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Show HN: Workout.lol - a web app to easily create a workout routine
Hey everyone, I here is a small open-source project I've been
working on lately. I'd love to hear your thoughts and improvement
ideas :) GitHub: [github.com/Vincenius/workout-
lol](https://github.com/Vincenius/workout-lol)
Author : Vincenius
Score : 859 points
Date : 2023-07-10 06:01 UTC (16 hours ago)
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| stevofolife wrote:
| I just want to say I personally like the UX. Good job!
| aiibe wrote:
| Very cool web app!
| herculity275 wrote:
| I do feel like most beginner/intermediate lifters with gym access
| would be better served just picking a standard full-body workout
| routine (e.g. GZCLP) and sticking to it. Figuring out which
| muscle groups you'd like to be targeting with specialized
| exercises is not something you should be doing as a novice.
| Aerroon wrote:
| > _would be better served just picking a standard full-body
| workout routine (e.g. GZCLP)_
|
| But many people aren't going to follow those routines. It's my
| impression that deadlifts and squats aren't good exercises for
| this use case because of the danger they present.
|
| Sure, they might be "completely safe" when "done correctly",
| but somebody using an app and trying to mimic exercises they
| see in videos or pictures is only guessing at whether they do
| the exercises correctly. To build muscle you need progressive
| overload, but that also means that "doing the exercises
| correctly" gets even more difficult. With most other lifts it's
| not that big of a deal, but with squats and deadlifts the
| weights get really high. A dropped barbell with squat weights
| can easily lead to injury. Hell, it can lead to injury when
| it's even just lifted the wrong way.
|
| And when you remove those two lifts then a lot of 'standard
| full body workout' regimes don't work anymore.
| lukas099 wrote:
| Post proof that deadlifts and squats present unique danger.
| kjkjadksj wrote:
| Compare a barbell squat to a bodyweight pistol squat. What
| does a beginner hitting failure look like with either? For
| the pistol squat you can't get up and just maybe fall over
| 1 foot onto your yoga mat, or just use your other leg to
| balance and stand. The barbell back squat failure is
| absolutely ugly in comparison. You are down and can't get
| up, maybe you try and push anyway with your back vs legs,
| thats a lot of weight supported by an out of form spine
| now, ooff. Knowing how and when to safely bail and drop
| weight out of an olympic lift is not something any beginner
| would just naturally know to do.
| Jcampuzano2 wrote:
| This is why there is such a thing as a power rack/squat
| rack. You can fail completely safely with this equipment.
|
| If you are an olympic lifter, almost everyone is taught
| how to bail these lifts from the beginning with the empty
| bar. Most people aren't and lift in racks built just to
| be able to safely lift heavy. Its on you if you don't
| actually set up the safety bars for yourself.
| matwood wrote:
| As humans we squat and dead lift all day. Every single person
| should learn how to do those two movements with some
| proficiency and intention. They should be part of basis of
| any weight program focused on health and longevity.
|
| And while progressive overload is needed, no one is going
| from the bar to massive weight overnight. Also, not everyone
| needs to have the goal of being a power lifter. Peter Attia
| talks about wanting his older clients to be able to a 45lb
| kettlebell squat, the average weight of a toddler grandkid
| for example.
| somethingreen wrote:
| That specific suggested program is a 5x3 with 85% effort.
| People following it will be lifting considerable percentage
| of their body weight very quickly. Without proper muscle
| control, joint conditioning, knowledge of how to deal with
| minor injuries etc. Good program with a trainer, ok for a
| highly motivated individual with strength goals, terrible
| for an average beginner.
| goostavos wrote:
| >People following it will be lifting considerable
| percentage of their body weight very quickly.
|
| That's what we call a benefit. The reason those people
| are suddenly lifting their body weight? They've gotten
| stronger! Deadlift from day 1, people. Your back will
| thank you. If you're worried about it, ask someone to
| check your form at the gym (most people are friendly!),
| or just post it online (I did this when I first started
| lifting).
|
| Being able to bend over and pick something heavy up off
| the ground is a pretty fundamentally important human
| movement.
| datavirtue wrote:
| Not with weight on their back. You should seek professional
| advice for weight training. I learned that trainers don't
| even let people touch a bar for a year as they repair and
| strengthen their core. It's all body weight and PVC pipes
| to develop form.
| jayGlow wrote:
| if your trainers aren't letting you touch weights for a
| year you need better trainers. form is important but
| perfect is the enemy of good enough. if you try and be
| absolutely perfect before progressing at all you'll never
| move an inch.
| goostavos wrote:
| These threads are always insane. You can pick up a bar
| the first day you step into a gym. The body is an
| adaptation machine. Apply stress. Adapt. Repeat.
|
| A trainer spending a year "strengthening your core" is
| called theft.
| procinct wrote:
| Not trying to argue with you, but that sounds more like a
| rehab programme than a programme designed for someone who
| is fully able and just wants to start resistance
| training. The bar is generally a fine starting point for
| most people but smaller dumbbells could also be used if
| the bar was too heavy. Also, you should be squatting in a
| cage with safeties, which mitigates a lot of the risk
| when squatting. It absolutely should not take a healthy
| abled person a year to start squatting 20kg.
| matwood wrote:
| > Not with weight on their back.
|
| Yeah, people do worse in real life. They pick up stuff of
| varying weights all the time at odd angles.
| Jcampuzano2 wrote:
| Unless you are elderly or disabled in some kind of way,
| if you can't survive putting a bar on your back and
| squatting, you are a weak (physically) human. I'm not
| joking.
