Looking to adjust your personal trainer experience? For most people, we recommend training with the personal trainer without making any changes to it. The default settings are scientifically backed to make real improvements to your brain. However, if you need to adjust something about your training to be able to continue with BrainHQ or to meet your personal goals, there are many ways to customize your experience.

If you want to better understand how to use the personal trainer, please see this article: How do I use the personal trainer? 

If you want to better understand how the personal trainer chooses what exercises to give you, please see this article: How does the personal trainer pick exercises?

In this article we will go over the following:

• How do I adjust how hard it is to complete a level of an exercise?
• How do I adjust how many levels I need to complete to move onto a new exercise?

How do I adjust how hard it is to complete a level of an exercise?

You can adjust how hard it is to complete a level of an exercise by changing the training challenge setting. The training challenge setting determines how many stars you need to get in one round of an exercise in order to pass and move on to the next level the next time you train. The default setting of “Medium” means you need three stars to pass. You can change the number of stars necessary by following these steps: 

1. Log in to your BrainHQ account at www.BrainHQ.com.
2. Click your name or the person icon in the top right corner of the screen and select profile from the drop-down menu.
3. Scroll down to “personal trainer settings” with the purple wrench.

1. Under “training challenge”, click the desired challenge setting. Easy is 2 stars, medium is 3, hard is 4, and expert is 5.

How do I adjust how many levels I need to complete to move onto a new exercise?

To adjust the number of completed levels needed to move onto a new exercise, you can change the training depth setting. By default, the personal trainer requires completing 10 levels of an exercise in order to pass it. You can change the number of levels necessary by following these steps:

1. Log in to your BrainHQ account at www.BrainHQ.com.
2. Click your name or the person icon in the top right corner of the screen and select profile from the drop-down menu.
3. Scroll down to “personal trainer settings” with the purple wrench.

4. Under “training depth”, click the desired depth setting. Moving the slider towards the "breadth" side changes the personal trainer to require passing fewer levels to pass an exercise, and moving the slider towards the "depth" side sets the Personal Trainer to require passing more levels to pass an exercise. 

Each dot on the slider represents a fixed number of level repetitions which you can see in the graphic below:

Remember that repetition is important, so it is recommended to keep the depth setting near the middle or further to the right, but you may choose to move it further to the left if you are finding that it is taking too long and you are losing motivation to train.

Still have questions?

To learn more about how the personal trainer works, check out this article: How does the personal trainer pick exercises? 

To learn more about how to choose which exercises the personal trainer gives you, check out this article: Designing a Custom Focus for the Personal Trainer  

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