sciatica
There's no separate sciatica flag — you flag the lower back, which is the region the engine actually acts on. That removes 209 of the 219 hinge, carry and core movements from your plan and refills the emptied days from what remains.
Heavy deadlifts, loaded carries and repeated lumbar flexion under fatigue are the usual aggravators when sciatic symptoms are active. RepRoute's injury map has no sciatica entry — flag the lower back instead. That's the tag the exercise catalogue carries.
What that flag does: every exercise tagged lower_back is REMOVED from your plan — 209 of the 219 hinge, carry and core movements. Hinging goes almost entirely (145 of 146), loaded spinal flexion goes completely (47 of 47), and most carries go (3 of 5).
Ten movements survive, mostly bracing work: Bird Dog, Dumbbell Farmers Walk, Extended Plank, Farmer's Walk, Glute Bridge, Kneeling Plank, Pallof Press, Pallof Press With Rotation, Plank and Push Up to Side Plank. Not tagged is not the same as safe for sciatic symptoms — if a plank reproduces the leg pain, swap it and tell your clinician.
Emptied days are refilled with up to three exercises from what's still legal — squats, presses, rows. There's no depth cap, no load reduction, no intermediate step. The engine removes or it doesn't.
Sciatic symptoms are a clinical matter before they're a programming one. Shooting leg pain, numbness, weakness or any loss of bladder control are red flags — see someone. RepRoute is a planning tool and makes no claim to be anything else.
209 of the 219 movements in these patterns carry the lower back tag and are removed. Tagging is per exercise, not per pattern, so 10 survive — they are named below.
These 10 carry no lower back 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 lower back 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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The lower back. That's the region the exercise catalogue tags, and it's what drives the removal described on this page.
Only the loaded-flexion half of it. All 47 loaded-spinal-flexion movements carry the lower_back tag, but the plank and Pallof-press families largely don't — ten hinge, carry and core movements survive the flag in total. Check what you're given; the tagging is per exercise, not per category.
Shooting leg pain, numbness, weakness, or loss of bladder control are not training-load issues — they're clinical. Go and get them looked at. RepRoute is not a medical tool.
Free plan, no credit card. Flag the lower back in onboarding and the conflicting movements are stripped from your plan straight away.