|
| I'm a man and know more about mens standards, but if you
| can't back squat at least 1x your bodyweight you are
| probably pretty weak. Similar for deadlift. And these are
| just bare minimums. Most humans are FAR more capable than
| this. Maybe just multiply these by 0.5 for a women just
| based on genetic strength differences.
|
| You can start with the bar if you want, you will
| eventually learn through experience based on your body
| your form for squatting. And the internet as well as
| being able to record yourself are readily available for
| practically everyone. Given that you can definitely learn
| the basics of form without necessary needing a trainer.
| kjkjadksj wrote:
| Building muscle happens in the kitchen more than the gym. For
| stuff like squats, I agree a barbell squat for beginners is
| just to aggressive. Holding the bar alone is just
| uncomfortable until you develop significant back muscles to
| hold it off your spine. Theres plenty of squat variations
| though that don't require moving a disk slipping amount of
| weight to get a good burn in your legs.
| capableweb wrote:
| This strikes me as a general comment about workouts, not about
| this application specifically, correct? I see nothing to
| indicate this application is targeting novices in particular.
| hk__2 wrote:
| I don't see anything either that indicate it's targetting
| people experienced with the matter; it just targets everyone.
| suddenclarity wrote:
| That's kinda the issue. Who does it target? You pick an
| equipment and a muscle, and it builds a workout with six
| exercises to target that one specific muscle. Your
| performance will suffer and it will take countless of gym
| sessions to go through the full body. Who would benefit from
| this workout?
|
| It's one thing to use such a tool to find new exercises to
| target a specific body part but then you should probably use
| the source the tool is importing videos from, not build a
| full workout just to see.
| rob74 wrote:
| TBF, you can also select several muscle groups. But yes,
| consulting a specialist is definitely better...
| ghosty141 wrote:
| The issue with most of those workouts is that they often
| incorporate ,,unhealthy" exercises like squats (with weights)
| or situps. I find it really hard to find one that focuses on
| health rather than building muscle.
| holoduke wrote:
| Building muscle is possibly the most healthy thing you can
| do. Within limits if course. But it ensures a framework
| arround your sensitive ligaments your body build becomes
| straight and symmetrical. All ingredients for a injury free
| life. It should be mandatory for everyone to exercise 3 times
| a week and build up some muscle. Just like the good old cave
| days.
| matwood wrote:
| Sigh...squats considered unhealthy? A new lifter should be
| focused on form and technique for every weighted exercise.
|
| Muscle does not 'build' without eating. Size comes from
| calories plus progressive loading.
|
| As for as health goes, every person (particularly those
| untrained) would be more healthy with more strength. More
| strength means less likely to injure oneself in everyday
| movements and less likely to have events like falls as they
| get older. And to loop back around to the top, squats are key
| part of this type of health.
| bmj wrote:
| Strength training !== bulking up
|
| High (comparative) weight + low reps builds strength (and
| muscle recruitment) without (necessarily) building lots of
| new muscle fibers. Muscle hypertrophy happens most often with
| lower weights and higher repetitions, plus loads of calories.
| A program like "Starting Strength" is not about hypertrophy.
|
| Any exercise is potentially "unhealthy," particularly if it
| requires specialized movements. You can learn proper form for
| "base" lifts like the squat and deadlift without any
| equipment at first.
| alfons_foobar wrote:
| ... how are squats "unhealthy"?
| faichai wrote:
| If you're new to lifting, your form is likely to be
| terrible, it's easy to do some damage to your lower back
| and knees.
| taccicardia wrote:
| i've seen this mentality floating around and i don't
| quite understand it. i think the real problem is this
| sense of competition and machismo where new lifters feel
| like they have to be good at it on day one and can't
| employ a little humility and patience to work on their
| mobility. these movements are essential and it blows my
| mind the excuses people will make not do do them.
|
| to anyone here who routinely jumps to one plate without
| warming up and struggles to hit depth: know that i pity
| you, but you can still back off and get good at these
| movements if you really care.
| hospitalJail wrote:
| I'm a fan of squats, I did 340lbs last week, heaviest
| 385lbs.
|
| I got injured doing a 225lb warmup on squats. If I had to
| diagnose what actually happened, I'm overly tight and the
| synovial fluid caused some injury.
|
| But that injury lasted 1-2 months, I just didn't squat.
| I've been neglecting stretching for to long.
| ulucs wrote:
| If you are new to lifting, you probably shouldn't be
| handling weights that can damage your lower back and
| knees. You will learn the correct form as you progress.
| Ego is more dangerous than squats.
| kjkjadksj wrote:
| This is why bodyweight or lower weight squats like goblet
| are safer. Failure with bodyweight squat doesnt put you
| out two months. Very easy to add too much weight in the
| squat rack. Asking beginners to know good form on day 1
| squatting means they need a trainer.
| lukas099 wrote:
| Just to let you know there is not really any good
| evidence for anything you are saying.
| anakaine wrote:
| Not unless you chuck a whole lot of weight on
| inappropriately. The advice for almost all newbies is to
| start with the bar. Even then they could put some weight
| on and still not be at any risk at all. The issues don't
| show up for quite some time with inappropriate form, or u
| til quite a bit of weight is put on prematurely. Starting
| off with dome youtube videos is just fine. Getting help
| when you eventually want to progress further and get more
| serious is recommended.
| morgengold wrote:
| Why are Squats with weights "unhealthy"?
| datavirtue wrote:
| Because you can hold a squat with only body weight and
| improve faster that squatting with barbells.
| OkayPhysicist wrote:
| That's absurd, like saying "You can walk a mile and
| improve faster than running a marathon" is absurd. To
| anyone who isn't out of shape to the point of immobility,
| body weight squats are barely exertion.
