A recurring problem quickly became obvious.
Traditional workout tracking treats training as binary.
You either completed the workout or you did not.
But real training did not behave that way.
A five-minute kettlebell session mattered.
Walking while carrying a child mattered.
Ten minutes of mobility mattered.
A few sets of bench press mattered.
A short bike ride mattered.
These pieces accumulated.
The Workout Bank was created to quantify that accumulated work.
Instead of requiring a conventional workout session, Adaptive Training could recognize useful training performed throughout the day.
The original ledger assigned simple credits to different forms of training.
Examples included:
- Strength set: 10 credits
- Hard strength set: 15 credits
- Conditioning: 5 credits per minute
- Walking: 1 credit per minute
- Mobility: 2 credits per minute
- Core set: 5 credits
- Jump rope: 100 skips = 5 credits
Daily accomplishment levels were introduced:
- Bronze — 38 credits
- Silver — 75 credits
- Gold — 150 credits
Weekly ranges followed:
- Maintenance — 450
- Progress — 675
- Excellent — 900
The Workout Bank was intentionally designed as an accounting system rather than a workout prescription.
Its purpose was to answer:
What useful training actually happened?
Not:
How can we maximize credits?
That distinction became increasingly important as Adaptive Training developed.