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Creating and managing Exercise Templates

How to save a programme as a template, load templates into the Creator, rename them, share them with your team, and load a past prescription.

Written by Cloudia Barr

The Creator was rebuilt in September 2026. Templates now live on a tab of the library panel, and you save a template from the arrow beside Publish. See What's New in the Creator for a summary of what changed.

A template is a saved programme you can reuse. Rehab Guru gives you a large set of ready-made templates, and you can build your own and share them with your team.

Finding your templates

  1. Open Creator from the sidebar.

  2. Click the Templates tab at the top of the library panel on the left.

  3. Type in the search box to find a template by name, for example "Ankle Sprain Level 1".

Opening the Templates tab in the library panel

Under the search box are three filter buttons. Each one shows or hides a group of templates, and all three are on to start with:

  • Mine: templates you saved yourself.

  • Your team's name (for example Team Guru Rehab): templates your colleagues have shared with you.

  • Rehab Guru: the ready-made templates we provide.

Click a filter to turn it off, and click it again to turn it back on. Each template card shows how many exercises it holds and a Shared label if your team can see it. Use the arrows at the bottom of the panel to move between pages.

The filters work on the page of templates you are looking at. If the panel says No templates match these filters, turn a filter back on or move to the next page with the arrows at the bottom.

You can also reach your templates without leaving the programme: choose Browse templates from the Actions menu in the top right of the Creator.

Loading a template into a programme

  1. Click the template card. The Load from template window opens with the template's exercises on the right.

  2. Every exercise is ticked, along with the sets, reps and loads saved with it. Untick any you do not want, or use Select all and Clear at the top right.

  3. At the bottom left, choose Add to programme to keep the exercises you already have, or Replace programme to start again from the template.

  4. Click the blue button. It shows how many exercises you are adding, for example Add 13 of 13 exercises, or reads Replace programme if you chose to replace.

Choosing which exercises to load from a template

Replace programme removes the exercises already in the Creator. If you want to keep them, leave Add to programme selected. Click Cancel to close the window without changing anything.

You can switch to a different template without closing the window: search or click another template in the list on the left.

Template options

Click the ... button on a template card to see what you can do with it.

Opening the options for a template

  • Choose exercises...: opens the Load from template window so you can pick individual exercises.

  • Load whole template...: brings in the whole template without picking exercises one by one.

  • Preview: shows the template as your client would see it, week by week. Use Copy as text to copy the exercise list.

  • Rename / share link...: rename the template or share it by share key.

  • Team sharing...: choose what your colleagues can do with it.

  • Delete: remove the template.

Rehab Guru's ready-made templates only show Choose exercises, Load whole template and Preview. To change one, load it, edit the programme, then save it as your own template.

Saving a programme as a template

Build the programme in the Creator as you normally would. There are two places to save it from:

  • From the top bar - click the arrow beside Publish and choose Save as template. A Save Template window opens where you set the Template name and the team permissions, then click Save and confirm.

  • From the Publish drawer - click Publish, then the arrow beside Publish programme at the bottom of the drawer, and choose Save as new template. To overwrite a template you already have, choose Update existing template instead.

Saving a programme as a new template

Saving a template does not send anything to a client. You can save a template and close the drawer without publishing.

Renaming a template and sharing it by link

  1. Click ... on your template and choose Rename / share link...

  2. To rename it, type the new name in Template Title and click Save. The Save button stays greyed out until you change the name.

  3. To share it with someone outside your team, click Share template. This turns sharing by share key on or off for this template.

  4. Click Cancel to close the window without changing anything.

Renaming a template or sharing it by share key

The Share template button only controls the share key. To share with your own team, use Team sharing instead.

Sharing templates with your team

  1. Click ... on your template and choose Team sharing...

  2. In Sharing settings, tick Allow viewing so team members can see and use the template.

  3. Tick Allow editing as well if team members should be able to change and delete it.

  4. Click Save, or close the window with the X to leave things as they were.

Setting who on your team can view and edit a template

If your team account shares everything by default, you will see the message Sharing of all created content is enabled by default on your team account, and both boxes are ticked and greyed out. Your team can already see and edit the template, so there is nothing to change.

Changing several templates at once

  1. Click Select at the top right of the Templates tab. A tick box appears on each template card.

  2. Tick the templates you want, or tick Select all.

  3. A bar appears at the bottom of the panel showing how many you have selected. Click Sharing to apply the same team sharing settings to all of them, or Delete to remove them.

  4. Click the X on the bar to clear your selection, then click Done to leave select mode.

Selecting several templates to share or delete together

Loading a past prescription

If you want to reuse a programme you have already sent to a client, paste its prescription ID into the Load past prescription box near the top of the Templates tab and click the button beside it, or choose Load past prescription from the Actions menu. The programme loads into the Creator, ready to adjust and send again.

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