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Upper/lower tension build (6 weeks)
Intermediate · 25–39 · Multi-week plan · 4 days a week
A 4-day upper/lower split built around controlled mechanical tension and progressive overload. 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
This reflects mainstream hypertrophy evidence: roughly 10+ hard sets per muscle per week tends to grow more muscle than less, gains happen across a wide 6-15+ rep range as long as sets are taken close to failure, and training each muscle ~2x/week (which an upper/lower split delivers) is a sensible default. 'Mechanical tension' here means controlled, full-range, near-failure work and progressive overload - the practical levers - not a separate magic technique. Longer rest on compounds supports your working volume.
Sources: Schoenfeld et al., J Sports Sci 2017 (weekly volume); Schoenfeld et al., Sports 2021 (load & rep range); 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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