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Dumbbell upper/lower plan (8 weeks)
Beginner · 25–39 · Multi-week plan · 4 days a week
Four days a week, dumbbells only, with progression built in. Below is a research-backed prompt for ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini — copy it, paste the reply into sweatcue, and run the whole strength workout hands-free.
Session at a glance
This is how sweatcue structures the session once you paste it in — timed blocks with auto-starting rest and spoken cues. Figures are read from the prompt itself.
The prompt
Copy the complete prompt (it wraps the request below so the AI returns a clean, runnable session).
Why it's built this way
Training each muscle about twice a week, accumulating around 10 or more hard sets per muscle weekly, and progressing load or reps over time are the well-supported levers for building muscle as a beginner. An upper/lower split delivers that frequency in four sessions, and stopping 2-3 reps short of failure captures most of the growth while keeping technique safe at home.
Sources: Schoenfeld et al., J Sports Sci 2017 (weekly volume); Schoenfeld et al., Sports Med 2016 (training frequency); Refalo et al., Sports Med 2023 (proximity to failure / reps-in-reserve)
Run it hands-free in sweatcue
sweatcue is an AI workout dashboard: paste the AI's reply and it runs the whole session on screen and out loud — auto timers, spoken cues for every set, rest and rep, and your live numbers. The AI writes it; sweatcue runs it.
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