The Creator was rebuilt in September 2026, and the exercise library can now be expanded to fill the screen so you can browse many more exercises at once. See What's New in the Creator for a summary of what changed.
The Rehab Guru library holds thousands of exercises. You can find what you need by typing a search term, by narrowing the list with filters, or by combining the two. When you want to browse rather than search, expand the library into a full-screen grid.
Opening and hiding the library
Open Creator from the sidebar. On a laptop or desktop screen the library is already open down the left of the studio, on the Exercises tab, with your programme in the centre.
The Creator studio, with the exercise library on the left
The panel stays open while you add exercises, so you can work through a whole search without reopening it. If you want more room for the programme, click the thin bar on the right edge of the library to tuck it away. It shrinks to a narrow strip with a search icon; click the strip to bring it back. On a smaller window there is a Library button in the top bar instead.
Bringing the library back from the narrow strip
Expanding the library to fill the screen
The library panel shows around five exercises at a time, which is fine when you know what you are looking for. To browse, click the expand button at the top of the panel, beside the Templates tab.
Expanding the library from the top of the panel
The library slides out over the programme as a grid of picture cards, with the search box, tabs and filter chips laid out along the top. Your programme is still there underneath, exactly as you left it.
Browsing the library as a full-screen grid
Choosing how big the cards are
Click Card size and choose Small, Medium or Large. Small fits the most exercises on the screen; Large gives you a bigger picture of each one. The library remembers your choice on that device.
Choosing a card size
Browsing with small cards
Each page of the grid holds 60 exercises. Use the arrows at the foot of the screen to move between pages.
Seeing the exercise video without opening it
With Video preview switched on in the top right, resting your mouse on a card for a moment plays that exercise's video in the card itself, so you can check the movement without leaving the grid. Move the mouse away and the picture returns. If you would rather the videos stayed still, switch the toggle off; the library remembers this on your device too. Video preview works with a mouse, not on a touch screen.
What you can do from a card
Click anywhere on a card to add that exercise to your programme, or click it again to take it out. The row of buttons along the bottom of each card gives you the other options: add or remove it, duplicate it into My Exercises so you can edit your own copy, preview it, or add it to your favourites.
Using the buttons on an exercise card
A single click on a card adds the exercise to your programme straight away, just as it does in the narrow panel. Use the preview button, or double-click the card, if you want to look at it first.
Going back to the programme
Click Done in the top right, or press Esc, and the grid slides away to reveal your programme with everything you added in place. The library returns to its narrow panel on the left.
Closing the full-screen library
The Templates tab expands in the same way, laying your templates out as cards across the screen with the search box and the past prescription box along the top.
Browsing templates in the full-screen library
Choosing which exercises you are searching
Underneath the search box are three tabs that decide which exercises you are searching:
Search - the full Rehab Guru library.
Favourites - the exercises you have hearted.
My Exercises - exercises you or your team have created.
Switching between Search, Favourites and My Exercises
Searching by keyword
Type into the search box at the top of the library. You can press / from anywhere in the Creator to jump straight to it.
The more specific your term, the tighter the results. Searching bridge returns the bridge variations; searching something broad like leg returns a great deal more, which you can then narrow with the filters.
Searching the exercise library by keyword
Narrowing the results with filters
The filter chips sit directly under the tabs in the panel, or along the top of the full-screen grid. There are six of them:
Difficulty - Easy, Medium, Hard or Expert.
Equipment - what the client needs to hand.
Muscle - the muscle group worked.
Movement - the direction of movement.
Aim - what the exercise is for.
Joint - the joint involved.
Click a chip to open it. Each option shows the number of exercises that match, so you can see how much a filter will narrow things before you apply it. Tick as many options as you like.
Filtering exercises by difficulty
Seeing and clearing what you have applied
An applied filter turns into a highlighted chip showing the value you chose. Click the small x on the chip to clear that one filter and leave the rest in place.
Clearing an applied filter
Filters and keywords work together, so "squat" plus Difficulty: Easy gives you only the easy squats.
Previewing an exercise
Double-click an exercise card to preview it. A panel opens on the right with the video, the images, the difficulty and tags, and the step-by-step instructions your client will see.
Previewing an exercise before adding it
From the preview you can move through the results with the arrows at the bottom, Save to my exercises to keep a copy, or Add to programme.
Saving an exercise or adding it to the programme
Adding an exercise to your programme
A single click adds the exercise straight to your programme. Use a double-click if you only want to look at it first. There is no plus button or collection basket.
Click an exercise card once and it drops into the programme in the centre of the screen. The card gets a blue tick so you can see at a glance what you have already used, and clicking it again takes it back out.
Adding an exercise with a single click
Once it is in the programme you set the sets, reps and everything else directly on the row. See Setting Exercise Parameters in a Programme for that, including how to give two or three exercises the same sets and reps in one go.
















