Exercises and tools

How to use the exercise library

Search and filter exercises, see step-by-step form and your history, keep favorites and create exercises of your own.

Works on
  • iPhone
  • Android

The library holds every exercise in Gym+. Each one shows how to do it, the muscles worked, the equipment and your history with it. You can also create your own exercises, which show up in search and in routines like any other.

Step by step

  1. Tap Exercises in the bar at the bottom. The top shows how many exercises your library has.

    Exercises tab: the filters (Filters, Favourites, Created by you, No equipment) and the catalogue list with the muscle group, equipment and level of each exercise.
    Step 1
  2. Type in the Search exercises field to search by name. Use the shortcuts right below, such as Favorites, Created by you and No gear, to narrow the list.

  3. Tap Filters to pick a place, muscles, equipment, level and record type. Tap the button at the end of the sheet to see the result, and Clear filters to go back to the full list.

  4. Tap an exercise to open its page, with How to, the primary and secondary muscles, the equipment, the History of your workouts and Similar exercises.

    Barbell bench press page: the exercise illustration, the Add to routine button and the load history chart with periods from 4 weeks to 1 year.
    Step 4
  5. On that page, tap Add to routine and choose the routine, or create a New routine with this exercise.

  6. To create an exercise of your own, tap the plus button next to the title, fill in the Exercise name, the muscles and the equipment and tap Add exercise.

Common problems

I cannot find an exercise
Check that no filter is on and tap Clear filters. Try another name too. If it does not exist, create your own with the plus button.
I cannot edit an exercise
Only the exercises you created can be edited or deleted. For the others, you set the rest and the warm-up under Exercise settings.

Open in the app

In Gym+, tap the question mark on the Home screen to open the Help Center and search for “Exercise library”. The Open now button takes you straight to the screen.

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Updated on 10/26/2026, app version 1.3.6