The Creator was rebuilt in September 2026. Exercise parameters are now set on the exercise row itself, as you add it, rather than on a separate Settings page, and you can copy the numbers from one exercise and paste them onto others. See What's New in the Creator for a summary of what changed.
Parameters are the numbers you prescribe against each exercise: how many sets and reps, how much load, how long to hold, how long to rest. In the Creator you set them directly on the exercise, in the programme list.
Setting parameters on the row
Every exercise you add to the programme arrives with parameter boxes on its row. Click into a box and type. There is nothing to save; the value is held as soon as you type it.
Setting sets and reps on the exercise row
Which boxes appear depends on the exercise. A timed exercise such as a plank shows Time and Hold; a strength exercise shows Sets and Reps.
Adding a parameter that is not showing
Click the cog at the end of the exercise row to add another parameter to that exercise.
Adding an extra parameter to an exercise
The options are Load, Rest, Time, Hold, Times per day and Times per week, plus Custom for anything else you prescribe. The new box appears on the row straight away.
Choosing exactly which fields to show
For finer control, open the ... menu at the end of the row and choose Edit parameters.
Options available on each exercise row
This opens a box listing every available field. Tick the ones you want on this exercise and untick the rest. The Custom field box at the bottom adds a field of your own, such as Distance. Click Save changes when you are done.
Choosing which parameter fields to show
Giving several exercises the same sets and reps
If two or three exercises need the same numbers, you do not have to type them out on each row. Select the exercises first, then edit them together.
Selecting and deselecting rows
Click an exercise row to select it, and click it again to deselect it. Hold cmd (or ctrl on Windows) and click to add more rows to the selection. Click the row itself rather than one of the parameter boxes; clicking into a box edits that number instead of selecting the exercise.
A bar appears above the list showing how many exercises you have selected, with four things you can do with them:
Edit params - set the same numbers on all of them.
Link as superset - run two neighbouring exercises back to back.
Remove - take them all out of the programme.
x - clear the selection and leave everything as it is.
Selecting several exercises with cmd-click
Applying the numbers
Click Edit params and a box opens with Sets, Reps, Load, Rest, Time, Tempo and RPE, plus + Add param for anything else you prescribe, such as a hold or times per day. Type the numbers once and click Apply to write them to every exercise you selected.
Only the boxes you fill in are applied. Anything you leave blank stays exactly as it was on each exercise, so you can set the reps across three exercises without disturbing the sets you have already prescribed.
Applying the same sets and reps to two exercises
This replaces the old Apply Globally button. Select the exercises first, then edit.
Copying the numbers from one exercise to others
If you have already set one exercise up the way you want, you can copy its parameters and paste them onto other exercises rather than typing them again.
Open the ... menu on the exercise you want to copy from and choose Copy parameters, or click the row to select it and press cmd+C (ctrl+C on Windows).
Copying the parameters from an exercise
Then select the exercise or exercises you want to paste onto, using cmd-click to pick several, and press cmd+V (ctrl+V). Every selected exercise takes on the copied sets, reps, load and so on.
Pasting replaces all of the parameters on the selected exercises with the copied ones, including any you had already set. If you only want to change one or two numbers across several exercises, use Edit params above instead, which leaves the blanks alone.
These and the other keyboard shortcuts are listed under Actions in the top right of the Creator, so you do not need to remember them.
Finding the keyboard shortcuts in the Actions menu
Working faster
Once a programme is on the screen there are quicker ways in than the ... button at the end of each row.
Right-click a row
Right-click anywhere on an exercise row and the same menu opens under your cursor: View exercise, Edit title, Edit description, Edit parameters, Copy parameters, Save to my exercises, the closed captions and narration settings, Unlink superset where the exercise is in one, and Remove. Right-clicking selects that exercise at the same time.
Right-clicking an exercise row opens its menu
Three shortcuts worth learning
P - opens Edit params for everything you have selected, without going near the selection bar.
cmd+A (ctrl+A on Windows) - selects every exercise in the programme.
cmd+C and cmd+V (ctrl+C and ctrl+V) - copy one exercise's parameters and paste them onto every selected exercise.
Put them together and one exercise's numbers go onto the whole programme without opening a single menu. Set the first exercise up the way you want it, click its row, then press cmd+C, cmd+A, cmd+V.
Pasting replaces every parameter on the selected exercises, so cmd+A followed by cmd+V will overwrite numbers you have already prescribed further down the programme. To change one or two values across everything instead, press cmd+A and then P, and fill in only the boxes you want.
The full list
Press ? anywhere in the Creator, or choose See all shortcuts from the Actions menu, for the whole cheat sheet.
The keyboard shortcuts cheat sheet
The ones worth knowing after those three: Space selects or deselects the exercise you are on, alt with the up and down arrows moves a selected exercise through the programme and carries a superset as one, Delete takes out whatever is selected, N jumps to the library search to add an exercise, and Esc backs out of whatever you are in and clears the selection.
Changing the title, description or media
The same ... menu on the row lets you Edit title and Edit description for this programme only, without changing the exercise in the library. Save to my exercises keeps your edited version as your own exercise for future use.
The chevron beside the cog expands the row so you can see the exercise video and images while you set the numbers.
Expanding an exercise to see its video and images