Swapping an exercise your gym can't do

When a routine calls for equipment that isn't on your gym's list, the active workout offers a stand-in for today — same sets, reps and rest, just a lift you can actually do — without touching the routine or any target.

What this does

A one-line banner sits above the set, before you start the exercise. It names a substitute chosen from lifts that train the same thing, weighted toward what you've actually logged before, so the starting weight isn't a guess. The offer only appears while nothing is logged on the original exercise yet; it never interrupts an exercise you've already started.

Step by step

Tap the banner to see the list of substitutes and pick one. Not now keeps the original exercise and carries on as planned.
On a superset, the swap covers the whole pair as one block: the banner walks you through a pick for each station your gym can't do, and any station it can do stays exactly as it is — same lift, same numbers, moved into the rebuilt pair. Nothing about the alternation changes.
The superset offer only shows before you log the first set of either station, because the pair can't be rewired mid-round. Once you've started, a station going missing is a Defer (moves the whole pair to the end of the queue) or an edit on the routine.

Good to know

A swap never moves a target. The original exercise holds, exactly as if you'd skipped it, and the substitute is logged to your history without advancing anything on its own — it's a stand-in for today, not a program change. To make a swap permanent, use ⇄ Substitute (or Group ⧉) on the routine itself. If the banner keeps offering swaps for equipment you do have, your gym's equipment list is wrong — update it in Settings.