rotator cuff
There's no separate rotator-cuff flag in RepRoute — you flag the shoulder, and that's the right call. Doing so removes 332 of the 342 pressing and pulling movements from your plan and rebuilds the emptied days around your legs and core.
Overhead pressing, behind-the-neck work and wide-grip benching are the usual complaints when the cuff is irritated. RepRoute's injury map has no rotator-cuff entry of its own — flag the shoulder region instead. It's the same joint and the same adaptation.
What the shoulder flag does, precisely: every exercise carrying the shoulder tag is REMOVED from your plan. Across horizontal push, overhead push, rows and vertical pulls that's 332 of 342 movements — including all 82 overhead-pressing variants. Emptied days are refilled with up to three exercises from your remaining patterns: squats, hinges, lunges, core.
Ten pressing and pulling movements are not tagged and therefore stay: Band Pull Apart, Band-Assisted Pull-up, Barbell Row, Chin-Up, Close Grip Push-up, Dumbbell Row, Incline Push-Up, Knee Push-up, Push-up and Wall Push-up. With an irritated cuff, several of those may still be a bad idea — the flag is not a clearance. Swap or skip anything that pinches.
Be clear about one thing: RepRoute does not add cuff accessory work for you. There is no add-an-accessory path in the plan engine at all, and face pulls in particular can't even be generated — the exercise carries no movement pattern, so the generator has no slot to put it in. If you want direct cuff work, add it yourself around the session.
If your pressing is only painful overhead, the flag is heavier than you need. Leave it off and use Swap on the individual movement during the workout.
332 of the 342 movements in these patterns carry the shoulder tag and are removed. Tagging is per exercise, not per pattern, so 10 survive — they are named below.
These 10 carry no shoulder 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 shoulder 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.
quadriceps
hamstrings
quadriceps
glutes
The shoulder. It's the region the exercise catalogue actually tags, and it's the one that drives the adaptation. Picking it gives you everything this page describes.
No. The plan engine has no path that adds accessory exercises, and face pulls specifically can't be programmed at all — the exercise has no movement pattern, so the generator can never reach it. Any direct cuff work is on you to add.
That's between you and a clinician. What RepRoute can tell you is what the flag does: with the shoulder flagged, 332 of the 342 pressing and pulling movements are gone from your plan until you clear it, and the ten that remain are the gentlest ones — not a medical all-clear.
Free plan, no credit card. Flag the shoulder in onboarding and the conflicting movements are stripped from your plan straight away.
