The Exercise Video API

Ship a full exercise video library through one REST API — HD demonstration videos, rich exercise metadata, AI workout generation, and personalization. No filming, no media pipeline, no content team required.

Exercise video API, explained

What is an exercise video API?

An exercise video API is a web service that delivers professional exercise demonstration videos and structured exercise data to your app or platform through REST endpoints. Instead of filming and managing thousands of clips, your product requests videos, metadata, and full workouts on demand and streams them to any device.

What does the Hyperhuman exercise video API include?

The Hyperhuman Content API includes a stock library of 2,000+ filmed exercises with metadata such as muscle groups, equipment, difficulty, and coaching cues, plus endpoints for AI workout generation, personalization, streaming, embeds, and session tracking. Content is available in 18 locales with white-label delivery.

How do I add exercise videos to my app?

Create a Teams workspace, get an API key on an API-enabled plan, and call the exercise and workout endpoints. Videos stream from pre-signed URLs, so there is no video hosting on your side. Most teams integrate the library and ship their first workout experience in days, not months.

Can the API generate complete workout videos?

Yes. The API assembles complete, ready-to-play workout videos from the exercise library based on goals, fitness level, duration, and available equipment. It can also recommend and adapt workouts per member over time, so each user gets a personalized program rather than a static playlist.

Who uses an exercise video API?

Fitness apps, digital health and wellness platforms, GLP-1 and weight-management programs, connected fitness hardware, gyms, and corporate wellness providers use the Hyperhuman API to launch or scale workout content without building a production studio or a content operations team.

What you get with the Content API

Capability	What members get
Stock exercise library	2,000+ filmed exercises with rich metadata, ready to use from day one.
AI workout generation	Generate complete workouts from goals, level, duration, and equipment. Pass an optional team methodology id to apply Programming DNA; omit means none.
Personalization & adaptation	Recommend and adapt workouts per member using progress signals and programming rules.
Streaming & embeds	Video streaming, interactive web players, and embeddable workout experiences.
Session tracking & insights	Track workout sessions and engagement events to power retention and reporting.
18 locales	Exercise names, cues, and voiceovers localized for international products.

How Hyperhuman compares to exercise database APIs

Most exercise APIs sell clips. Hyperhuman adds your own content, programs that adapt, and live events.

How Hyperhuman compares to exercise database APIs
	Media	AI workout generation	White-label delivery	Languages	AI-agent tooling	Live eventsNew
Hyperhuman	HD multi-angle videos + licensed classes	Generate, recommend, and adapt 1–24 week programs	Branded apps, embeds, and players	18	MCP server, llms.txt, AGENTS.md	Signed webhooks (5 events)
AscendAPI (ExerciseDB)	GIFs, plus videos and images (V2)	—	—	English	llms.txt	—
YMove	HD exercise video clips	Workout generator, fixed 4/8/12-week programs	White-label API, separate app builder	—	MCP server, llms.txt, TypeScript SDK	—
WorkoutX	720p 3D-animated clips	Workout generator, 2–16 week programs	—	7	MCP server, llms.txt, SDKs	—
MuscleWiki	Multi-angle demo videos	Curated routines	—	14	MCP server, llms.txt, SDKs	—
API Ninjas	Text data, images on Premium	—	—	—	MCP server, llms.txt	—

Based on each vendor's public documentation. Last reviewed: November 2026. “—” = not offered or not publicly documented.

Built for developers — and their AI agents

Authenticate with an API key and call versioned REST endpoints. The OpenAPI spec, LLM bundle, agent integration guide, and MCP server are all public — no signup needed to evaluate the surface.

List workouts

curl "https://content.api.hyperhuman.cc/v1/orgs/{organizationId}/workouts?limit=20" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: $HYPERHUMAN_API_KEY"

Generate a personalized workout

curl -X POST \
  "https://content.api.hyperhuman.cc/v1/orgs/{organizationId}/workouts/generate" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: $HYPERHUMAN_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "endUserProfileDetails": { "age": 28, "fitnessLevels": ["beginner"] },
    "exerciseSources": ["premium_stock"],
    "durationOptions": { "minMinutes": 10, "maxMinutes": 15 },
    "categoryId": "<from GET /v1/workouts/metadata>"
  }'

Response (trimmed)

{
  "name": "Beginner Full Body Express",
  "totalDurationSeconds": 720,
  "instances": [
    { "kind": "single-exercise", "durationSeconds": 40,
      "exercise": { "id": "64a1…", "name": "Bodyweight Squats", … } },
    { "kind": "rest", "durationSeconds": 20 }
  ]
}

Using Cursor, Claude Code, or Copilot?

Paste this prompt into your coding agent to integrate against the documented API surface:

Integrate the Hyperhuman Content API into this project. Before writing any code, read https://content.api.hyperhuman.cc/AGENTS.md and follow its conventions verbatim. Use https://content.api.hyperhuman.cc/openapi.json as the contract and https://content.api.hyperhuman.cc/llms-full.txt as the per-endpoint digest. Base URL: https://content.api.hyperhuman.cc — authenticate every request with the X-Api-Key header. Every error response is { "error": { "code", "message" } } — switch on error.code. Paginate by following links.next. Do not send parameters that are not in the OpenAPI spec.

Exercise video API FAQ

How much does the exercise video API cost?

API access is part of the Platform and Ultra plans, with Enterprise pricing for high-volume or custom scope. You can create a free Hyperhuman Teams workspace to explore the content; API credentials come with API-enabled plans and trials. See the pricing page for current plans.

Do I need to produce my own exercise videos?

No. The stock library covers strength, mobility, cardio, and recovery movements out of the box. You can also upload your own footage and let Hyperhuman's AI editing turn it into structured, streamable exercise and workout videos under your brand.

How is this different from an exercise database API?

Exercise database APIs return text and images. Hyperhuman delivers professional videos plus the intelligence layer: workout generation, personalization, streaming, and session tracking — so you ship a complete workout experience, not just raw exercise data.

Can I white-label the workout experience?

Yes. Players and embeds carry your branding, and the white-label Club app gives you a fully branded iOS and Android member app powered by the same content and personalization engine.

Is there developer documentation?

Yes. The interactive API reference covers authentication, exercise and workout endpoints, generation, streaming, and sessions, with an OpenAPI spec you can import into your tooling.

Is Hyperhuman an alternative to ExerciseDB, YMove, MuscleWiki, or API Ninjas?

Yes, for teams that need more than raw exercise data. Those APIs provide exercise databases with GIFs, clips, or text; Hyperhuman adds HD multi-angle video, licensed classes, AI workout generation, personalization, streaming delivery, white-label apps, and an MCP server — a complete content and intelligence layer rather than a lookup database.

Can the API apply our programming methodology?

Yes. Workout and plan generate accept an optional team methodologyProfileId so Programming DNA is applied explicitly. Unknown, personal, or inactive ids return an error. If you omit the field, none is applied. See Programming DNA.