How PowerBell helps

Guiding principles

Even when strict rules are applied, possibilities are almost endless, most of them are noise. Many of the benefits lie in the core and it may sound boring but results in a liberating feeling of knowing that it won't change when you are not looking.

Here are PowerBell's ones:

• Time restriction. Between 15 minutes and 45 minutes with rare exceptions going up to 60 minutes. These time intervals allows you to practice almost daily, get many of the benefits of a functional body with little downside as soreness doesn't even show up.
• Intensity. At a practice level, there is always a linear transition going from fast exercises - using a bell around 80% of your capacity to promote mitochondrial development -, heavy exercises - using a bell around 90% of your capacity to promote muscle strength-, steady exercises - using a bell around 65% your capacity to promote cardiovascular health. (this is not health advice in any form, please seek medical advice when and where needed)
• Good form. Above all, focus on the movement, and do one less rep when you feel like you can't perform it well enough, take a moment to recover and continue with your practice.
• Rest is a priority. Active resting like going on a walk, bike ride, sun bath, read challenging information among other many activities you can choose over sitting on the couch are all good and beneficial for the practice. This time allows you to take a step back, recognize your inefficiencies and how to fix them.
• Boredom. It's better to similar practices, even repeat some than looking like juggler at the circus.

Weekly Practices

Planning requires a lot of time on an activity that has to be done over and over and it has to be done diligently to be realistic, not overoptimistic, take in account what you have been practicing lately and not repeat it, to avoid preferences bias and actually do the exercises you need to do although you don't like them.

Variation has many degrees, some times you vary the effort, sometimes the exercises and sometimes the intensity. Keeping track of what has varied and what needs to vary in future practices is a tricky business. On top of that you have to be conscious about not over training some body parts and leave others to the fate of luck.

Truth is that you can more accurately meet your needs than we can do but most of the time our proposals are a good fit and far better than doing nothing at all due to indecisiveness.

A catalogue full of choices

There are 296 practices to choose from when the weekly plan is not what you want. Based on the guiding principles, the practices that are a good fit for every situation; entire practices or specific purpose ones, you pick it.

Keep track

This is the hardest part of the whole experience Planning is easy, the more practices you write down, the more motivated you feel to do more; in a way it provides a false sense of accomplishments as if you would have already accomplished what you have planned.

Keeping track of your practices, and things in general, is quite boring and you stop doing it long before it can provide you with any insights. Like you, I have experienced this first hand and is one of the main reasons why PowerBell has this features from day 1.

When you finished practicing, an award is a given to you that indicates the progress you have reached on that given practice. A weekly progress is displayed in the home screen so you can quickly view how are you doing. The monthly overview helps you spot inconsistencies and provides enough information for you to retrospect on. The yearly podium is just for show off.