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Your Own Exercise Demo Videos

Clients follow a movement best when they can see exactly how it should look. Assistant Coach lets you attach a demonstration to any exercise in your private library — record your own video or add a YouTube link — so when a client opens that exercise in their workout, or taps the link in a plan PDF, a clear demo is waiting. Recording your own is the way to put you, your cues, and your standard in front of the client; a good YouTube link is a quick, perfectly solid alternative.

Why coaches use this​

  • It looks professional. Your plan already downloads as a clean, branded PDF. When you upload your own clip, the demo link opens it on your own branded page — your video, start to finish.
  • It works in any language. If your clients aren't comfortable in English, a demo in their language removes the biggest barrier to following a program correctly.
  • You record it once, use it everywhere. Attach the same video to several similar exercises (for example, a few dumbbell variations) — no need to re-record or re-upload.

How to add a demo video​

  1. Open an exercise in your exercise library (or while building a workout plan).
  2. In the Demo video section, click Upload a video and select a video file (MP4 or MOV, up to 500 MB). If you've uploaded demos before, a window opens first — click Upload a new video.
  3. Wait for the upload to finish. That's it — there's nothing to save, the video is attached to the exercise as soon as it's done.

Prefer a link you already have? Click Add a YouTube link instead, paste the link, and click Save link. Each exercise uses one demo at a time. To switch, remove the current one with the ✕ in the corner of its card, then add the other. Whichever you pick is what clients see.

Exercises from the global library​

Demo videos go on exercises in your private library, the ones you've created yourself. Exercises from the global library are shared by every coach, so you can't change their demo. When you open one, it's marked Global, with no Edit button and no Demo video section.

To give one of those movements your own demo:

  1. Click Create Exercise in your exercise library and add your own version of the movement.
  2. In its Demo video section, add your video or a YouTube link, then click Create Exercise.
  3. Use your version in your workout plans in place of the global one. Clients see the demo on whichever exercise is in their plan.

Reusing a video across exercises​

Once you've uploaded a demo, it stays in your library. On another similar exercise, click Upload a video, then under Or choose one you've used before, click Use this next to the video — the same recording now covers both exercises.

Where your clients see it​

  • In their workout, on the exercise screen — they tap Watch demo and it plays right inside the app.
  • In your plan PDF, next to the exercise — the Watch demo link opens your video. Your client signs in (the same account they already use) and it plays.

You don't set any of this up per client. Attach the video to the exercise once, and it appears everywhere that exercise is used.

Recording tips​

  • Keep it short and clear — a few clean reps from a helpful angle is plenty.
  • Film in portrait if clients will mostly watch on their phones.
  • Speak the cues you'd give in person — setup, the movement, and the one or two things to watch for.

Managing your demo videos​

All your demo videos live in one place: open Resources and look under Exercise demos. There you can see each video, how many exercises currently use it, and remove any you no longer need.

Two things worth knowing:

  • Removing a video from one exercise leaves the file in your library and on any other exercises still using it.
  • Deleting a video from your library removes it from every exercise that used it — including past workouts and plan PDFs you've already shared — and those exercises simply show no demo until you add another. So delete only when you're sure you're done with that recording.