| lukas099 wrote:
| What is your evidence that bodyweight squats let you
| 'improve faster' than barbell squats.
|
| I admit you're probably right if your goal is to get good
| at bodyweight squat...
| OkayPhysicist wrote:
| Squats are not unhealthy. They are probably the single most
| useful exercises you can put your body through: high exertion
| activity for your largest muscle groups means it's a better
| calorie burner than most people's cardio routines, they work
| out your core and other stabilizing muscles, which helps you
| not hurt yourself anywhere else in the gym, and they (in
| conjunction with deadlifts) build the muscles human beings
| actually use to move heavy objects.
| siva7 wrote:
| Could you explain why this is considered bad to just pick the
| muscle groups you want to train as a novice?
| taccicardia wrote:
| let's consider two movements: a deadlift and a prone
| hamstring curl.
|
| the deadlift is something you've done a million times whether
| you know it or not, though the novice is probably more
| uncoordinated than they realize at higher weights. like it
| would be a struggle if not dangerous to move a couch, for
| example. this is a very practical skill to develop, and
| you're still "targeting" the same muscle group as...
|
| ...a prone hamstring curl. how often do you find yourself
| prone and flexing your knees against a load? probably never,
| right? how do you contextualize a movement like this to
| someone's day to day? what i mean is, what is even compelling
| about a movement like this and what does it actually _mean_
| to someone just starting out?
|
| i'm the world's biggest proponent of "keep it simple, stupid"
| when it comes to working out, especially as a novice. super
| detailed split routines are more often than not overwhelming
| and set people up to develop bad habits while never
| meaningfully addressing the core issue that drive many people
| to go to the gym in the first place: people suck at moving.
| sjamaan wrote:
| "Targeted" exercises tend to be body-builder type stuff which
| can only really be done with light weights. Instead, bigger
| compound movements like squat and deadlift can be
| incrementally trained leading up to much, much heavier
| weights and they train the body as an integrated whole.
|
| In daily life, the body is used to move with many muscle
| groups working together. By using a targeted exercise, you
| can create muscle imbalances and injury is more likely
| (especially stuff like tendonitis).
| lukas099 wrote:
| It's not actually bad, it's just not the current Internet
| fad. If you like to work out that way, you should do it.
| hospitalJail wrote:
| Maybe, although do people have success doing strength
| training individual muscle groups? I've only heard of this
| for bodybuilding.
|
| I don't think I'd put a beginner on a bodybuilding program.
|
| Not to mention, compounds mean learning the correct form
| for 4 lifts, where isolation means learning the form for
| ~30 lifts.
| lukas099 wrote:
| If you are deep into powerlifting or have been lifting
| for 15 years, sure, there will be a noticeable difference
| between training for strength and training for
| hypertrophy.
| matwood wrote:
| Lack of time is one of the biggest reasons people stop
| lifting. Standard full body programs are going to be more
| efficient time wise than picking muscle groups. For example,
| a program with a lot of rows and presses needs little to no
| biceps or tricep work.
| Brendinooo wrote:
| Not sure exactly what you're arguing here but I think I
| disagree quite a bit.
|
| I've been lifting for about six months, and I think this is the
| longest stretch I've been able to go without getting bored with
| it, because I'm at a gym this time and have access to a ton of
| equipment.
|
| Variety can really make a difference, and some will say it's
| good for your muscles anyways to do different exercises that
| are targeting the same muscle groups.
|
| And the point of apps like this is that it makes it easy to say
| "today is push day, push is chest and triceps, show me chest
| and triceps exercises." What's wrong with a novice saying that?
| maerF0x0 wrote:
| Variety can make the difference in motivation. If that's what
| you lack, then so be it.
|
| But it's detrimental to a progressive/scienctific-like
| approach to lifting.
|
| We want to know that over time we're getting progressive
| overload. That means you need consistency to watch that 1)
| The weight goes up for the same reps, or 2) the reps go up
| for the same weight (or 3, both). Unfortunately exercises are
| not direct replacements for each other meaning you cannot
| simply do the same for a variety of (eg:) bicep curls.
|
| Once someone gets past what linear progression can achieve
| (see Strong lifts 5x5 app for example) then we start to do
| periodization or other plateau breaking patterns.
| bjornasm wrote:
| >But it's detrimental to a progressive/scienctific-like
| approach to lifting.
|
| Uh, sources for that? As I powerlifter I have lifted with
| world class lifter who have a huge variations in their
| exercises. Bands,chains, boxes, pause/no pause, grip width,
| stance width.
| Brendinooo wrote:
| I'm stronger than I was six months ago. Seems like a good
| thing. If that stops being true, I can adjust later.
|
| Variety has also helped me do weightlifting without
| injuring myself. I hurt my back pretty badly doing back
| squats, probably because I was leaning forward too far,
| probably because I was overcompensating due to quad
| dominance. Because of an app like this website I was able
| to discover and try different squat variants that are
| helping me fill out the core and glute muscles I was
| lacking. Again, seems like a good thing.
| lukas099 wrote:
| Post proof that exercise variety is detrimental to
| achieving lifting goals. I'll concede that if you are
| competing in a strength sport, it is best to focus on the
| movements in that sport.
| procinct wrote:
| They're likely just meaning it makes it harder to
| progressive overload. If you stick to a programme, you
| know it's just about modifying weight, reps, rest, time
| under tension etc. But if you are changing exercises
| constantly, it can be difficult to know what weight or
| rep range will get the right results from that exercise
| since it's not really comparable to another exercise.
