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A bit confused with this one, maybe because of how it’s laid out but here is an image: http://d.pr/i/69SE

Only part I can think of how to do would be the notes section, but for the others its a little confusing for me since the content is laid out like a table.

How would I deal with something like that?

Hrm.  Just brainstorming:

1. Relationships.  Each ‘Day’ is in a ‘day’ channel.  The notes go there.  Each exercise in a ‘exercise’ channel- has fields for number of reps, alternatives, etc.  Each exercise then relates to a single day- show the table using reverse related tag.
2.  Matrix third party offering- you pretty much put them in a table.  Easier to see than explain.  So- all of it goes in a single entry.

If there always the same number of exercises, could just do it with a custom field for each bit of data.  Pretty much same as if you did it via Matrix field- except the number of fields/rows would be static.

Which one I’d go with would depend a lot on whether exercises work best independent of a particular day.

And how you’d do the table design is going to vary a bit with which option you go with.  Hope that sparks some ideas for you.

Thanks for the reply robin!

One thing that I did forget to mention is there will be 30 Days in each guide.. so what this actually is are workout routines and it will have Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, etc all the way up to Day 30.  So I’m not sure if it would work to set it up as individual channels that way, but what I thought could maybe work after reading your idea is creating a workout routine channel and then the channel fields for each day.. so would be something like:

day1_title

day1_exercise_1
day1_sets_1
day1_reps_1
day1_alt_1

day1_exercise_2
day1_sets_2
day1_reps_2
day1_alt_2

day1_exercise_3
day1_sets_3
day1_reps_3
day1_alt_3

day1_exercise_4
day1_sets_4
day1_reps_4
day1_alt_4

day1_notes

So it would be like this for each day going all the way down to day30.  I’m not sure if this is the best way to do this though or if there is an easier way.. any thoughts?

Hi nyc,

I’d like to chime in here, too.

Given the broader run-down, I think the Matrix option would provide you the best long term flexibility.

That way, each day (1 - 30) would be a channel entry and the list of day to day exercises would be rows in the Matrix.

That way you can manage each day independently, and modify the options if needed.

Just some thoughts.

Cheers!

ill look into matrix thakns dan!

Matrix is absolutely the way to go on this!

Hi nyc,

Excellent!

Is there anything else I can assist you with?

Cheers,