How do I add exercise content to my workout app without creating it myself?
The practical way to add exercise content without creating it yourself is to call an exercise API. WorkoutDB provides ~873 ready-made exercises — names, instructions, target muscles, equipment, difficulty, and demonstration media — over REST, so you launch with a complete catalog instead of building one.
What you avoid
Building an exercise catalog in-house is a deceptively large project.
- Researching and writing accurate instructions for hundreds of movements.
- Filming or licensing demonstration video and photos, then transcoding and hosting them.
- Tagging every exercise with consistent muscle, equipment, and difficulty data.
- Translating it all for other markets.
What you get instead
With WorkoutDB you fetch the same content via API: ~873 exercises, each with a real demonstration video, an animated GIF, photos, step-by-step instructions, and structured fields (body part, target muscle, equipment, category, difficulty). It is searchable, filterable, and localized into four languages. Start free — 5,000 requests/month with no credit card required — and only pay when you go commercial.
Related questions
- Do I still own my app data?
- Yes. WorkoutDB supplies the exercise catalog and media; your user data, plans, and logging stay in your own app. You reference exercises by stable slugs/ids.
- How fast can I integrate it?
- Most teams are fetching exercises within minutes using the TypeScript SDK or the Postman collection, then rendering the returned media.
Build it on WorkoutDB
~873 exercises with demo video, ranked search, and four languages — over a clean REST API. Start free: 5,000 requests/month, no credit card.