| lukas099 wrote:
| It might be harder to _track_ your progress, but progress
| will be made nevertheless.
| blitzar wrote:
| I have found it essential to have a plan on the day. No
| thinking or deciding, just look at the piece of paper and it
| says do X 3x10 times, and you do it. Then look at the next
| thing to do.
|
| Do the thinking every 4-6 weeks as you rotate the plan - but
| also repetition lets you track some progress (reps / weight /
| how hard set was).
| anakaine wrote:
| This is so incredibly important. As a beginner you can
| basically hit anything often enough and see progress. Once
| you hit intermediate and the gains slow down you really do
| need to walk in with a plan. The plan let's you not think
| and just work. Just working and not thinking, and basically
| just being told what to do (even if it is just telling
| yourself) let's you get through the workout repeatably, and
| with experiencing less of the grind. It also means you hit
| the body parts with incremental progressive overload in a
| planned and repeatable fashion, causing growth. And every
| 6-10 weeks you get the fun of changing it up.
|
| And then there's the days where stuff doesn't quite work,
| but you have turned up anyhow. Those are days I chalk up to
| fun.
| Brendinooo wrote:
| I've been using the Strong app to save workout templates
| (in a broad push/pull/leg framework) so I have a list of
| stuff to do each time, but if I'm bored with an exercise or
| (more typically) someone's been using the rack for 30
| minutes and I need to move on, that's when I'll look for an
| alternative exercise. Apps like Strong or Fitbod or this
| new site are great in this scenario - can filter by what
| you have and will show you how to do it.
| matwood wrote:
| > without getting bored with it
|
| You're not going to like this, but lifting is about finding
| joy in the grind (like a lot of life). Gains are often
| incremental, but add up over time. For me, lifting is my
| alone time to listen to music and think. The lifting part is
| automatic.
| davedx wrote:
| Gatekeeping weight lifting? Come on. Let people work out
| the way that works for them.
| matwood wrote:
| I don't think of it as gate keeping at all. I'm being
| honest that anything you do for a long period of time
| becomes about discipline and not motivation. People say
| things to me like 'you must really like working out!' I
| don't think about it in a like not like way. It's just
| something I know is good for me and I do it.
|
| And the reason I mentioned accepting the grind is because
| exercise is a life long activity. There is only so much
| novelty, so the faster someone finds the discipline to do
| it beyond novelty motivation, the better.
| Brendinooo wrote:
| I've clocked 4300 miles on my running app since 2011, after
| growing up hating running, so I'm aware of the grind. But
| there are different ways to run and some are more enjoyable
| to different people. I have to believe this is true in the
| lifting world as well.
|
| If I would have told someone "I don't like running on the
| treadmill or on the track, it's super boring", the better
| response would have been to tell me that there are
| different ways to find enjoyment in running rather than
| just saying I should suck it up. For me, that was running
| in flat-ish urban-ish settings to take in the sights while
| signing up for an occasional race to give me something to
| work for. I never liked running in the rain so I
| just...didn't, unless I was on a training plan for an
| upcoming race or otherwise couldn't work around it. And so
| on.
|
| For my lifting: variety, access to a sauna, and a public
| setting that allows me to watch and talk to other people
| have helped a lot. I'll see how far it carries me! (And I
| welcome more advice for making it enjoyable.)
| matwood wrote:
| Of course find what works for you, but 4300 miles even in
| your ideal setting ends up being discipline based over
| motivation. By that point you're running because you're
| supposed to run, not necessarily because you want to run.
| That's what I mean about lifting.
|
| There's only so much novelty in a squat, so you have to
| find something beyond that. For me it was powerlifting,
| for others it's getting bigger, and others it's getting
| better in their sport.
|
| Also, I deal with people and complex problems all day
| long. The gym is my retreat. I speak to no one and focus
| on the relatively simple task of picking up a weight.
| hultner wrote:
| Not sure I agree. At a point in my youth I ran 3000 miles
| in a year based on motivation (college competition, I was
| really motivated to keep the number one spot in the
| leaderboard).
| goostavos wrote:
| >What's wrong with a novice saying that?
|
| Only real risk is people getting confused or frustrated as to
| why they're not making any progress. "Doing a bunch of stuff"
| is very different from _training_.
|
| Progressive overload is the thing that needs drilled into the
| newbie's head. None of this is complicated, but doing a bunch
| of random stuff every time you enter the gym is a really good
| way to feel like your doing something all while accomplishing
| very little.
|
| I've been lifting for almost a decade at this point. My
| philosophy on it boils down to: it's grueling, so... if
| you're going to do it, you should get the most bang for your
| buck. That said, changing up the routine _in a structured_
| manner is definitely a good idea very once and awhile (if
| only to deload for a bit).
| bjornasm wrote:
| I disagree with you. Its over 10 years ago I medaled in an
| national powerlifting competition. Nowadays I just want to lift
| some weights, and have no intention of following a set program
| ad I have no end goals other than to keep healthy and fit. I'm
| pretty sure im not the only one who likes some variation
| without going full crossfit.
| herculity275 wrote:
| But you're _not_ a novice, you clearly know what you 're
| doing. I'm saying that somebody who's just starting out and
| doesn't know how to do a proper squat shouldn't be tinkering
| with their sets too much.
| [deleted]
| Daneel_ wrote:
| "Just picking a standard full-body workout routine" - that's
| the issue, I have no idea what the names of standard routines
| are or where to find them. I'd love to know several. I know
| none.
|
| Like many things, knowing the name or term of what you're
| looking for is the gateway - without that you're stuck
| floundering.
