Exercises, templates and workouts

A workout in Gymmetry is built from three building blocks and performed in a fourth. They differ in how long they last and how many times they are used:

Exercise
The description of one movement — name, instructions for the trainer and for the member, muscle groups, required equipment, photos and recordings. Entered once and used in all workouts.
Workout template
A mould: a list of exercises with performance parameters, with no date and no slot. Serves what repeats.
Workout
What is actually performed in one slot. Created for that slot and valid only for it.
Slot
A place and time in the calendar, with the members who booked it.

1. How it fits together

Exercises are entered once. Every exercise the gym performs is entered into the code book, with a description and a recording. The member sees that description with every workout the exercise appears in.
A template is built for what repeats. A workout you will perform several times — Legs A, Push day, a knee recovery programme — is entered as a template. The time is invested once.
The workout is built in the slot. In the slot dialog, on the ~ WORKOUT ~ tab, you pick a ready-made mould in the {Template} field and its exercises are entered at once. You then adjust them for that slot — or build the workout from scratch, without a template.

Template and workout are independent. Picking a template copies the values into the workout, so a later change to the template does not affect workouts already built, nor does a change to the workout affect the template. The exercise is the exception: its description comes from the code book, so a correction to the description is reflected everywhere.

The reverse direction — saving a finished workout from a slot as a new template — is not yet possible. Templates are built in the code book.

2. Why this way

The split resolves two things that otherwise clash. The exercise description must be the same everywhere — when you correct the technical instruction for a squat, the correction applies to past and future workouts alike. The performance parameters must differ — the same exercise goes with 20 kg on Monday, without weight on Friday, and quite differently in the personalised workout of a member in recovery.

That is why the description lives in the exercise, and sets, repetitions and load in the workout. The template is merely a shortcut to re-entering those parameters.

3. Examples from practice

Group class, 12 places
The trainer builds one workout for the slot; all booked members see the same list of exercises. The {For} field is not shown since the workout applies to everyone anyway. The Conditioning — Tuesday template is pulled in through the {Template} field, and the trainer just lowers the load because the group is beginners.
Semi-individual slot, 4 places
The trainer builds a general workout as the backbone and adds a personalised one for a member recovering from an injury — selecting their name in the {For} field. That member sees only their own workout, the other three the general one.
Individual client
For a member with their own programme a template is built with their name in the {Member} field. Such a template is offered with nobody else, and the trainer pulls it into every slot in a second and fine-tunes it as needed.

4. Where things are done

Entering and editing an exercise
[ Exercises ] under Menu > Code Books.
Building a mould that repeats
[ Workout Templates ] under Menu > Code Books.
Building the workout for a specific slot
The ~ WORKOUT ~ tab in the slot dialog, from the Calendar.
Entering and cancelling members in a slot
The ~ BASIC ~ tab in the same dialog.
Equipment picked with an exercise
[ Equipment ] under Menu > Code Books.