Import · Workout apps · Checked 2026-10-22

Move your GymBook history into TrainRec

GymBook Pro can export your exercises, logs and body measurements as CSV. Export them and hand the files to your assistant, which moves your history into TrainRec.

How it gets in

Best results: your assistant. A connected assistant reads any export whole, fixes dates and units as it goes, and can bring in food and measurements, not just workouts. Coach, the chat built into TrainRec, is best for telling it what you did and for small pasted pieces. The other routes are there when you'd rather not involve either.

  • Through your assistantConnect or CoachBest results

    Export the file from GymBook, attach it in your connected assistant's chat (Claude today) and say "Import this into TrainRec". It reads the whole file, sorts out odd dates, units and exercise names, and moves everything in with TrainRec's import tools, as one batch you can undo in one tap. With Coach, the chat built into TrainRec, describe what you did ("log my last two weeks: bench 3x5 at 185 on Monday...") or paste a small piece of the export, up to about a couple of weeks at a time. If something looks off afterward, just say so and it fixes it.

  • No export? Use screenshotsConnect plan

    If you'd rather not pay for the GymBook export: Take screenshots of your current program and your last two or three weeks in GymBook, attach them in your connected assistant's chat and say "Set up my routine in TrainRec from these." It doesn't need every workout you've ever done, just enough to see your routine and your current weights.

    Each entry your assistant adds is marked with its name in Changes, so you can check what came in and undo anything that's wrong. Screenshots work with a connected assistant. Coach takes typed messages only, so tell Coach your routine or usual meals in words instead.

Export from GymBook

Your exercises, workout logs and body measurements, as CSV or XML. Exporting needs a paid GymBook plan.

We couldn't find an official GymBook help page for this export, so these steps come from the app itself and may have moved.

  1. Find the export. GymBook's export is in its settings, as part of GymBook Pro. Choose CSV.
  2. Save the files. Save them to Files or send them to yourself.
  3. Give them to your assistant. Attach the files in your assistant's chat and say "Import this into TrainRec".
  4. Check it in TrainRec. Your history shows up on the calendar and in your records. Something look off? Ask your assistant to fix it. You can also undo the whole batch from Changes.

Good to know

  • Use the CSV export, not GymBook's database backup. The backup only restores into GymBook.

Sources

  1. GymBook

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