Creating and Editing Exercises

Creating/Editing exercises

RYPT provides an extensive exercise database for you to create your workouts from so that you can prescribe and monitor specific exercises.

However, if there is something niche that you’d like to prescribe or monitor that isn’t in the database, you can add your own custom exercise to the database to do so. This exercise will only be visible to coaches in your gym and not to other RYPT users.

You can also edit any of our existing exercises if you want to change the naming convention, add different default metrics, add your own exercise technique videos, exercise descriptions, or add suggested progressions, regressions or alternates as shown below.

This video walks you through how to create new exercises and edit existing exercises in your exercise database.

Video length: 1 min 12 secs

Create a new exercise

To create a new exercise, please follow these steps:

1. Click on the Exercises option on the main menu to open your exercise database
2. Click on the + Create new exercise button in the top right-hand corner
3. Type a unique name for your exercise and select the Main Muscle Group
4. Add default metrics for the exercise
5.  [OPTIONAL] Add an exercise technique video, an exercise description, and progressions, regressions and alternates
6. Click Add exercise to finish

The exercise will then be added to your exercise database and can be added to your workouts.

Edit an Existing Exercise

To edit an existing exercise, please follow these steps:

1. Click on the Exercises option on the main menu to open your exercise database
2. Use the Search Bar at the top of the list to search for the exercise you’d like to edit
3. Click on the exercise name to open the Edit exercise pop-up
4. Make any changes you’d like to the exercise
5. Click Save to finish

Adding Default Metrics

When you create a workout you add exercises to it and then you add the metrics and values you’re prescribing to each exercise. RYPT offers a wide range of metrics to give you the flexibility to program exactly the way you want to whether you’re working with a high-performance athlete or the general population.

Adding default metrics to an exercise means that when you add an exercise to a workout the correct metrics will be added automatically and you won’t have to select them each time. Saving you time and helping you program quicker.

This video walks you through how to add default metrics to exercises in your RYPT exercise database.

Video length: 47 seconds

RYPT Metrics

Below is a list of metrics that you can prescribe in your programs.

Adding Exercise Technique Videos

RYPT’s exercise database comes with a database of exercise technique videos that you can use to support your clients and athletes during their workouts. You can see what exercises have videos by clicking the Exercises menu option to open the exercises database. A link will appear in the Technique Video column for any exercises that have a technique video attached. You can also see all our technique videos on the RYPT YouTube Channel.

You can also add your own exercise technique videos to any exercise in the database. This is a great way to get yourself and your own brand into the app and personalize the experience for your clients and athletes. When you add an exercise technique video to an exercise, it will overwrite the RYPT video if there is one, so every time you add that exercise to a workout, your clients and athletes will be able to access the video. The video can also be changed or removed later if you need to.

This video walks through how to add exercise technique videos to exercises in your RYPT exercise database.

Video length: 1 min 8 secs

Adding your Exercise Technique Videos to Exercises

To add an exercise technique video to an exercise, please follow these steps:

1. Click on the the Exercises option on the main menu
2. Find the exercise you’d like to add the video to, using the Search bar if necessary
3. Click on th exercise name to edit it
4. Copy and paste your YouTube link into the Upload video field
5. Click Save to save the changes

NOTE: We host our exercise technique videos on YouTube to ensure high-quality streaming and also that no offensive content is added.

Check out this guide on uploading your videos to YouTube.