# Exercise library

Updated: 2026-07-26
Canonical page: https://methodapp.net/docs/exercise-library
Docs index: https://methodapp.net/docs

Keep exercise records accurate so movements stay easy to find and analytics can attribute your sets correctly.

Exercise records are reused everywhere: builders, the workout logger, history,
and analytics. Time spent keeping them accurate pays back every time you search
for a movement.

## What a record carries

  - **Name and aliases** Aliases are how you find the same movement under a different gym's name.
    Add them liberally.

  - **Target muscles** Primary and secondary targets. These drive muscle coverage analytics. An
    exercise with no targets is counted separately as unattributed.

  - **Equipment** Used for filtering and for matching against the equipment in your training
    setup.

  - **Instructions** Setup and technique notes, shown when you open the movement mid-session.

## Finding and bulk editing

- Search begins once the query is long enough to be meaningful
- Filters narrow a large library by movement metadata
- Templates and CSV import speed up bulk setup
- Editing a record improves every future use of that movement

> **Fix the exercise record.** If a movement keeps showing up wrong in analytics, correct the exercise record
>   once. That updates every set attributed to it.