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Exercise Videos & Workout Photos

Clients can record a short video of any exercise and snap a photo at the end of a workout. You review the footage from your dashboard and leave feedback pinned to the exact second of the video. You can also draw on the paused frame — useful for showing them exactly what to fix.

Beta feature

Exercise videos are currently in beta and being rolled out gradually. Workout photos are available to all clients with workout logging enabled.

Recording exercise videos (client side)​

During a workout, your client can record a short video for any exercise. The client films a set, you review it later, and your notes are waiting before their next session.

What the client does​

  • A camera icon shows up on each exercise while they're logging a workout.
  • Tapping it opens their phone camera.
  • The video uploads in the background while they keep training — they don't have to wait.
  • If they go offline mid-upload, it queues and finishes when they're back online. If something fails outright, they see a clear status and can record again.

Workout photos (client side)​

At the end of a workout — on the session summary screen — the client can optionally attach a photo. A gym selfie, a progress shot, or anything relevant to the session. It uploads in the background and shows up in the workout details for both the client and you.

Reviewing videos on your dashboard​

When a client records exercise videos, you'll see them in the workout details on your dashboard.

To find them:

  1. Open the client's dashboard.
  2. Go to Workouts → Logs.
  3. Open the workout day that has the video. The video player shows up directly under each exercise that has one.

A new finished upload also creates a workout video review to-do on your home page, so you don't have to go looking for new footage. See Workout Video Review To-dos for how that queue works.

Videos that are still uploading show a "Video uploading — check back shortly" message. Videos that didn't upload successfully show a short error. Everything else plays directly in the dashboard.

Leaving video feedback​

Each video has its own player with a few extra controls sitting on top:

Coach video player showing the "+ Add comment" button in the top right, the "2 comments" badge in the top left, and two blue markers on the seek bar

  • + Add comment — top right of the video. Tap it to start any new comment.
  • N comments badge — top left. Appears once the video has any past comments. Tap to open the comments list.
  • Blue markers on the timeline — one per past comment, placed at the exact second it was about.

The flow when you add a comment​

  1. Watch the video until the moment you want to coach.
  2. Tap + Add comment. The video pauses, the current frame is grabbed as a still, and the exact second (for example 0:04) is remembered.
  3. The Add comment window opens. The paused frame fills the screen, the timestamp shows in the header, and the drawing tools sit beside the frame on desktop or below it on phones.
  4. Optional: draw on the frame to show what you mean — an arrow at the knee, a circle around the bar path, a quick line over the back angle. Pick a colour from the toolbar. Undo and Clear are right there.
  5. Optional: type a short note below the frame.
  6. Optional: attach extra reference images using the paperclip icon in the typing area. Thumbnails appear in a strip below the text.
  7. Tap the Post button. The label includes the timestamp — for example Post at 0:04 — so you can see exactly which second the note is pinned to.

After posting, the window closes, the video stays paused at the same moment, and a new blue marker appears on the timeline.

Add comment window with a paused pull-up frame, a red circle drawn around the shoulder blades, a coaching cue in the typing box, the green "Drawing included" status chip, and an orange "Post at 0:11" button

Drawing and writing are both optional, but at least one of them is required — a comment can't be empty.

The status chip​

While you're composing, a small chip at the bottom of the window tells you what's actually going to be saved:

  • Drawing included (green dot) — you drew on the frame, so your drawing is saved with the comment.
  • No drawing (grey dot) — you didn't draw, so just the note and the timestamp are saved.

You don't have to think about checkboxes — Assistant Coach saves whichever pieces you actually used.

If the screenshot doesn't work​

A few videos won't let us grab a still — usually because of how the phone recorded them. If that happens, the comment window still opens with the timestamp attached and a short note explaining what happened. You can still type a note, attach extra images, and the comment is pinned to the right moment.

Coming back to existing comments​

Once a video has at least one comment, you have two ways to revisit them.

Timeline markers​

Each past comment shows as a blue marker on the timeline at the exact second it was about. Tap a marker to open a small card with the paused-frame thumbnail, your note, and the timestamp.

Small card anchored to a blue marker on the pull-up video timeline, showing the timestamp, the "Coach · 25m ago" line, a frame thumbnail, and the comment text

On phones, the card slides up from the bottom of the screen so it has more room.

Comments list​

Tap the N comments badge in the top left of the video. A list slides out from the left of the video. Each row shows:

  • The paused-frame thumbnail (if you drew one).
  • A short "Nm ago" label.
  • The exact timestamp (for example ⏱ 0:04).
  • Your note.
  • Edit and Delete buttons.

Tapping a row jumps the video to that moment and pops up the small card. From the same row you can edit the text in place or delete the comment (with a quick confirmation).

Comments list slid out from the left of the pull-up video player, listing two comment rows with drawn frame thumbnails, timestamps, time-since labels, comment text, and edit/delete icons

The list covers only the left half of the video, so the video and its play controls stay visible and usable on the right.

What your client sees​

Every comment you post is visible to the client the next time they open that workout in their portal:

  • The same video, with the same blue markers on the timeline.
  • A list of comment cards below the video. Each card shows the timestamp, your drawing (if you drew one), any extra images, and the note text.
  • Tapping a marker or a card jumps the video and highlights the matching comment.
  • Tapping the image opens a larger view.

For the full client-facing reference — useful when explaining the experience to a new client — see Coach feedback on your videos.

Notifications​

Posting any video comment notifies your client — whether it's text only, just a drawing, or any combination of text, drawing, and extra images. So even a quick visual cue — a paused frame with one arrow on it — counts as feedback they'll see.

Marking the session reviewed​

The workout video review to-do clears when you do any of these on the session:

  • Leave a comment on any video in that session.
  • Save session-level Coach Feedback at the bottom of the workout panel.
  • Tap Mark Session Reviewed.

The first time you reviewed the session is kept as the record, so you can always tell when you finished that round. If the client uploads another video to the same session later, the to-do comes back. Full mechanics in Workout Video Review To-dos.