Exercise Manager: Your Visual Training Library with Animations & Global Sharing
Every great training session starts with a great exercise. But creating professional-looking drills? That used to mean wrestling with clunky diagram software, screenshotting whiteboards, or — let's be honest — sketching on napkins.
What if designing training exercises was as intuitive as the drills themselves?
Introducing Exercise Manager — a canvas-based visual editor that lets you create, animate, and share professional training exercises. Build your library. Bring drills to life. Tap into a global community of coaches.
The Canvas: Where Exercises Come to Life
Forget PowerPoint. Forget basic drawing tools. Exercise Manager gives you a full-screen infinite canvas designed specifically for football training:
- Drag-and-drop simplicity — Place players, cones, balls, and goals exactly where you want them
- Infinite pan and zoom — Work on the full pitch or zoom into specific zones
- 15 element types — Everything from players and equipment to zones and annotations
- Configurable grid — Snap to 50-100cm spacing for precise positioning
- Real-time auto-save — Never lose your work
Everything You Need, Nothing You Don't
The element library covers every training scenario:
| Category | Elements | |----------|----------| | Players | Team players, Opponents (with numbers and colors) | | Equipment | Cones, Balls, Gates, Goals (4 sizes), Ladders, Mannequins | | Field Markings | Half pitch, Penalty area, Center circle, Mini pitches (3v3/5v5/7v7) | | Zones | Rectangular zones, Circular zones (fully resizable) | | Annotations | Movement arrows, Pass arrows, Text labels |
Every element can be rotated, resized, and locked in place. It's precise enough for professional academies, simple enough for volunteer coaches.
Animations: Show, Don't Tell
Static diagrams only tell half the story. Exercise Manager lets you animate your drills so players actually understand the movements:
- Create keyframes — Set up the starting positions
- Add movement sequences — Drag players to their next positions
- Set timing — Control how long each phase takes
- Preview in real-time — Watch your drill play out exactly as intended
- Export as GIF — Share animated drills anywhere
Why it matters: A single animated exercise can replace five minutes of explanation on the pitch. Show the run. Show the pass. Show the press. Players get it instantly.
Tactical Integration: Exercises That Mean Something
Here's where Exercise Manager becomes more than a drawing tool. Every exercise can be connected to your Style of Play:
- Link to specific subphases (build-up play, pressing triggers, counter-attacks)
- Connect to game situations your team is working on
- A simple 3-step wizard guides you through the connection
When you plan training sessions later, the system knows which exercises develop which tactical principles. No more guessing if your drills align with your philosophy.
Metadata That Organizes Itself
Every exercise carries rich metadata for easy organization:
- Duration — How long the exercise runs
- Player count — Minimum players needed
- Intensity — Low / Medium / High
- Focus — In Possession (IP) / Out of Possession (OP) / Both
- Custom tags — Your own categorization system
Search and filter your entire library in seconds. Find that pressing exercise from last season. Pull up all high-intensity drills. The organization happens automatically as you create.
The Global Community: Thousands of Exercises, One Click Away
Building a library from scratch takes years. What if you could tap into exercises from coaches worldwide?
Sharing Levels
| Level | Who Can See | |-------|-------------| | Private | Only you | | Club | All coaches in your club | | Public | The entire Driblo community |
Community Features
When you set an exercise to Public, it enters the Driblo Global Community:
- Browse thousands of exercises from coaches around the world
- Filter by intensity, focus, tags, and tactical phase
- One-click import to your club library
- Original creator always credited
- Rate and favorite exercises you love
That brilliant rondo variation a coach in Barcelona created? Import it. That pressing trap from a German academy? It's yours. The community grows smarter together.
Your Workflow, Simplified
Library View
Your home base. A grid of exercise cards with mini canvas previews, filters for intensity and focus, and quick actions to edit, duplicate, or delete.
Create & Edit Mode
Full-screen designer where the magic happens. Toolbar for quick element access, sidebar for fine-tuning, tabs for metadata and tactical connections. Everything auto-saves.
Animation Editor
Timeline-based interface for creating movement sequences. Add frames, set durations, preview instantly. Export when ready.
Share to Community
Toggle visibility to Public, add a description for discoverability, and your exercise joins the global library. Track views and imports to see your impact.
Why This Matters
Training exercises are the building blocks of player development. With Exercise Manager, you get:
- Professional quality without professional software
- Animations that communicate better than words
- Tactical meaning built into every drill
- Community wisdom from coaches worldwide
- Organization that scales with your library
It's not just a drawing tool. It's how modern coaches build, share, and evolve their training methodology.
Ready to build your exercise library? Open Exercise Manager, create your first drill, and see how good training design can feel.
