Your exercise library should match your floor, not a gym you do not own

A list of exercises your members cannot do is worse than no list at all. Here is what changes when your library fills itself from the equipment you own.

Most fitness apps come with an impressive number of exercises. Hundreds of them. Then a trainer in a mid-sized gym opens one and finds half of them need a machine that is not on their floor.

So they stop opening it. And a library nobody opens is just a long list.

A library that starts from what you own

In QuantumOFit, the exercise library is built from your equipment. Record a barbell and the barbell lifts switch on. Record a lat pulldown and its exercises switch on. The library fills itself, and everything under "Your exercises" is something a member can actually do in your building.

Machines are counted one at a time, because owning a leg press does not mean you own a hack squat. Bodyweight exercises are there for every gym from day one.

Own a machine we have never heard of? Add it as your own item and say which listed machine it works like. It borrows that machine’s exercises, so a plate-loaded row that works like a seated row machine unlocks seated rows.

The full catalogue holds 150+ exercises. The ones your floor cannot support yet sit under "More exercises", where you can still see them, clearly marked as not switched on.

Search the way trainers talk

Nobody types "latissimus dorsi". Search understands lats, pecs, quads, glutes, delts and traps as well as the proper names, so the question a trainer actually has gets an answer.

You can tick more than one option at a time: chest and shoulders, on dumbbells or a barbell, for beginners and intermediates. Two options in the same filter means either, and adding another filter narrows it down, which is how the question sounds in your head anyway.

There is also a switch for secondary muscles, because "back exercises" and "anything that works the back at all" are different questions. Mixing them up is how a week ends up with far more pulling than anybody intended.

See what an exercise really does

Every exercise has a body diagram, front and back, with the muscles it works lit up. A bench press lights the front. A row lights the back. A deadlift lights both, and showing only one side would quietly leave out half of what it does.

Open any exercise for its instructions and injury notes. The notes are programming guidance for your trainers, not medical advice, and the screen says so.

Your head trainer is in charge of it

Trainers can browse the whole library and use it. Head trainers and above decide what is in it: switching exercises off while a machine is out of order, and creating exercises of their own when your gym does something the catalogue does not.

When a head trainer wants to check the whole library at once, say "do we have enough pulling work for beginners", there is a compact list view for comparing forty exercises side by side instead of reading forty cards.

Want to see how your own floor turns into a library? Book a demo with your equipment list and we will build it on the call.