Kit Planner

The 47 movements in the generator's own library, each one already tagged with the movement pattern it belongs to and the muscles it pays weekly sets into. On top of that sits a map written by hand for this page, carrying two extra facts per movement: the equipment it genuinely needs to run, and whether it can take external resistance at all. A goblet squat needs one dumbbell or one kettlebell, and it loads. A barbell back squat needs a bar and something to take it off, and it loads. A push-up needs a floor, and it does not load.

Each of the 17 patterns gets one of three states. None means your kit runs no movement in that pattern. Partial means you can train it but cannot add resistance, because every version your kit allows is unloadable bodyweight. Covered means at least one version your kit can run takes external resistance you can add to. Partial scores one point, covered scores two, so the whole grid is out of 29 rather than 34: the library holds no loaded lunge, no loaded plank, no loaded side plank, no loaded hip-flexion movement and no loaded conditioning movement, so those five patterns can only ever read partial. That is a limit of the library, not of your kit, and it is fine. You progress those by lengthening the lever, slowing the tempo or going faster, not by adding weight.

For every item you do not own, the grid is recomputed as if you did. The score is patterns opened per euro: the number of patterns you cannot train at all today that the item makes trainable, divided by the midpoint of a typical price band. Nothing else is in that function. Not your budget, not your space, not your goal, and not who happens to sell the thing. Most items open no new pattern, because only three of the 17 are locked behind equipment in the first place, so most rows score zero on that metric. Among those the order is decided by the tiebreak, coverage points gained per euro, which you can read off the Points and Typical columns yourself. Ties after that break on points gained, then on the fixed order the items are written in, so the same kit always produces the same list.

Furniture is free. A sturdy chair, a step, a table edge and a loaded backpack are treated as things you already have, because six movements in the library run on exactly those. One of the six is the backpack row, and a backpack you can put books in is real external resistance, so horizontal pulling reads covered even on an empty kit. It is the one furniture movement that loads, and it tops out somewhere around 20 kg, which the grid cannot see. Rings count as a hanging point on their own, so untick them if you have nowhere to hang them. A rack is read as a rack or a pair of stands, which is why it does not count as a pull-up bar even though many racks have one. And each movement is read the way the library writes it: a face pull is a cable face pull, so a band face pull does not score. That costs you nothing, because the band pull-apart is already in the library and already scores the loaded version of that pattern.

The price bands are wide on purpose. A rack spans €120 to €500 depending on whether it is a pair of stands or a four-post cage, and a rower spans €300 to €1200. That means rows with the same pattern count are usually inside each other's noise. Treat the order as a shortlist rather than a verdict, and if the second row is the thing you will actually use, buy the second row. The coverage states themselves are exact given the map, but the map is a judgement call in maybe six of its 47 rows, and those are named above.

How strong you will get. A coverage grid counts patterns, not kilograms, so a barbell and a rack barely move the score and will still out-train everything else on the list over two years. If your goal is a heavy squat, buy the bar and ignore the ranking. It also will not tell you whether you will use the thing, and that is the variable that actually decides the outcome. The rower is the most resold item in home fitness for a reason, and no grid can price your motivation.

Two of the 17 patterns are in the library but are never asked for by a session template. Hip flexion is never requested at all, and power turns up only as a substitute when a hinge or a conditioning slot has nothing left to give, which in practice almost never happens because both always have a bodyweight option. Both are bodyweight-covered from the very start, so they add two points and two trainable patterns to every kit including an empty one. If you want the stricter number, read it out of 15 patterns and 27 points instead of 17 and 29.

Two items score zero for structural reasons rather than because they are bad. A rower or bike adds a movement but no pattern and no load, because the library's conditioning work is all bodyweight and an erg is measured in pace rather than kilos. A jump rope is not even on the list, because nothing in the library requires one.

The grid, the ranking and the tie-breaks are finished before any link is considered, and no partner appears in that function. Budget does not reorder the list, and neither does who sells what. A link is written under the answer only when the item at the top of your own ranking is one a partner stocks, and the coached-machine link only when you have said that is how you want to train. The free line always comes first, and when your kit already covers the gap there is no link at all.