Why your rest timer gets longer after a harder set

A lifter grinds out a set to complete failure, taps done, and the timer starts counting down from the same two minutes it always does. Two minutes is plenty after an easy set. It's nowhere near enough after one that wrecked you. A flat rest period can't tell the difference.

How Yield scales it

Yield adjusts your rest period based on how hard the set you just finished actually was. A set with plenty left in the tank gets the normal baseline rest, unchanged. A set taken to failure can stretch that rest to roughly two and a half times as long. Everything in between scales smoothly, not as a sudden jump.

That scaling is grounded in a real comparison: a comfortable rest of around two minutes becoming roughly five minutes after a failed set, the kind of adjustment lifters already make instinctively without an app telling them to.

What it depends on

This only works when the app knows how hard the set was, which comes from your own effort feedback after the set. If that answer hasn't come in yet, or you skip it, the timer uses the standard baseline rest instead of guessing. The scaling is only as good as your own read on the set, since effort here is self-reported, not measured directly.

Part of starting your first month with Yield.

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