Workout Templates

A workout template is a ready-made mould — a list of exercises with their sets, repetitions, load and intensity — not tied to a date or a slot. It speeds up building a workout: instead of entering exercises from scratch every time, you pick a template and adjust it as needed.

Exercises in a template are picked from the exercise code book, and the performance parameters are the same as in a workout in a slot — their meaning is described in ~ WORKOUT ~.

1. List

About filters and finding data in lists

Filter fields and list columns are described in List.

Clicking a row opens the [ Template - Edit ] dialog; a new template is entered with the button in the bottom right corner of the list, which opens [ Template - Add ]. Both dialogs have the same fields.

2. Template data

Field	Description
{Name}	The name you pick the template by when building a workout — e.g. Legs A, Push day, Knee recovery. Mandatory.
{Active}	The tick marks a template that is offered when building a workout.
{Department}	The gym the template applies to. Empty means it applies in all gyms of the company.
{Trainer}	The trainer the template belongs to. Empty means it is available to all trainers.
{Member}	The member the template was made for. Empty means it is not personal.
{Notes}	The trainer's note about the template — who it is meant for, at which stage of the programme it is used.

Values of {Department}, {Trainer} and {Member} are picked from a drop-down.

When the company has only one department, the {Department} field is not shown and the template is saved as available in all gyms. The same applies to {Trainer} when only one trainer is entered in the company. A field offering a single choice only takes up space, so Brix leaves it out.

3. Who a template applies to

Together, {Department}, {Trainer} and {Member} determine the template's scope — who sees it when building a workout. The more fields are filled in, the narrower the scope:

All three empty
A company-wide template. Available when building any workout, in all gyms and for all trainers.
{Department} filled in
Applies in that gym only, for all its trainers.
{Trainer} filled in
The trainer's own template; it is not offered to other trainers.
{Member} filled in
A template tied to that member only — an individual programme.

When a trainer opens the template drop-down in a slot, they are offered every template that covers them — company-wide templates, templates of their gym, their own, and those tied to the member they are working with. Templates of other trainers and other members are not shown.

Set the scope as wide as it can safely be. Leave a template that genuinely applies across the gym without a trainer, and make it personal only when it departs from common practice — that keeps the drop-down readable.

4. Exercises in a template

Exercises are entered in the table at the bottom of the dialog. Each row is one exercise with its performance parameters:

Column	Meaning
#	The exercise's position in the template.
Exercise	An exercise from the code book.
Sets	The number of groups of consecutive repetitions without rest.
Repetitions	The number of performances within one set.
Load / Weight	The weight in kilograms; the unit kg is shown in the field.
Intensity	Effort — a percentage of 1RM or a subjective estimate, e.g. 70%, RPE 7, 50% of strength.
Rest	The pause between sets; the unit s (seconds) is shown in the field.
Tempo	The speed of performance, e.g. 2-0-2.
Notes	A short instruction for that exercise.

4.1 Adding an exercise

In the last, empty row open the drop-down in the Exercise column and select an exercise. The row is added to the template and a new empty row opens below it.
Enter the performance parameters in the remaining columns.

Next to the exercise drop-down are icons for maintaining the exercise code book without leaving the template:

{Pencil} next to the selected exercise — opens that exercise for editing.
{+} in the empty row — opens entry of a new exercise into the code book.

4.2 Order and removal

Changing the order
Grab the {⠿} icon on the left edge of the row and drag the row where you want it. The order determines the sequence in which the exercises are performed.
Removing an exercise
Press {Bin} on the right edge of the row. Only that template item is removed; the exercise stays in the code book.

5. How a template is used

Copying works in both directions, and in both the copy is by value — no link is kept.

5.1 Template into a workout

When building a workout in a slot, in the [ Workout - Add ] dialog, you select the template in the {Template} field. All its exercises with parameters are entered into the workout at once, and you adjust them freely for that particular slot — for example lowering the load for the group or for an individual. Changes in the slot do not change the template.

5.2 Workout into a template

A finished workout from a slot is saved as a new template with the SAVE AS TEMPLATE button in the [ Workout - Edit ] dialog.

[ Template - Add ] opens with the exercises and their parameters already copied in.
Enter the {Name} — it is the only field still missing, and the template is not saved without it.
Add {Notes} if needed and check the scope.
Press SAVE.

When you save from a personalised workout, the {Member} field already holds that member's name, so the template is created in their scope and is not offered to anyone else. For a template with a wider reach, clear the member with the ⊗ icon before saving.

How templates fit into the whole is described in Exercises, templates and workouts.

A template and a workout stay independent in both directions. Changing the template does not touch workouts already built, and changing a workout touches neither the template it came from nor the one saved out of it.

A template name must be unique within the same scope. Two trainers may each have their own Legs A; one trainer cannot have two with the same name, and neither can two be tied to the same member.

6. Buttons

SAVE
Stores the template with all its items and closes the dialog. Changes in the exercise table — adding, reordering and removing — are stored only here.
DELETE
Deletes the whole template. Shown only in the [ Template - Edit ] dialog.

Deleting a template is permanent and removes all its items. Workouts already built from that template into slots stay unchanged, because their values are a copy. Rather than deleting a template you no longer use, deactivate it — clear the {Active} tick.

7. Limitations

{Name} is mandatory; without it the template is not saved.
A template without the {Active} tick is no longer offered when building a workout, but stays readable, and workouts built from it are unchanged.
A template is not tied to a date or a slot, so it does not appear in the calendar. You will see it only in this code book and in the template drop-down when building a workout.
Removing an exercise from a template does not touch the exercise code book, and neither does deleting the template.