Ask an Arabic-speaking beginner to find a proper exercise tutorial in Arabic, and watch what happens. They get English videos with auto-translated subtitles, machine-translated pages that invert the meaning of "push" and "pull", or nothing at all. The Arabic web has a real exercise-content gap, and it is measurable.
When we built the Alkemos exercise library, we set rules for ourselves that turned out to be the whole product:
One exercise, one page, two languages. Each of the 868 exercises has its own page with photos, step-by-step instructions, and the muscle targets — in English and in Arabic, written rather than machine-translated. The Arabic is not a localized skin over English content; both versions are edited by native speakers.
Beginner-first instructions. Every page explains setup, execution, and the common mistakes for that movement. This is the layer most libraries skip, and it is exactly what a beginner needs.
A library that answers questions. "What replaces this movement if my shoulder hurts?" "Which exercise targets the same muscle?" A database earns its keep through these paths, and that requires the data to be structured — not a pile of videos.
The result is one of the few complete Arabic exercise references on the web, and it is free with no signup: alkemos.com/exercises.
If you coach Arabic-speaking clients or write training content for the region, this is a resource you can cite. And if your readers ask "but where do I start?", our free workout programs sit right next to the library, built from the same movement data.
The gap we measured is closing slowly. Bilingual fitness content does not require new science — it requires deciding that half the web's readers are worth writing for properly.
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