Give the tool your actual weekly exercise-time budget and decide how those minutes should be distributed across training needs.
Most people have a fixed amount of time, not a fixed amount of motivation. A time budget turns that constraint into a design input. Instead of listing every possible training component, the user decides what the available minutes can realistically buy.
The reserve field is intentional. A plan that uses every available minute can be fragile when setup, travel, schedule drift or unexpected obligations consume time. Keeping a small reserve makes the allocation more realistic.
A normal week, an exam week, a travel week and a competition week can all use different minute budgets. The tool can be rerun without changing the underlying priorities, which makes it useful for planning rather than only for one-time calculation.
The category weights are also not prescriptions. They express trade-offs. If sport skill is critical for a particular phase, give it a higher weight; if it is temporarily secondary, lower it rather than forcing a fixed distribution.
Training plans often start with what someone wants to do and only later discover that the week cannot hold it. A time budget reverses that process. Start with reliable minutes, protect the most important categories, and allocate the remaining time rather than creating an ideal plan that depends on perfect availability.
A reserve creates room for setup, travel, schedule drift or an unexpected change. The reserve is not a fitness requirement. It is a planning buffer. Users who want full utilization can set it to zero, while users with unpredictable weeks can keep a larger buffer.
Spreading training across several days can make a weekly program feel lighter per session. Fewer longer sessions can simplify calendars and reduce the number of training days. The tool shows the budget first, then lets the user choose the style that fits their routine rather than treating one distribution as universally better.
A user may have 300 minutes available across five days. With strength at 8/10, sport skill at 5/10 and cardio at 6/10, the tool converts those weights into 30-minute blocks and shows the resulting share. When the user later loses 60 minutes, the same priority hierarchy can be reused to rebuild the plan.
The tool is particularly useful as a recurring planning aid. Rerun it when work hours, school, travel, sport practice or other fixed commitments change. The inputs can remain the same while only the weekly budget and day capacity change, making it easy to see what the new constraint costs.
A reserve makes the plan less brittle. You can also set it to zero when you intentionally want to allocate every available minute.
Yes. Set other categories to zero.
A weekly minute total is only practical when it can fit inside the daily session ceiling and number of available days.
Not necessarily. The tool deliberately uses your chosen priorities instead of assuming equal importance.