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 workouts.

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.

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

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.

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

1. 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.
2. 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.

• 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.

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.

How templates fit into the whole is described in workouts.

• 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.

• {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.