| 50 wrote:
| see https://stronglifts.com/, reasonable program/philosophy
| to abide by - i came across it on here on hn, if i recall
| correctly
| ulucs wrote:
| Starting strength is the most classic one:
| https://startingstrength.com/get-started/programs
|
| Or you know, you could go into a couple of fitness forums and
| see which programs pop up again and again.
| somethingreen wrote:
| Please don't do SS as a beginner, unless you are sure
| lifting heavy is what you want and are positive you'll be
| able to get through setbacks.
|
| Absolutely, read SS the book and apply its wisdom to
| corresponding lifts in the bodybuilding program you'll pick
| up instead. Then, once you are comfortable in the gym,
| slowly progress to add heavier lifts/sessions into your
| program. From there decide if you want to prioritize
| either.
| lukas099 wrote:
| The main problem with SS for me is that encourages you to
| push through extreme exhaustion, because weight resets
| are based on failure to complete reps, and completely
| ignore Rate of Perceived Exertion (RPE). I got a lot
| stronger on SS, but the last few weeks were killer and
| ended with injuries for me.
| anthonypasq wrote:
| starting strength was designed by a high school football
| coach who was trying to make high school athletes stronger.
| its a terrible framework for the average joe who wants to
| look better with their shirt off.
| maerF0x0 wrote:
| Here's one that I came up with. Little science, but it's
| worked wonders on me.
|
| Simply do 5 sets of 5 reps of the following exercises in
| groups. Do 2-3x per week as your schedule allows. You can
| super set the push/pull exercise, but not the leg. Take no
| less than 1 minute rest between the PP supersets, or the leg
| sets.
|
| 1. Bench press , Row, Squat
|
| 2. Overhead press, Pull up (weighted if need be), Deadlift
|
| 3. Bicep curl, Tricep press, calves
|
| 4. Abs, core, or lower back (1x per week)
|
| Other details
|
| - if the workout takes longer than you have time for, you can
| break up the 1-4 across more days (eg lift 4 or 6 days a week
| with pattern of 1&3, 2&4, 1&3, 2&4 (1&3, 2&4)
|
| - add some weight every workout, even if it's the minimum 2.5
| plates, or buy 1.25 micro plates to bring to the gym - once
| you are unable to add weight every workout, start to try and
| add weight every week - Every 12 weeks take a 1 week deload
| where you do 3x 10 reps of the above with about 50% of what
| you can actually lift
|
| If you're a "hard gainer" continue with the above and for a
| 12 week block try the following tactics.
|
| 1. Eat a costco rotisserie chicken each day (or equivalent
| calories + grams of protein in any other food)
|
| 2. Add a Liter, Half Gallon, or Gallon of milk (progressively
| experiment starting small), Or equivalent calories and grams
| of protein
|
| If you follow the above consistently for a year or two you
| will be ahead of something like 95% of gym goers. You might
| be behind optimal, but you'll be way ahead of most people.
| anigbrowl wrote:
| You can figure out the basics in a couple of hours of
| reading. You don't need to process it all at once. I started
| lifting with some dumbbells I found on the street and just
| practiced moving them around slowly with light weights
| attached while figuring out which muscles different movements
| activated, then searched for simple terms like 'dumbbell
| shoulder exercises'.
| datavirtue wrote:
| Absolute waste of time unless you are able to do dragon
| flags and hold a horse stance for more than a minute.
| People's hips and core are jelly and you are suggesting
| they start lifting weights?
| anigbrowl wrote:
| GP was asking about terminology, most of your other
| assumptions are also wrong.
| [deleted]
| taccicardia wrote:
| [dead]
| hospitalJail wrote:
| 100% with you. A few full body lifts + cardio is what most
| people need.
|
| This might be useful for physical therapists or body builders
| though.
| datavirtue wrote:
| The amount of horrible, dumb fitness advice on here is almost
| surprising.
| hospitalJail wrote:
| "Post bod"
| blfr wrote:
| Great app from the UX/UI perspective. The progression from saving
| in the browser and only requiring an account later is very nice
| as well. Perhaps the only thing missing is a start over button.
|
| As for exercise selection, it returns a lot of niche moves and
| exotic variants. Which makes it interesting but probably not a
| good fit for someone who would be most likely to use this app,
| ie. isn't an intermediate+ body builder already. Occasionally the
| recommendations are just bad (crunches).
|
| Certainly a welcome addition for someone looking for variety
| though.
| rmshin wrote:
| First off, this is an amazing app as others here have already
| mentioned-congratulations for launching!
|
| In terms of improvement ideas (not that you're short of
| additional suggestions), I've recently started going to the gym
| again to train for a specific sport (100m/200m sprints). I need
| do a lot of plyo & power work and this involves more
| advanced/specific movements such as cleans, snatches, box jumps,
| etc.
|
| Would really be amazing to expand the workouts to involve
| different kinds of training (e.g. strength vs power vs speed vs
| stability ...). Will look into the project later and see if I can
| contribute somehow, and happy to discuss further if you're
| interested :)
| Vincenius wrote:
| Thanks! Sounds like a good idea.
|
| Feel free to check out the repository and let me know if you
| have any questions :)
| wkillerud wrote:
| You might do well to clarify that you use MuscleWiki content with
| permission.
|
| The way you phrase things on the site, I was left with the
| impression that you were in fact stealing the content while at
| the same time asking for donations, which is morally questionable
| at best.
|
| I had to dig around in their copyright section before I found
| this:
|
| > Some content may be used free of charge without prior consent.
| The .gif files, text, videos which can be found on youtube.com
| and muscle information can be used with the MuscleWiki branding
| and with links back to musclewiki.com.
