Exercises have two purposes; communicating workout content and adding an extra level of detail to your training analysis.
Creating an Exercise
Start by entering some basic information about your new exercise, such as category, name and comment. The comment field should be used to describe exercise provide other necessary information to the performer of it.
NOTE, the values you define in create exercise is only default values and can later be changed in a workout.
Muscle Groups
It is possible to select which muscle groups your exercise is affecting. This makes it possible to later follow up an athletes training for each muscle group.
For example, a classic bench press would have chest as main muscle group and triceps as secondary muscle groups. A randori exercise would on the other hand have general as its main muscle group.
Exercise type
There are two types of exercises; repletion and time.
Repetition exercises
Repetition exercises are defined by set, repetitions and amount. Set and Repetitions defines how many times an athlete should perform the exercise. Amount can for instance represent a distance or the weight of a dumbbell. It’s up to as the creator.
NOTE , if you want to, for example, create a distance running exercise we recommend that you put Set and Repetitions to 1 and use Amount to define the distance. E.g. 1 x 1 x 5000m.
Link to max test is used when you want to let the system calculate the amount for an athlete. For example, if you link an exercise to “Max bench press” and set the amount to 80%. Then will the system calculate individually for each athlete how many kilos our pounds 80% is for him or her, provided that the athlete has entered their max value.
Time exercises
Time exercises are used when you want an athlete to perform an exercise during a certain time.
Best practice
You should NOT, for example, name an exercise “10 km running”. Instead you should name it “Distance running” and decide in the workout how long the distance should be. Doing so will help reduce the number of exercises you need.