shoulder
A shoulder flag is a blunt instrument, and we'd rather tell you that than pretend it's a scalpel. RepRoute pulls every pressing and pulling movement out of your plan and rebuilds the emptied days around your legs and core — so you keep training while the joint settles.
Overhead pressing, dips, and behind-the-neck work are the movements people most often can't tolerate with an angry shoulder. RepRoute doesn't diagnose that — it just stops putting those movements in front of you.
Here's precisely what happens when you flag the shoulder. Every exercise in your plan is checked against the shoulder tag in the exercise catalogue, and the ones carrying it are REMOVED. That tag sits on every pressing and pulling pattern — bench and push-ups, overhead press, rows, pull-ups and pulldowns alike — so a shoulder flag takes out all of your upper-body push and pull work. Not some of it. All of it.
Any training day left empty by that is then rebuilt: the generator refills it with up to three exercises drawn from the patterns still available to you — squat, hinge, lunge, core. So you don't end the week with a blank day. You end it with a legs-and-core day where a push day used to be.
If you can still press pain-free at some angles and it's only overhead work that hurts, don't flag the shoulder — the flag is all-or-nothing across pushing and pulling. Start the session and use Swap on the individual movement instead. That's the finer tool, and it leaves the rest of your plan intact.
Whole movement patterns, not individual exercises — every exercise in these patterns carries the shoulder tag.
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.
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That's a question for a clinician, not an app — RepRoute isn't a medical tool and won't pretend to be. What it can do is stop prescribing the movements you can't tolerate, so "keep training around it" is at least on the table instead of "stop entirely".
Every pressing and pulling movement: horizontal push (bench, push-ups), overhead push, rows, and vertical pulls. In the catalogue, all four of those patterns carry the shoulder tag, so the flag clears the lot. What's left — squats, hinges, lunges, core — stays, and is used to refill any day the strip emptied.
Probably not. The flag can't tell overhead press from a chest-supported row — it removes both. If it's one movement, leave the flag off, start the workout, and hit Swap on that exercise to trade it for another in the same pattern.
Clear the flag any time in Settings → Injuries. That stops future removals — but it doesn't put the already-removed movements back into your current plan. Generate a new plan when you want your pressing and pulling back.
Free plan, no credit card. Flag the shoulder in onboarding and the conflicting movements are stripped from your plan straight away.
