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Workouts vs. Video Workouts: Which Should You Use?

Movement gives you two ways to structure training content: Workouts built from exercises and Video Workouts. Both get your members moving, but they're built for different formats. Here's how to pick the right one.

Written by Casey Berghuis

Use Workouts (with Exercises) when...

You want a structured, interactive training session made up of individual exercises — each with its own short demo video, sets, reps, rests, and timers.

Best for:

  • Strength and resistance training

  • Circuits, AMRAPs, and interval-style sessions

  • Programs where members track sets, reps, and weight over time

  • Sessions where members move at their own pace through each move

  • Each exercise in the workout builder uses a short clip to show proper form, rather than one long continuous video.

This makes it easy for members to follow along move by move, log their results, and see their progress over time.

👉 New to building one? See Workouts for a full walkthrough of the workout builder.

Use Video Workouts when...

You want members to press play and follow one continuous, long-form video from start to finish — like a full yoga flow, a HIIT class, or a guided run-through you filmed yourself.

Best for:

  • Full-length classes (yoga, Pilates, dance, boxing, etc.)

  • Sessions designed to be followed in real time, without pausing to log sets or reps

  • Content you've already filmed as one complete video

There's no exercise-by-exercise breakdown here — the video itself is the workout.

Quick comparison

Workouts (Exercises)

Video Workouts

Format

Individual exercises with short clips

One long-form video

Tracking

Members log sets, reps, weight

No structured logging

Best for

Strength, circuits, programs

Classes, flows, guided sessions

Pacing

Member-paced

Video-paced

Still not sure which fits your content? If your members need to track progress on individual moves, go with Workouts. If you just want them to hit play and follow along to a long form workout, go with Video Workouts.

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