How to Organize Your Workouts by Muscle Group

Sorting your saved exercises by muscle group turns a chaotic pile of clips into a quick-reference library. Here's how to set it up.

Step 1: Use a clean set of muscle groups

Don't overcomplicate it. These nine cover almost everything:

• Chest, Back, Shoulders
• Biceps, Triceps
• Quads, Hamstrings/Glutes, Calves
• Core

Every exercise you save gets filed under one (or two) of these. That's the whole taxonomy.

Step 2: Group them into a split you'll actually run

Muscle groups roll up into common splits:

• Push / Pull / Legs — chest+shoulders+triceps / back+biceps / quads+hams+calves
• Upper / Lower — simple 4-day option
• Full body — one exercise per major group, 2–3×/week

Whatever you pick, aim to train each major muscle group at least twice a week.

Step 3: Tag every saved clip the moment you save it

This is where most systems die. If you plan to "organize later," you won't. Tag by muscle group at the moment of saving — or use a tool that does it automatically.

Step 4: Add a second axis — equipment

Muscle group answers "what am I training." Equipment answers "what can I do right now." Together they're unbeatable: "back + cables," "shoulders + dumbbells." (More: find workouts by equipment.)

The shortcut

Doing all of this by hand is the chore that created your messy camera roll in the first place. Save My Workout auto-sorts every clip you save by muscle group, equipment, and creator — so the system runs itself and you can just train.