How the weekly routine works

Where the weekly routine comes from, why exercises repeat, and how it advances as your baby grows.

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Your weekly routine is a ready-made session of exercises matched to your baby's stage. You don't build it or pick a level. Open it, follow the exercises in order, aim for about 4 sessions a week. As your baby grows, the routine moves on by itself.

The adaptive weekly routine is part of the Movement Mastery Method. The Blueprint includes 5 starter routines and the full exercise library, but not this stage-by-stage weekly routine. If you want the difference spelled out, see does the Blueprint include weekly routines?.

Where to find it

  1. Tap Routines in the bottom bar (it's the calendar tab).
  2. On that page, tap your baby's Weekly Routine card at the top.
  3. You land on the current week: a list of exercises grouped into phases, with a session length and exercise count up top.

If you have more than one child, the routine follows whichever child is selected. Switch children from the dashboard or their profiles.

How it's built

The app works out your baby's age in weeks from their birthdate, and that age is what the routine matches. There's no setup and nothing to recalculate. The week is worked out fresh every time the page loads, so it advances on its own as your baby ages into a new stage.

For the youngest babies there are a few flows to choose from on a given day, shown as coloured pills near the title:

  • Gentle Flow - soft movements and calming touch.
  • Active Flow - more energetic, playful practice.
  • Calm Flow - relaxing stretches and soothing connection.

All three appear in roughly the first two months, then it narrows to two, then to a single flow as your baby gets older. They're different pacings of the same stage-appropriate work, not different programs. Tap a pill to read what it's for, and pick whichever suits the moment. The one outlined is the suggestion for today.

Why the same exercises come back

This is on purpose. Babies learn a skill by repeating it, so familiar moves return across days and weeks, most of all in the early months when the pool of exercises is small. Recognising exercises means it's working, not stuck. If you genuinely think the week isn't advancing, see why hasn't my routine updated?.

Tracking your sessions

At the bottom of the routine there's a Mark Complete button and a row of circles. Tap it after a session and one circle fills in. Four a week is the goal; circles 5 to 7 are a bonus if you do extra. Tapped it by mistake? Tap today's filled circle to undo it.

There's no per-exercise checkbox. To save individual moves instead, tap the heart on any exercise in the Exercise Library. More on that in tracking progress and marking things complete.

Saving and printing

To follow along off your phone, tap Download printable PDF on the routine. It saves the current week as a PDF you can print or hand to a partner or caregiver. (Your browser's own Print button prints a blank page, so use the PDF button.) Full details in printing or exporting your routine.

Filtering exercises to your baby's stage

The routine is already matched to your baby, so you don't need to filter it. If the wider Exercise Library feels too advanced, open it and turn on the Suitable for [your baby] toggle. That trims the list to exercises that fit this week. There's no separate age slider; the toggle does the age matching for you.

If a new week hasn't shown up

Because the week is worked out from the birthdate each time the page loads, a missing new week is nearly always a stale screen. Pull down to refresh, or fully close the app and reopen it. If it still won't move after a couple of weeks, check the birthdate first, then see why hasn't my routine updated?.

To revisit an earlier week, use the Exercise Library and your Favourites; the routine view only ever shows the current week. See where are previous weeks' routines?.

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