elbow
Tennis elbow and golfer's elbow are load-tolerance problems in a tendon. RepRoute's flag is coarse: it takes 324 of the 342 pressing and pulling movements out of your plan and refills the gaps from your legs and core.
Straight-bar curls, kipping pull-ups and high-rep gripping work are the usual aggravators for an irritated elbow tendon.
The elbow tag sits on the same four patterns as the shoulder tag: horizontal push, overhead push, rows and vertical pulls. Flagging an elbow REMOVES 324 of the 342 movements in them, 95% — and every elbow-tagged exercise in the catalogue lives in those four patterns, so that is the whole 324 of them. It is the second-widest flag the engine has, behind the shoulder's 375. There is no "neutral grip only" setting, because the catalogue can't tell grips apart.
Eighteen pressing and pulling movements survive it, and the set is not intuitive — bodyweight work sits alongside several loaded presses: Arnold Press, Band Pull Apart, Band-Assisted Pull-up, Barbell OHP, Barbell Row, Dead Hang, Decline Push-Up, Dumbbell Bench Press, Dumbbell Row, Incline Push-Up, Inverted Row, Knee Push-up, Pike Push-up, Push Press, Push-up, Scapular Pull-up, Seated DB Press and Wall Push-up. Treat that list as "not tagged", not as "cleared for your tendon" — if one of them bites, swap it.
Days emptied by the strip are refilled with up to three exercises from the patterns still legal for you — squats, hinges, lunges, core. Your lower body is untouched.
For a grumbling tendon that only objects to certain movements, the flag is almost certainly heavier-handed than you want. Skip it, and use Swap in the session on the specific lifts that bite. That keeps the rest of your pressing and pulling in the plan.
324 of the 342 movements in these patterns carry the elbow tag and are removed. Tagging is per exercise, not per pattern, so 18 survive — they are named below.
These 18 carry no elbow tag, so the flag leaves them in your plan. Not tagged is not the same as cleared for your injury — if one of them hurts, use Swap on it or skip the set.
These carry no elbow tag — verified against the live catalogue, not picked by hand — so they survive the strip and are what emptied days get refilled from. They are not one-for-one replacements — the engine removes and rebuilds, it does not substitute like for like.
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Physically, often yes. But RepRoute's flag can't express that — 90 of 94 rows and 16 of 19 vertical pulls carry the elbow tag, so the flag removes nearly all of them regardless of grip. If you want to keep pulling with a grip that works, leave the flag off and swap the individual movements.
Squats, lunges, hip-hinges and core work — none of which carry the elbow tag. In practice a flagged elbow turns your week into lower-body-and-core training until you clear it.
Until you clear the flag in Settings → Injuries. RepRoute won't quietly re-introduce a movement you've flagged — but note that clearing the flag doesn't restore the exercises already stripped from your current plan. Generate a new plan for that.
Free plan, no credit card. Flag the elbow in onboarding and the conflicting movements are stripped from your plan straight away.
