Exercises
The Exercise Library holds reusable exercises you can add to any workout. Each exercise can include sets, alternates, rest timers, and tracking for weight, reps, duration, or distance.
Understanding the Exercise Library
Your library contains two types of exercises: default exercises, which are pre-built and available to all users, and custom exercises, which you create for your own needs. Both work identically in workouts.
Creating a Custom Exercise
Open the Exercise Library
Navigate to Workouts → Exercises or open the library when adding an exercise to a workout.
Create new exercise
Click New Exercise and enter a name.
Configure the exercise
Set the following options:
- Category — Determines which fields are tracked:
- Default — Weight, reps, duration, distance
- Reps Only — Just rep counting
- Cardio — Duration and distance focused
- Duration — Time-based exercises
- Time + Reps — Track time and reps
- Duration + Weight — Track time and weight
- Interval — Track work and rest cycles
- Default Weight Unit — kg or lbs
- Default Distance Unit — km or miles
- Description — Optional notes about form or purpose
- Thumbnail — Optional image URL
New exercises use your preferred weight and distance units by default. Change these in Settings → Preferences.
Save the exercise
Click Save to add it to your library.
Duration + Weight Exercises
Choose Duration + Weight when the load and the length of a hold both matter, such as weighted hangs, weighted planks, or loaded isometric holds. This category tracks time and weight without reps.
Create or Edit
On web, go to Workouts → Exercises. On mobile, open the exercise library. Create an exercise or open one to edit it, then select Duration + Weight as its category.
Track a Session
On web and mobile, each set shows Weight and Duration only. Use the built-in set timer for the hold, and record RIR or RPE when you want to track effort. Entering a weight of 0 is a valid bodyweight entry; leaving weight empty means no weight is recorded.
Session summaries pair weight × duration. If you change an exercise to this category from another one, its old rep values are ignored in session displays and metrics.
Metrics and Personal Bests
Open Metrics → Exercises to see total Duration, your Heaviest set paired with that set’s duration, and your Longest set with the weight you used.
A heaviest-set personal best must include an actual hold longer than zero seconds. When two holds use the same weight, the longer hold ranks higher. Rep values don’t affect scoring for this category.
Adding Exercises to Workouts
Open your workout
Go to Workouts and select the workout you want to edit.
Add an exercise
Click Add Exercise and search your library. Select the exercise to add it.
Configure sets
Add sets to your exercise. Each set can track:
- Weight — Load used
- Reps — Repetition count
- Duration — Time in seconds
- Distance — Distance covered
- Rest — Rest period after the set
- Kind — Normal, warm-up, or failure set
Add alternates (optional)
If you have substitute exercises, add them as alternates.
Set rest timers
Configure rest between sets and between exercises. Your default rest times from Settings are used automatically.
Tracking Sets
When completing a workout, each set shows:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Weight | Load for the set |
| Reps | Number of repetitions |
| Duration | Time in seconds |
| Distance | Distance in your preferred unit |
| Completed | Mark when finished |
Set Types
- Normal — Standard working sets included in statistics
- Warm-up — Preparatory sets excluded from statistics
- Failure — Sets taken to muscular failure
Using Alternates
Alternates are substitute exercises you can swap in when equipment isn’t available, when you want variety, or when you’re working around an injury.
Add alternates when editing an exercise. During a workout, you can switch to any alternate.
Rest Timers
Sequence tracks two types of rest:
- Rest between sets — Pause after each set within an exercise
- Rest between exercises — Pause before moving to the next exercise
Set your preferred defaults in Settings → Preferences:
- Default rest between sets — Applied to new exercises
- Default rest between exercises — Applied when moving between exercises
Override these defaults on any individual exercise or set.
Viewing Exercise Metrics
Track your progress over time in Metrics → Exercises:
- View all exercises you’ve performed
- See weight, reps, and volume trends
- Filter by date range
- Compare performance across sessions
The metrics pull from completed sets marked in your scheduled workouts.
Syncing with Templates
When you schedule a workout, exercises are copied to your session. Whether later changes to the workout template reach that session depends on whether the scheduled copy is linked or unlinked:
- Unlinked scheduled sessions retain their original exercise configuration and are not affected by template changes
- Linked scheduled sessions can receive updates from the original workout template, so exercise edits may propagate automatically
- New sessions always use the updated template
For unlinked sessions, you can manually sync a scheduled session to match the current template if needed. See Linked Workouts for how linking controls this.
Managing Your Library
Edit an Exercise
Open the exercise from your library and update any field. Changes to name or category propagate to all workout templates using that exercise.
Archive an Exercise
Archive exercises you no longer use. Archived exercises:
- Don’t appear in search results
- Remain in existing workouts
- Can be restored if needed
View Usage
See which workouts use a specific exercise before you make changes to it.