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Exercise substitutes

The rack is taken, or the kit is not there. Pick the exercise and what you have, and this finds the closest thing that trains the same muscle group — or tells you there is not one.

What you are working with

The one that is blocked, whether the kit is taken or the movement hurts today.

Everything you can actually get to right now. The filter only narrows, so claiming kit you do not have is how you get a substitute you cannot do either.

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Substitutes

Fill in the boxes and press Find substitutes. Nothing is worked out until you ask for it.

  • The exercise you cannot do
  • What equipment you have

Nothing is sent anywhere. The list is filtered in this tab, and it narrows rather than widens - if nothing is left, that is the answer.

How a replacement exercise is chosen, and what disqualifies one every exercise in the library same primary muscle equipment you have closest match first And when nothing is left, it says so. A lat pulldown is not a squat.
It narrows and never widens. Nothing left is an answer, and a better one than a swap that trains something else.
Read how this is worked out