rotator cuff
There's no separate rotator-cuff flag in RepRoute — you flag the shoulder, and that's the right call. Doing so removes every pressing and pulling movement 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. That tag sits on all four pressing and pulling patterns — horizontal push, overhead push, rows, vertical pulls — so the flag clears all of your upper-body push and pull work at once. Emptied days are refilled with up to three exercises from your remaining patterns: squats, hinges, lunges, core.
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.
Whole movement patterns, not individual exercises — every exercise in these patterns carries the shoulder tag.
No automatic adaptation for this region
RepRoute records this injury, but its exercise catalogue only carries joint-safety data for 7 regions — shoulder, elbow, hip, lower back, knee, ankle and wrist. Flagging this one will not change your generated plan. Use Swap during a session to trade any movement that aggravates it, and review your plan yourself rather than assuming it was adjusted.
These carry no shoulder tag, 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
abdominals
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, no pressing or pulling of any kind appears in your plan until you clear it.
Free plan, no credit card. Your plan won't auto-adjust for this region — but Swap is one tap, in every session, and it's yours from day one.
