453 exercises ship with Loopa, and you can add your own. The catalog is what routines, programs and your history are all built on, so an exercise is one entry that means the same thing everywhere.
Finding one
Search by name, or filter by:
- Muscle: chest, lats, upper back, lower back, traps, shoulders, biceps, triceps, forearms, quads, hamstrings, glutes, calves, adductors, abs, obliques, core, neck, cardio.
- Equipment: barbell, dumbbell, kettlebell, machine, cable, band, trap bar, specialty bar, sled, rope, medicine ball, plyo box, and more.
Two equipment values look similar and are not. None means it needs nothing at all, such as a run. Bodyweight means it needs your body and possibly something to hang from. The "what can I train with what I have today" filter treats them differently.
Adding your own
Health › Training › Exercises › New. Give it a name, a primary muscle and the equipment it needs, and it behaves like any other entry: it goes in routines, sets records, and appears in your analytics.
Custom exercises are yours. Nobody else sees them and they never merge into the shipped catalog.
Creating one is a Premium feature. Using the shipped catalog is free.
Why the catalog matters
Everything downstream keys on the exercise:
- Personal records are per exercise, so "bench press" has to be the same bench press every time.
- Volume by muscle in your analytics adds up through the muscle on the entry.
- Last time's numbers appear when you start a set, and they come from the same exercise's history.
Logging the same movement under three names splits your history three ways. Search before you create.
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