FR: tooltips for abbreviations

[ankushg]

I can never remember the abbreviations, even though I've read the articles multiple times 🙈

It'd be nice if there was a hover tooltip that could remind you what they all mean!

[redbar0n]

Here's what perplexity.ai said, it could be used as content for the tooltips (maybe minus the refs):

In the context of training, the acronyms MV, MEV, MAV, and MRV stand for the following:

• MV: Maintenance Volume, which is the minimum amount of training needed to maintain muscle mass, varying based on experience level. 2

• MEV: Minimum Effective Volume, referring to the minimum amount of training that stimulates muscle growth. 2

• MAV: Maximum Adaptive Volume, representing the range of training volume in which optimal muscle gains occur, fluctuating over time. 2 5

• MRV: Maximum Recoverable Volume, indicating the maximum amount of training volume an individual can handle while still allowing for adequate recovery, serving as a crucial factor in structuring training programs. 2 4 5

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But "Min MAV" and "Max MAV" (used in this app) is a bit confusing, since MAV is supposedly already a Max...

This explained it well though (and something like it should be included in the tooltip):

MAV stands for Maximum Adaptive Volume.

This is the range of volume in which the most optimal muscle gains happen. The MAV, differently from the other landmarks, fluctuates greatly over time, as you go through mesocycles. The reason being that your muscles adapt to a certain amount of volume and load over time, which implies that you can handle more volume as the weeks go by, until you reach a point in which your MAV clashes with your MRV (maximum recoverable volume). And when that happens, you deload, to then restart the mesocycle of volume progression again and again.

https://www.simonesmerilli.com/fitness/workout-volume

Maybe rename:

Min MAV -> Starting MAV
Max MAV -> Ending MAV

on the bar chart on these pages: https://ryanlefebvre.github.io/RP-Hypertrophy-Hub-Visualizer/#/Triceps

It should also be made clear in the tooltip that MV, MEV, MAV, and MRV refers to sets per week, not sets per workout, or reps. So in the tooltip examples above "training" should be replaced with "sets per week".