Target weight calculation seems off
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## Summary
I had a top set at RPE 8 programmed and backdowns at RPE 6.5. After I recorded my top set, the target weights for the 6.5 RPE sets was higher than the RPE 8 (they are the same number of reps).
## Context
Page:
/session/9993a8ac-b88e-43bd-ad9c-e3299d2b906b
## Steps to Reproduce
1) conventional deadlift, click target weight
2) go to the backdown sets
## Expected Behavior
Sets of 3 at RPE 6.5 have a lower target weight than for RPE 8
## Actual Behavior
The target weight was higher for sets of 3 at RPE 6.5 than RPE 8
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I changed the way the UI display works so this should not happen anymore!
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Hey there! Thanks for the report.
I don’t think this was an RPE calculation issue. I reviewed your session data and saw that this workout was percentage-based, not RPE-based, so RPE was not used to assign your deadlift target weights here. It was only used to estimate 1RM after the sets were logged.
From the session data, your deadlift work was programmed as:
- 1x3 @ 87%
- 3x3 @ 83%
So the backdown work was prescribed lighter than the top set. The targets saved for that session appear to have been:
- 285 for the 87% top set
- 272.5 for the 83% backdown sets
After the session was logged, those sets produced estimated 1RMs of about 330.2 and 333.7, which would support refreshed targets of about:
- 290 for 87%
- 277.5 for 83%
What I believe you were seeing was not the app assigning a heavier backdown target than the top set. The backdown prescription was lighter as expected. The confusing part came from a UI issue: after logging, the target weight shown on the two deadlift cards was refreshed in a way that caused the card-level target display to be shared across both deadlift entries. That made the display misleading, even though the individual set targets were still correct.
So this appears to be a display issue in the logger, not a bad RPE or load calculation. The advanced per-set configuration handles this setup more cleanly by grouping those sets under one exercise entry, and using that option for backdown work will avoid this behavior. On our side, I’m planning to update the UI so each same-exercise card calculates its own displayed target from its own prescription instead of sharing a single card-level value.