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Training library

Create a library of content that can be utilized to rapidly build and deploy training instructions

Written by Todd Miller

The library holds the training you reuse: programs, progressions, workouts, blocks and exercises, plus the tags that organize them. Anything you build once here can be dropped into programs, plans and the calendar again and again. This guide covers the library's tabs, where content lives, tags, and copying content between teams.

The Training Library

Opening the library

Click Library in the left sidebar. The Training Library opens on Programs; the tabs across the top (1) switch between content types. Each tab is a table you can search, sort and filter with the funnel button (2). Click a row to open it. Opening the library needs edit access to the team.

Content types

Each type builds on the one before it, but none depends on the others: you can build a block, workout or program from scratch without saving its pieces to the library first. Save something to the library only when you want to reuse it.

Programs

A program is a run of workouts laid out over a set number of weeks, usually one training phase. Click Add Program to start From scratch, copy a template From FYTT, convert a spreadsheet, PDF or image From file, or have Flex draft one. See Programs.

Progressions

A progression maps how one track of a program, such as a lower-body lift on Mondays, changes week to week, so you can plan and read that adaptation on its own. Click Add Progression to build one. See Progressions.

Workouts

A workout is one training session made of blocks, such as a warm-up, a strength block and a cool-down. Library workouts can be added to programs or scheduled on the calendar. Click Add Workout to start From scratch or have Flex build the whole session. See Workouts.

Blocks

A block is one part of a workout ("Warm-up", "Lower Body") with its exercises and sets. Save your most used blocks here and insert them into any workout. Click Add Block to build one. See Blocks.

Exercises

The exercise library holds each exercise's written instructions, video and default metrics. You don't need an exercise here to use it in a block: blocks accept any exercise name, and you add one to the library only when you want its video, description or other details to follow it. Click Add Exercise and choose From scratch, bring many in at once with CSV Import, or choose With Flex to have Flex build the library from your programs, a spreadsheet, or what you train. See Exercises.

Tags

The Tags tab lists every tag in your library; see Tags below.

Where content lives

Every item in the library belongs to one location:

  • Institution — shared with every team and coach in your organization.

  • Team — available only within that team. You only see this option when your organization has more than one team.

  • Personal — visible and programmable only by you. You only see this option when your organization has more than one coach.

The library shows the current team's content, your organization's content and your personal content together. When your organization has more than one team, the Location column shows where each item lives. Content that belongs to another team isn't listed; switch to that team with Team in the top bar to see it.

Best practice

Most organizations keep the bulk of their content at the institution level so every coach builds from the same library. Keep team content for work that truly belongs to one team.

Filtering the library by location or tag

Click the funnel button beside the search to open Filters. Tick one or more Tags, or one or more locations under Location, then click Apply. To see only one team's programs, switch to that team and tick just the team's name under Location. Clear all removes every filter.

The library's Filters popover

Choosing where new content goes

When you create a program, progression, workout, block or exercise, the panel opens with a Library location box. Pick where it goes in Create content for (1). The line underneath shows your default; click Change (2) to change it.

The Library location box on a new program

Default library location

The Default library location dialog holds two settings. Both save as soon as you change them; click Done to close it.

The Default library location dialog

  • Always save my new content to my personal library — turn this on and everything you create in this organization starts in your personal library, whichever team you're on. You can still pick a team or the institution in Create content for each time. It only affects you.

  • Default for this team — choose Institution or Team as the starting location for everyone creating content on this team. It's shown to coaches with edit access to the team when your organization has more than one team. A coach's personal library setting overrides it.

Copying content between teams

To put a program, progression, workout or block in another team's library, or in the institution or your personal library, save a copy of it:

  1. Open the item. On a program, click Duplicate; on a progression, workout or block, click Copy.

  2. In the Save a copy panel, choose the destination in Copy to (1). It lists the institution, your personal library and each team you have edit access to.

  3. Rename the copy if you want, then click Save copy.

The Save a copy panel

The copy is independent: editing it doesn't change the original, and the original stays where it was.

To move content to another organization, use a transfer instead. See Transfers.

Tags

Tags sort library content by phase, sport, body part or any convention you use, and power the Tags filter on each tab. A tag belongs to one content type, so a "Speed" tag for programs is separate from a "Speed" tag for exercises.

Adding tags

When you create an item, click Add tags in the panel; when you edit one, use its Tags field. Pick an existing tag or type a new one. Tags on institution and team content come from your organization's shared tags; tags on personal content come from your own.

The Tags tab

The Tags tab (1) lists each tag with its Content type, how many items use it, and its Scope: Institution or Personal. Filter by Tag type or Ownership with the funnel button.

The Tags tab

  • New Tag (2) opens a menu. From scratch opens the New tag panel: enter a Name, an optional Description, the Content type (it can't be changed later) and the Library it belongs to, Personal or Institution, then click Create tag. With Flex opens Flex, which reads your library, proposes tags for each content type and applies them once you agree. See Flex.

  • Click a tag's row to rename it or change its description, then click Save changes. Apply with Flex in the tag's panel opens Flex on that tag, so you can describe what it should go on.

  • To delete tags, tick them and click Delete, or click Delete in a tag's panel. Deleting a tag removes it from everything it's applied to and can't be undone.

Moving tags

To move tags between your personal library and the institution, tick them on the Tags tab and click Transfer, or click Move… in a tag's panel. In Move tags, choose Move to, Personal library or Institution, and click Move.

The Move tags dialog

Moving a tag doesn't move the content

The tag, and its place on every item it's applied to, moves to the library you choose. The programs, workouts and other items themselves stay where they are; to move content, save a copy of it instead.

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