Want to have a better understanding of how the personal trainer works? The personal trainer is there to guide your training with BrainHQ based on scientific research and your specific brain history, including your personal performance within BrainHQ so far. For most people, we recommend training on the personal trainer without making any changes to it. The personal trainer is specifically designed to meet the training goals of most adults who want to improve their cognitive abilities.

In this article we'll be going over how the personal trainer chooses your training schedule.  This includes:

• How does the personal trainer choose exercises?
• How does the personal trainer choose levels?

How does the personal trainer choose exercises?

At any given point in your training, the personal trainer will have six exercises in your active set, which means you will only get levels from those exercises. This active set is chosen from the 29 BrainHQ exercises, with many considerations: 

• If you are a newer user, you will likely have mostly Attention and Brain Speed exercises in your active set, because these skills are the foundation of all of the skills within BrainHQ.
• The personal trainer takes into account your answers to the initial questionnaire about what you are most interested in improving.
• Freeze Frame is not usually included in the active set, because the levels are too long compared to those of other exercises.
• If you want to change which exercises are given to you by the personal trainer, you can do so by setting a custom focus, which is explained in this article: Designing a Custom Focus for the Personal Trainer 

The personal trainer will continue giving you levels of the same six exercises until you have completed ten levels of an exercise, at which point that exercise will be replaced with a new one. To change the number of levels needed to move on from an exercise, adjust the training breadth by following the steps in this article: How do I adjust my personal trainer experience? Keep in mind that repetition is an important part of strengthening your brain, so try to stick with an exercise for the full ten levels if you can!

How does the personal trainer choose levels?

Each exercise has many levels of varying difficulties. From your active set of six exercises, the personal trainer chooses what level to give you based on which levels you have already done and how well you performed. 

By default you need at least 3 stars to retire a level and move onto a new one the next time you train. To change the number of stars needed, adjust the training challenge by following the steps in this article: How do I adjust my personal trainer experience? 

Remember, if a level is hard and you have to repeat it multiple times, that means you are training at the right level, and you are pushing your brain to improve!

Still have questions?

To learn more about the personal trainer, check out this article: How do you use the personal trainer?

To learn more about how each exercise works, check out these articles: Exercise Instructions

And as always, if you have any remaining questions don’t hesitate to submit a request and our customer delight team will respond shortly: help form