What are Alternate Exercises?
Alternate exercises give clients options to choose from. Clients can review and swap them on the Start Workout screen before they begin, or during a live workout. This lets you design a single workout that works for all your clients, whatever their ability level or available equipment. For example, a client at a hotel gym can check the substitutes ahead of time and pick the ones that match the equipment they have.
How to add default alternate exercises
Through the exercise library or workout builder, you can find the default alternate exercises setting in the "Advanced Settings" section of an exercise profile. This feature will automatically link alternate exercises to the main exercise when you add it to a workout.
You can also rearrange the order of exercises by dragging and dropping them according to your preference.
How to add alternate exercises for a single workout
From a client's training calendar
Add an exercise or choose an existing exercise
Click ...
Select Alternate Exercises
Search and select desired exercises
Save and review your changes
This change will only be reflected in this single workout.
What the clients see
Clients can view and swap alternate exercises before or during a workout.
Before starting a workout
When at least one exercise in a workout has alternates, clients see a banner below the Equipment list on the Start Workout screen.
To view alternates, clients tap the exercise name pill. This opens the “Your exercise” sheet, which lists the current exercise first and then the alternates in the order you set them. Clients can tap any exercise to see its video or images, equipment and instructions.
Clients can swap in one of two ways, and both apply instantly:
Tap the swap icon next to an alternate in the “Your exercise” sheet, or
Open an alternate’s details and tap Replace.
On-demand program workouts are view only until the program starts, because any swap would be reset when it starts. Once the program is started, clients can swap as usual.
During a workout
Clients can swap alternate exercises during a workout by tapping the exercise name. When the client finishes, the logged workout and workout history show the exercises they actually did.
Good to know
You won’t see your client’s swaps until they log the workout. Swaps made before starting are saved on the client’s device only. After the client logs the workout, the result shows what they did.
Swaps don’t sync across devices. A swap made on a client’s phone won’t appear on their tablet.
Some actions reset swaps to your original exercises:
The client logs out of the app.
You edit that workout, either on the client’s calendar or in the Program or Autoflow it comes from. Your version always takes priority, and all swaps on that workout are reset, including swaps on exercises you didn’t change.
The client adds a swapped On-demand workout to their calendar. The calendar copy starts from your original version, and the client can swap again.
On-demand swaps are personal. A client’s swap never changes your On-demand workout or affects other clients.
Logging for a client in the Coach App: you can view and swap alternates on the Start Workout screen the same way clients can. Your swaps stay on your device and aren’t sent to the client’s app.