FROM THE VAULT
TRAIN SMARTER.
READ FIRST.
A Beginner's Guide to Training From YouTube (Without the Overwhelm)
The hardest part of starting to train from YouTube is the choosing. Here's a calm way through it: a few channels, a small week that repeats, and a plan for when you outgrow it.
READ →How to Track Progress When You Train From Videos
The video tells you what to do, never what you did. Here's how to keep the record that turns video training into measurable progress: what to track, how often, and how to progress week to week.
READ →Turn Your YouTube Channel Into a Training Programme (For Coaches)
A channel holds everything you ever filmed, in the order the algorithm likes. A client needs a sequence. Here's how coaches turn an upload archive into programmes people can train from.
READ →How to Train From Your Phone: A Home Setup That Sticks
Home training from your phone lives or dies on setup. A field guide to propping the screen, choosing between follow-alongs and reference clips, the small pile of equipment that covers most sessions, and logging without breaking your flow.
READ →Why You Never Do the Workouts You Save (and How to Fix It)
The collection grows by one, the training week stays the same. Why saving a workout scratches the itch that training was meant to scratch, and the four moves that close the gap.
READ →How to Build a Push/Pull/Legs Split from YouTube Videos
Push/pull/legs maps neatly onto a library of saved workout videos: three session types, four slots each. The week grid, how to fill it from your saves, and how to progress it.
READ →Using Notion as a Workout Tracker: Why It Breaks Down
The Notion workout tracker is a rite of passage for people who like systems. Here's why the template that plans training so well keeps failing at the gym, and what to hand the logging to instead.
READ →The Best Free Workout Tracker Apps in 2026
"Free" hides a lot of fine print in fitness apps. Here's what FitNotes, Strong, Hevy, Jefit and Fitness Vault actually give away, and where each one puts the wall.
READ →TikTok Workouts: Turning Saved Videos Into a Real Plan
TikTok is where you find the workout, never where you do it. Here's how to turn a Favourites tab full of saved clips into a plan you will actually train from.
READ →How to Organise Your Saved Workout Videos
Saved workouts pile up across three apps with no structure. Here's how to organise them by muscle group, equipment and difficulty into a library you will actually use.
READ →How to Save Instagram Workouts (and Actually Use Them)
Instagram's Saved folder is a black hole: great content buried with no structure and no way to log a session. Here's how to organise your saves and turn them into workouts you will actually do.
READ →Strong vs Hevy vs Fitness Vault: Which Workout Tracker Fits How You Train
Three apps that keep getting bundled into the same lists, even though they barely overlap. Here's who each one was built for, and how to pick yours.
READ →The 5 Fitness Apps Worth Keeping in 2026
Most people have a dozen fitness apps and use two. Here's which five actually earn their place — and an honest take on what each one is and isn't.
READ →How to Build a Workout Plan from YouTube Videos
A step-by-step guide to turning saved YouTube workouts into a structured weekly programme: split, tags, sessions, progression, and an 8-week run.
READ →The Best App for YouTube Workouts in 2026
Your Watch Later folder is a graveyard. An honest look at every method people use — playlists, notes apps, generic trackers — and the one that's actually built for video-based training.
READ →