sciatica
There's no separate sciatica flag — you flag the lower back, which is the region the engine actually acts on. That removes every hinge, carry and core movement 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. In the catalogue that's every hip-hinge, every loaded carry, and every core pattern — flexion, anti-extension and anti-rotation. Planks and Pallof presses go along with the sit-ups; the tag doesn't distinguish between them.
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.
Whole movement patterns, not individual exercises — every exercise in these patterns carries the lower back 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 lower back 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
quadriceps
chest
shoulders
The lower back. That's the region the exercise catalogue tags, and it's what drives the removal described on this page.
Because every core pattern in the catalogue carries the lower_back tag — anti-extension and anti-rotation work included. The flag can't tell a plank from a weighted crunch, so it removes both.
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. Your plan won't auto-adjust for this region — but Swap is one tap, in every session, and it's yours from day one.
