A lower target usually means Kenso is responding to something in your recent training, not making a mistake. The most common causes are a scheduled or manual deload, an auto-regulated strategy reacting to how a recent set felt, or a change you or the program made on purpose.

Common reasons

  • You're in a deload. If Deload is toggled on for the exercise or the whole session, targets are intentionally reduced and progression is paused for that session. See Deloads.
  • An auto-regulated strategy reacted to a hard session. Strategies like RPE Target, Score-based, and Top Set + Backoff read effort as well as reps. A session that felt harder than intended can lower the next target rather than hold it flat.
  • You swapped exercises or changed the rep range. A different exercise or a wider/narrower rep range changes what the target is calculated from, which can read as a drop even though nothing "went wrong."
  • An Auto-Progress cycle reached its deload week. Programs with Auto-Progress enabled can end a cycle with a lighter week by design. See Auto-progress cycles.
  • Someone typed a different number. Manual edits to a set's weight don't change future targets on their own, but they can look like a drop if you're comparing against what you expected.

Where to see why

The exercise card shows a Deload badge when that exercise is in a deload for the session. The exercise's ⋮ menu → Strategy shows which strategy is active, which is the fastest way to check whether an auto-regulated strategy is behind a change.

What to do about it

A drop from an auto-regulated strategy or a deload is usually working as intended: it's the app pulling back so you can recover and come back to advancing. If a target looks wrong for a reason none of the above explain, you can always override it by typing your own weight for that set; that doesn't change anything about how future sessions are calculated.

Good to know

  • A single unusual session (one very light or very hard set) doesn't necessarily move future targets right away. Kenso treats a one-off differently from a pattern.
  • If you think a specific exercise's targets have gotten stuck too low, changing its strategy or clearing a deload toggle is the fastest fix. See Choosing a strategy per exercise.