Your exercise library holds the exercises you want to coach in detail: the description, video, and tags athletes and coaches see, plus the load rules and injury rules that shape each athlete's version of a workout. This guide covers adding, editing, importing, and exporting exercises.

A shared naming convention keeps instructions clear when several coaches write workouts. A good starting point is Towards Standardization of the Nomenclature of Resistance Training Exercises (Jackson, Brown, Coburn, Judelson and Cullen-Carroll), which recommends the pattern specification, equipment, exercise.

Unilateral or bilateral, bar placement, grip, stance, rack position.

Name it, and choose between full names ("Barbell") and abbreviations ("BB").

Usually straightforward; describe a movement in more detail only when it needs it.

Decide whether to prefer explicit descriptions over proper nouns and slang, such as "Straight Leg Deadlift" instead of "Romanian Deadlift".

Decide what athletes are expected to know. Strictly, a "Back Squat" is a "High-Bar Back-Rack Barbell Squat", but most coaches assume high-bar and only name the low-bar variation.

Use the description for the setup, cues, and what to watch for. Athletes see it with the exercise's video when they open the exercise in their workout.

Exercises live in the Library. Open Library in the sidebar and click the Exercises tab (1). The table lists your exercises with their tags and a video icon when they have one. Search by name or tag, or use the toolbar filters.

To add one:

The exercise is added to the table and opens in its editor, ready for the rest of its details. CSV Import (3) and CSV Export (4) are covered below.

To add many at once, choose With Flex under Add Exercise instead. Flex can add the exercises your programs already use, the ones in a spreadsheet you attach, or a set for what you train, with descriptions and tags. It shows you the list before it adds anything. While the library is small, a Build your exercise library with Flex notice above the table offers the same thing. In an exercise's editor, Write with Flex asks Flex to write that exercise's description. See Flex.

Adding, importing, exporting, and deleting exercises needs edit access to the library; without it, the buttons are hidden and an exercise opens marked View only.

When you type an exercise name in the block builder, the suggestions come from your library: type at least three letters and FYTT matches exercises whose name or tags contain them. Pick a suggestion to use that exercise, with its description, video, and rules. See Blocks for building sets.

Each exercise belongs to one library location:

The builder suggests exercises from the institution, the team you're working in, and your personal library. An exercise saved to one team doesn't show up while you're building for another team. To make it available everywhere, create it in the institution library. When your institution has more than one team, the table shows each exercise's location and you can filter by it.

Click an exercise's row, or View details, to open it. The panel saves each change as you make it, so there's no Save button. Rows you haven't filled in yet appear as chips next to the Details heading; click a chip to open that row.

To delete the exercise, click Delete exercise at the bottom of the panel and confirm. This removes it along with its load rules, substitutes, and injury rules.

Tags organize the library and make exercises faster to find: the library search and the block builder's suggestions both match tags as well as names, and the Tags filter narrows the table to a tag. Manage the tags themselves on the Library's Tags tab.

Tags only help if every coach uses them the same way.

Use broad tags for major groupings ("Strength") and specific ones only where they help ("Olympic Lifts").

Add sport tags ("Basketball") and outcome tags ("Change of Direction") where they match how coaches search.

Most coaches use one to three tags per exercise, and some use more as search words. Pick one habit and keep it: a tag on nearly everything filters nothing.

Athletes see the exercise's video, with its description, when they open the exercise in their workout. Uploaded videos are only viewable within your organization.

In the Video row, drop a file onto the box, click browse to choose one, or paste a YouTube link. Uploads can be mp4, mpeg, or mov files up to 300 MB.

A .mov file is converted to mp4 after it uploads so it plays on every athlete's device. The row shows Converting… with a progress bar until it's done, and you can close the panel while it finishes. If the conversion fails, the row says so; upload the file again, or convert it to mp4 first.

To remove a video, click Remove video and confirm.

Load rules turn a percentage set of this exercise into a weight for each athlete. Open Load rules in the exercise panel, enter a percent, choose a Weight metric, and click Add rule.

When a set prescribes a percentage, FYTT works down the list and uses the first metric the athlete has a value for, applied at that rule's percent. For example, with 100% of Incline Bench Press 1RM first and 80% of Bench Press 1RM second, an athlete with only a 200 lb bench press gets 70% of 160 lb (112 lb) for a 70% set. If the athlete has none of the metrics, no weight is prescribed and the set shows as a percentage only. Drag a rule by its grip to change its priority.

Load rules can only point at weight metrics. If your institution has none yet, the section says No weight metrics yet and links to Metrics.

This section decides what an injured athlete gets instead of this exercise. See Injuries for recording injuries, and Exercise modifiers & substitutions for how swaps and modifiers work together.

To add many exercises at once, click CSV Import on the Exercises tab. The Import exercises dialog walks you through it:

The sample's columns cover the name, description, video, whether the exercise can be done one side at a time (sided, true or false), and one column per body part (false for a part an injury there shouldn't rule out). A row whose name already exists in that library updates that exercise. Tags, load rules, and substitutes aren't imported; add them in the editor.

Click CSV Export above the table. When the file is ready, the Export ready dialog opens; click Download file. The export lists the exercises in the team you're working in and the institution library, with columns for exercise_name, description, youtube_url, and public_file_url. Links to uploaded videos in the file expire after 30 minutes.

Tick exercises in the table, click Delete, and confirm in the Delete these exercises? dialog, or use Delete exercise in an exercise's panel. Deleting can't be undone. Workouts that already use the exercise keep its name. To organize the rest of your training content, see Training library.