| Vincenius wrote:
| Thanks for the feedback! I will think of a better wording.
|
| I was even in contact with the people from MuscleWiki (super
| cool people) and they said it's fine for me to use their data
| if I keep my product free and don't generate profit
| sigmonsays wrote:
| how can you take this TLD seriously? .lol?
|
| am I laughing at my workouts now?
| bbstats wrote:
| I can't work out my core with my body weight?
| extragood wrote:
| Planks are the best
| abound wrote:
| As other folks have noted, this is a nice web app, but not well-
| suited for coming up with a real training plan that meets an
| individual's health goals.
|
| For my own personal goals, I've enjoyed/had success with doing
| variations of Jim Wendler's 5/3/1 workout for roughly a decade,
| and recently made a simple (and much, much uglier) web app [1] to
| record my lifts, suggest one-rep max targets, calculate weight
| for each set, etc. It's not nearly as flexible as the tool in
| this post (built mostly for 5/3/1 + power lifts) and doesn't have
| any options except self-hosting (for now), but one can specify
| their full routine in a JSON-formatted config, and then do their
| routine.
|
| [1] https://github.com/bcspragu/stronk
| weakfish wrote:
| I'm a huge 5/3/1 fan and have been thinking of building my own
| version of this!
|
| Would you be open to contributions, instead? I'd love to at
| least add some design to the front-end
| jimparkins wrote:
| as you have asked for feedback -
|
| I think there is a fundamental issue with the flow. The first
| step should be to choose the fundamental benefit the person is
| looking to achieve
|
| Upper / Back / Lower / Cardio or similar high level categories
| that even novices can understand. I hesitate to say push pull or
| as this is industry specific Upper - I want a
| bigger chest or more defined shoulders Back - I want a
| wider back or a more defined back Lower - I want bigger
| glutes, defined abs, clearer separation between butt and legs,
| bigger legs Cardio - I want better overall stamina
|
| Next how much time I have
|
| Next equipment that I have
|
| Next a visual representation on the skeleton of what this looks
| like in terms of targeting
|
| Next excersizes
| somethingreen wrote:
| Good job! Couple suggestions:
|
| - Put heavy compound movements before isolation - tiring
| themselves before compounds is what I see a lot of beginners do.
|
| - Consider encoding exercise selection in URL so it can be
| bookmarked/shared.
|
| - Dip bars?
| RamblingCTO wrote:
| Why can't I train arms and neck? :(
| aniforprez wrote:
| Why can't I train my calves?
|
| I also hope the prompt to select "what do you want to use" is
| changed to "what equipment do you have".
| Vincenius wrote:
| Updated the prompt :)
| Vincenius wrote:
| Probably there are no exercises for your selected equipment /
| difficulty settings in my database
| jasfi wrote:
| Neck? Increased sleep apnea risk.
| RamblingCTO wrote:
| source?
|
| I do muay thai and it's essential for clinching and is part
| of my training anyway.
| jasfi wrote:
| Search on sleep apnea and neck size. Your neck can be
| strong, actually, it's just that past a certain size your
| risk increases. That may not be a problem for you.
| RamblingCTO wrote:
| OK thanks haha, yeah I don't have that big of a neck
| imtemplain wrote:
| [dead]
| fabk wrote:
| I wrote an R script to help me generate my own workouts.
|
| What it actually does is schedule (distribute) the desired muscle
| groups across days according to your specification of:
| - volume: # sets to do on each workout day of that muscle group
| - frequency: # days between workout days of that muscle group
|
| The goal is to avoid having some days at the gym be huge (many
| exercises) while others are small (fewer exercises). The script
| uses simulated annealing to try to even out the schedule as much
| as possible.
|
| I am afraid I do not have a website or write-up but the code is
| here: https://github.com/fabkury/caltre. I have been actually
| using this script for years and it has made my gym scheduling
| effortless. I can just focus on the "meta parameters", e.g.:
|
| INPUT: muscle group,`X sets per training
| day`,`train every X days` back,9,4 chest,9,4
| quads,8,4 biceps,7,3 shoulder,6,4
| abdominal,4,2 calf,4,5 anterior forearm,5,6
| posterior forearm,5,6
|
| OUTPUT: It tells you what to do on each training day, as many
| days you want (it is an "infinite roll"). Here are 9 days to
| exemplify: day 1: chest 9 biceps 7
| day 2: quads 8 abdominal 4 day 3:
| back 9 calf 4 anterior forearm 5 day 4:
| biceps 7 shoulder 6 abdominal 4 day 5:
| chest 9 posterior forearm 5 day 6: quads 8
| abdominal 4 day 7: back 9 biceps 7
| day 8: shoulder 6 abdominal 4 calf 4
| day 9: chest 9 anterior forearm 5 day X:
| ...
|
| Kind regards.
| Physkal wrote:
| Love the low barrier of entry! Would love if you added
| stretching. Great job.
| krisroadruck wrote:
| Weight lifting done properly IS stretching. Full range of
| motion is a big deal for hypertrophy.
|
| Static stretching is essentially worthless, and can actually be
| detrimental to performance: https://journals.lww.com/acsm-
| csmr/Fulltext/2014/05000/The_E....
|
| The thing to do for weight lifting is do some light warm up
| cardio (5-10 minutes on your favorite hamster wheel variant -
| elliptical, treadmill, bike) to get your core temp up, then do
| a few warm up sets before big compound movements to improve
| blood flow to the target muscles and lubricate the joints.
|
| Before doing your working sets on bench/squat/deadlift, do a
| few sets at a much lower weight. Like this:
|
| Warm-up set 1: Start with the empty bar and warm up for a few
| reps there.
