Understanding your training
How your LatticePlan is built, how it adapts, why weeks vary, and what your analytics mean.
How your plan is built from you
Your LatticePlan is built from your answers to the setup quiz: your goal and focus, your experience and recent grades, the equipment you have, and how much time you can train. There's no separate fitness test to pass first; your answers are enough to generate a plan tailored to you.
We then model that against a large dataset of real climbers' training, so what you get reflects what has actually worked for people in your position.
Curious why there's no assessment step? See Why there are no assessments yet.
How your plan adapts to you
Your LatticePlan isn't fixed – it responds to your training in two different ways.
After each workout, fine-tuning the effort. When you finish a workout you rate how hard each exercise felt. If something felt harder or easier than intended, we nudge the load up, hold it, or ease it back the next time you do it. Small, per-workout adjustments to keep your intensity in the right place.
Each week, adjusting your volume. Your weekly check-in shapes how much you'll train the following week, whether it progresses, holds steady, eases back, or includes a deload or rest.
So the effort ratings fine-tune individual workouts, and the check-in steers your bigger-picture load.
Does marking sets as incomplete change my plan? Not on its own. If a week was genuinely too much, the best way to tell your plan is through the weekly check-in – that's what adjusts your upcoming training.
Why this week looks like this
Training works in phases, so your weeks aren't all meant to look the same. Some build you up, some consolidate, and some ease off so you can absorb the work and come back stronger. These phases, sometimes called mesocycles, progress strategically towards your goals. Each phase has a purpose and a specific role in helping you build fitness, develop capacity, and peak at the right time.
If a week looks lighter, that's usually by design, not the plan losing track of you.
What your analytics mean
Your analytics give you a feel for how much work you're doing and how it's trending over time. The main figures are Training Load, Training Time and Workouts.
Training Load is a measure of how demanding your training is. It takes account of how hard your sessions felt and how long you spent working, among other things, so treat it as a sense of overall demand rather than a number to chase.
Why there are no assessments yet
If you've used our older plans, you'll remember completing assessments first. LatticePlan is designed to get you training straight away, building your plan from your quiz answers and our dataset rather than an upfront testing phase.
Assessments are coming – in-app testing is on the way, but it isn't part of LatticePlan today.