Building a workout

Basic structure, Advanced intensity.  You build workouts in Vault → Training → My Workouts → New workout. Name it, pick a type (Standard / Simple / Video guided), and you’re in the builder. Everything auto-saves as you go.

The type decides which editor the workout opens into and is chosen when you create it. You can change it afterwards under Template mode in the Configuration panel, where Standard is listed as Advanced.

This guide focuses on a Standard workout, the full builder.

Simple and Video guided are the same builder with a different front: the exercise row leads with a Notes field and Rest instead of the six stat columns, because in those modes the note is the instruction. Video guided adds a per-exercise preview loop.

Nothing is taken away, though:

• Sections stay. Warm-up, Main, Finisher and Cooldown are there in every mode.
• The numbers stay. Sets, reps and weight appear under the exercise name as 3 sets · 8-12 · @ 20kg, and the pencil beside them opens the full set (sets, reps, weight, RIR/RPE and tempo) in a small panel. So you can still program precisely in Simple; you just aren’t asked to.
• Notes open where they are. Click into a note and it expands to a few lines over the row, then folds back to one line when you click away, so a long list stays a list.

Advanced is the mode that puts all of it in the row at once. Every mode can do everything.

Click an exercise’s picture at any time to open the exercise itself, with its demonstration video, instructions, equipment and target muscles, without losing your place in the workout.

Sections, groups & exercises

A workout is organised into four sections, Warm-Up · Main · Finisher · Cooldown & Stretching, and within them, exercises (or groups of exercises). Each exercise carries its own stats: sets, reps, weight, RIR/RPE, tempo, and rest. Sections and groups are there in every mode, not just Standard.

Reorder anything by dragging. Drag whole exercises or groups between sections, or reorder exercises within a group. Tick several exercises and a bar appears at the foot of the list to group them as a superset or a circuit in one go.

Add exercises from your library

Inside any section you have two ways in: the search box for when you know what you want, and the library (the Browse button) for when you want to look around.

Quick search, and what an empty box shows

Click into the search box before typing anything and it already has a list for you:

• Favorites first: every exercise you have starred.
• Recently used next: exercises you recently added to workouts you own.

So the movements you program every week are one click away, without typing a name. Start typing and the list switches to search results. Every result carries a star, so you can star or unstar an exercise right there without adding it to the workout.

Browse the library

The library opens a dialog of exercise cards. Each card plays its demo video on hover and has a star in the corner. Along the top:

• Search by name.
• All / Public / Mine / Team chooses whose exercises you see.
• The star toggle next to that switch shows only your favorites. Click it again to see everything.
• Filters holds the Muscle, Type and Level dropdowns. When any of them is set, the button shows how many, for example Filters (2), and Clear filters inside resets them.

Favorites are yours

One click on a star adds the exercise to your favorites, and another click takes it off. The star looks the same everywhere: in quick search, on library cards, on your exercise list and at the top of an exercise’s own page. Star it in one place and it is starred in all of them.

Favorites are personal. Your teammates keep their own, so starring the exercises you use most never changes what anyone else sees.

How search ranks results

Search in the builder (and on your exercise list) is built to put the exercise you meant at the top:

1. Your favorites come first.
2. Your own exercises come next.
3. Then the standard version of the movement, followed by its common variations. bench press leads with Barbell Bench Press, then dumbbell, incline, decline and close grip. pull up leads with Pull-up, then chin-up and the wide and close grip versions.

It also understands how coaches actually type:

• Spacing and hyphens don’t matter. pull up, pullup and pull-up find the same exercises.
• Abbreviations work: rdl, ohp.
• Serbian gym names work too: cucanj, zgib, sklek, mrtvo dizanje.

The Protocol library shows one entry per exercise. Where a movement has separate male, female or numbered “version” demos, you see it once instead of two or three near-identical rows. If you do want those copies, put female, male or version in your search and they appear again.

The library ships with a base set of movements you can extend with your own. See Creating custom exercises for the full editor (demos, muscle groups, equipment, alternatives and more), and The Protocol exercise library for starring and filtering on the exercise list itself.

Set the stats

For each exercise you set:

Group exercises (supersets, circuits & more)

Group exercises to run them together. Pick a format and Protocol shows the right controls (rounds, a time cap, rest between rounds, rest after):

Program per-set intensity (advanced) Advanced

The Reps field takes a plain number or a range, and it also takes a per-set scheme typed straight into the field. Separate the sets with a comma or a slash, combine a rep count with a load using ×, and end a value with its unit (reps, kg, lbs, %, bw, min, sec, m, yd). Ranges work in either half.

It works for far more than reps × weight:

Heads-up: drop sets are a group format (and decreasing weights), not a per-set flag; and RIR/RPE on the template are set once for the exercise (per-set RPE is captured when the client logs).

Workout settings

Beside the exercise list sits the Configuration panel, which holds the workout’s cover image, description, tags, plus experience level, difficulty (Easy to Very hard), training goal, target muscle groups, required equipment, and an estimated duration. These power search and the client’s preview. On a narrow screen the panel becomes a Configuration tab instead.

Workouts are single sessions. To sequence them across weeks (and blend in nutrition), build a Program. See Training templates & the exercise library.

Next: how clients do the workout → Logging workouts on mobile →