|
| Warm-Up Set 2: 40-50% of your first set x 5 reps (if the empty
| bar falls into this percentage- skip this step).
|
| Warm-Up Set 3: 60-65% of your first set x 3-5 reps
|
| Warm-Up Set 4: 70-80% of your first set x 3 reps
|
| Warm-up set 5: 85-90% of your first set x 1-3 reps
|
| Warm-Up Set 6: 90-95% of your first set x 1-3 reps
|
| Now do your working sets.
|
| If you aren't lifting that much weight (bench press for
| example) you can skip a few of these and start at say 60-65% of
| your working weight.
| uni_baconcat wrote:
| Excellent idea!
| gajnadsgjoas wrote:
| Any ideas why when I click on a video icon small window pops up
| but nothing happens?
| Vincenius wrote:
| It should show a preview video. Does it happen for all videos?
| Maybe it's a broken one on some exercise
| riialist wrote:
| This is very cool!
|
| I've been looking for an to keep track of my routine for getting
| my back in order after a broken vertebra. Many of exercises I'm
| doing can be found in this app already, and using this app is so
| straight-forward that I take this to test right-away.
|
| Nevertheless, I would like to know if it will be possible to add
| own exercises also?
| Vincenius wrote:
| Thanks! So far, I didn't plan to add custom exercises. It would
| be possible to self-host it and add your own exercises to the
| database.
|
| Maybe I'll add this feature in the future, but it's not the
| priority right now :)
| criley2 wrote:
| This looks cool but I find it kind of hard to use.
|
| My thoughts while using:
|
| - Hmm, I want to get a full body workout, maybe spread across
| multiple sessions per week.
|
| - Click on muscles? But... I'm not trying to do some advanced
| accessory lift. I need a whole body workout. Big compound lifts
| building a foundation of fitness and form for life. I guess I'll
| click on all the muscles...? Why am I even clicking on muscles?
| I'm not a professional who is targeting something. I just want to
| be healthy.
|
| - Wow, it recommended 15 exercises for a single workout?
| That's.... insanity.
|
| I'm guessing this is only intended to be a single-use workout
| tool for someone who is already doing a set routine with a bigger
| philosophy around it. "Oh it's an upper body pull day, I need
| this tool to figure out an example of 2 things I could fit into
| my existing routine" and not "Here's a weekly routine targeting
| multiple muscle groups with rest days and here's how to follow
| it". Perhaps the author of the tool thinks "routine" and
| "workout" are the same thing, but this is a workout tool, not a
| routine tool (a routine combines multiple workouts under a
| philosophy of achieving progress, and this tool just doesn't do
| that).
|
| Looks nice but I don't need help customizing the fine details of
| my routine, I need something that actually understands routines
| at a higher level, and understands rest vs work across multiple
| work days to maximize results.
| defanor wrote:
| A few issues spotted:
|
| - It is not obvious how to get back to equipment selection: the
| history does not change, and it was not apparent that those step
| numbers are buttons.
|
| - With JS off, there is an empty page in the beginning.
|
| - The website does not allow to select forearms after choosing
| just "bodyweigh[t]" and "pull-up bar" as equipment, even though
| musclewiki.com shows chin-ups as an exercise for forearms.
| Vincenius wrote:
| Thanks for the feedback! I'll think of ways to improve that
| throwawaaarrgh wrote:
| Hey author! Please don't be discouraged by negative feedback
| here. This is legitimately a great app and it'll only get better
| as you fine tune it over time. Thanks for your efforts and keep
| going!!
| mandeepj wrote:
| Congrats on the launch!
|
| I don't think just showing arm for 'bodyweight' is accurate. How
| about full body instead?
| theonlybutlet wrote:
| Great tool and the little video, even better.
| mrleinad wrote:
| I love it! There are a few bugs though. If I select a set of
| equipment and proceed until I get the exercises, but then go back
| and change the equipment, it doesn't seem to update itself.
| LelouBil wrote:
| I was looking for something exactly like this just yesterday !
| sander1095 wrote:
| I think this misses an initial step: Your goal. I'm not very
| experienced with all the different types of gym equipment and
| what you use them for.
|
| I'd love to see recommendations if my goal would be to build up
| some muscle and lose weight, and why this would be recommended.
|
| Then this would be very useful for me
| hashmush wrote:
| Yes! I agree, it'd also be nice if the "select equipment you
| want to use" instead was "select what you have available".
|
| I'm a noob. I have some stuff. Show me what I can do with it!
| hnuser9001 wrote:
| This is reminiscent of the Fitbod app on App Store/Google Play.
| If you're looking for inspiration, check it out.
| jrnkntl wrote:
| Nice work and pleasant to use. One improvement idea I have after
| getting to the exercise list is to add a warmup routine for the
| chosen muscle groups. Before beginning the exercices.
| shadowfax92 wrote:
| This is incredible! Love how simple and intuitive it is.
| Navarr wrote:
| As someone completely inexperienced with exercise, the biggest
| drawback about this app is asking what muscles I want to focus
| on.
|
| _I don't know_. I want to lose weight and be in just a better
| physical condition. Maybe then I'm not a target user, which is
| totally fine! But wanted to add that feedback in case I was.
| fknorangesite wrote:
| No joke the /r/fitness wiki/FAQ is one of the best
| straightforward guides for new-to-fitness people out there.
| Mainly, I think, because it's not trying to sell you anything.
|
| https://thefitness.wiki/
| kortex wrote:
| Probably all of them on average then, but especially big
| groups, core, and erector muscles. Most humans who have to hit
| the gym in order to stay fit spend too much time sedentary.
