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# GLOSSARY.md Format
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`GLOSSARY.md` is the canonical language for this teaching workspace. All explainers, exercises, and learning records should adhere to its terminology. Building it is itself part of learning: compressing a concept into a tight definition is evidence the user understands it.
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## Structure
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```md
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# {Topic} Glossary
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{One or two sentence description of the topic this glossary covers.}
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## Terms
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**Hypertrophy**:
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Muscle growth driven by mechanical tension and metabolic stress over repeated training sessions.
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_Avoid_: Bulking, getting big
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**Progressive overload**:
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Systematically increasing the demand on a muscle over time — via load, volume, or intensity.
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_Avoid_: Pushing harder, levelling up
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**RPE (Rate of Perceived Exertion)**:
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A 1–10 self-rating of how hard a set felt, where 10 is failure and 8 means two reps left in the tank.
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_Avoid_: Effort score, intensity rating
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```
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## Rules
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- **Add a term only when the user understands it.** The glossary is a record of compressed knowledge, not a dictionary the user reads to learn. If the user has just been introduced to a concept, wait until they can use it correctly before promoting it here.
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- **Be opinionated.** When several words exist for the same concept, pick the best one and list the rest as aliases to avoid. This is how language compresses.
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- **Keep definitions tight.** One or two sentences. Define what the term IS, not what it does or how to do it.
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- **Use the glossary's own terms inside definitions.** Once a term is in the glossary, prefer it everywhere — including inside other definitions. This is what makes complex terms easier to grasp later.
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- **Group under subheadings** when natural clusters emerge (e.g. `## Anatomy`, `## Programming`). A flat list is fine when terms cohere.
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- **Flag ambiguities explicitly.** If a term is used loosely in the wider field, note the resolution: "In this workspace, 'set' always means a working set — warm-ups are tracked separately."
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- **Revise as understanding deepens.** A definition the user wrote in week one may be wrong by week six. Update in place; do not leave stale entries.
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