How to Create Custom Exercises

How to add your own exercises to TotalCoaching

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Written by David Gill
Updated over a week ago

When adding an exercise to a session, you can either:

  • search for the exercise in the TotalCoaching database

  • add a custom exercise

To create a custom exercise, click on "Custom" at the top right corner of the Exercise Search and click on the "+" icon.

Exercise Name

The name will be the exercise name you want your client to see. Let's say you're a swimming coach and you want your client to practice the Butterfly technique: enter Butterfly technique in the name field.

Description

You can enter some execution guidelines in the description field.

Paste Video Hyperlink

You can attach any Youtube or Vimeo video to your exercise, by pasting the link in the field. The video will play directly on TotalCoaching when your client will look at the exercise.

N.B: 1. you have to use an hyperlink to attach a video to your exercise; you can not upload your own video directly on TotalCoaching.
2. you have to make sure your video is set on 'public' on Youtube or Vimeo, otherwise it won't play. If you don't want it to be found anywhere else than on TotalCoaching you can select the 'Non-Indexed' option when uploading your video on the chosen platform.

Thumbnail

An image from your video will automatically appear in the thumbnail, which will be the first illustration of the exercise your client will see.

If you don't like it, you can also upload your own image from your computer:

  1. click on the image

  2. upload your image

  3. click on 'OK'

Once you have entered all the information about your exercise, click on the save button at the top right. That will bring you back to the list of custom exercises.

Here you go! You can now see your custom exercise added to the list!

It will work exactly like any other exercise on TotalCoaching: you will be able to enter the details for that exercise (sets, reps, rest...) and when your client clicks on it, he will see the video of that exercise.

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