| They need back and core strength to prevent back issues later
| in life, glute, hamstring, quad and calf to keep legs strong
| and mitigate knees doing weird things.
|
| Most of aforementioned humans also likely need to move heavy
| objects from time to time without throwing out their back.
|
| I read once that deadlifts are the single best exercise you can
| do for desk bod. If I only have 10 minutes to work out, I do
| deadlifts. Next I try to get abs, obliques, back stabilizers,
| etc., then some squats and leg work. I do chin/pull/push ups
| between the core and leg stuff.
| efields wrote:
| The UI overall here is incredibly welcoming. It presents
| everything it's going to do with straightforward controls and
| smart UI labeling. Kudos.
| stoicfungi wrote:
| very cool.
| katzskat wrote:
| This is great!
| tom___n wrote:
| Very nice, thank you for creating this! I love how it looks on
| mobile device, definitely will start using it.
| shubhamjain wrote:
| What an awesome execution. This app goes to show how you can
| build an excellent product even in a crowded market like Fitness.
| There must be gazillion workout builders out there, but OP's is
| the first one that I have seen which shows every exercise with
| example videos, and allows you to build exact workout you need
| without multiple google searches.
| Vincenius wrote:
| Thanks a lot!!
| hamasho wrote:
| This is truly fantastic, thank you!
|
| The overall experiences are so great. And I have strong
| respect for apps like this where I can enjoy a lot of
| features without being required to create an account. I
| understand it's difficult in corporations where KPIs like
| registration rate matters. But even when given a choice, it
| must be challenging to design seamless UX/UI and write code
| which works well with both locally stored data (without an
| account) and remotely stored data (with an account). I hope
| more apps adopt this approach. There are very few examples.
| Excalidraw is the one that comes to mind.
|
| Anyway I really love your app, thank you! I'll use this in
| the next gym session (if I finally hit the gym...)
| ano88888 wrote:
| it is very well made.It gives me confidence that every vertical
| is up for grabs if you really pay attention to details and
| attack from your own unqiue angle. No softwre or solution is
| feature complete or done.
| k2xl wrote:
| Very cool but it shows me workouts requiring a pull up bar when I
| said I don't have it (only selected body weight and dumbbell then
| chose biceps and back)
| Vincenius wrote:
| Thanks for the report - I fixed it in the database :)
| jasfi wrote:
| Something like this is definitely needed. I like how you start by
| selecting what you have access to.
|
| It would be great if a yoga mat were another option. Then you
| could link to videos of yoga moves, just as you do with other
| exercises.
| Vincenius wrote:
| Good idea! Actually, I already have data for yoga in my
| database - I just didn't add it because I wasn't sure if it's
| possible to generate random yoga workouts or if they need to
| follow an order to make sense
|
| I'll think of a way to add it :)
| jasfi wrote:
| I don't think they need to follow any order, but some people
| might like doing them in various orders.
| AmericanChopper wrote:
| I'm sure a lot of yoga instructors would cringe at this
| comment. Yoga routines generally start out with same few
| basic warm up moves, they generally focus on a particular
| area of the body, working up to more difficult poses as the
| routine goes on, and end with some lighter stretching to
| cool off, most typically finishing with savasana (aka lying
| down on your back).
|
| You could probably algorithmically generate routines like
| this, but I wouldn't suggest a randomly generated one for
| best results (or safety). There's a few really good
| instructors on YouTube, and I'd personally recommend
| looking there if you're after a thoughtfully composed
| routine to follow.
| jasfi wrote:
| The site is missing warmups in general, and would be a
| good addition. Perhaps there some warmups would only be
| for specific exercise types. E.g. yoga warmups for yoga
| moves.
| [deleted]
| masteruvpuppetz wrote:
| This is so good
| andy_ppp wrote:
| Great app! Consider in a copy and paste sharing feature ala
| Wordle and make sure to add in the streaks count too.
| anitakirkovska wrote:
| OK the person who built this should win something. Thank you for
| creating this <3
| 4booru wrote:
| [dead]
| RaCaS123 wrote:
| Excellent - is it possible to add advice re reps/sets?
| Vincenius wrote:
| Thanks! Yeah, that's a point on my bucket list :)
| siva7 wrote:
| Straight to the point without marketing bullshit. Excellent
| execution.
| aembleton wrote:
| Can you make the videos larger?
| pacifika wrote:
| Love the site, and the workflow.
|
| As a non native speaker I understand you're trying to keep the
| instructions brief but I have to read them multiple times to
| understand what to do.
|
| You could add some physiotherapy exercises with a stick as well.
| bgoldste wrote:
| Also love the site.
|
| > As a non native speaker I understand you're trying to keep
| the instructions brief but I have to read them multiple times
| to understand what to do.
|
| I'm a native speaker and I frequently experience this reading
| workout instructions. Something about exercise language in
| general feels very clunky.
| Tildey wrote:
| I found it's a form of jargon, and once you know more about
| the field, it becomes much clearer.
|
| Before I started working out at all, I found it really hard
| to follow any workout instructions (even videos). I couldn't
| tell if what I was doing felt right or if my form was off in
| some important way.
|
| After a few sessions with a personal trainer/physical
| therapist, and just getting comfortable with the sensations
| and movements, I found it much easier to figure out what I'm
| supposed to be doing from an instruction. I had more of the
| building blocks that I knew were correct already.
|
| Text is still inherently a difficult way to instruct
| movements though.
| BoorishBears wrote:
| I was still worried about where the LLM fit into all this,
| but I think we've found an opening!
| buss_jan wrote:
| This is great. Chapeau. It's a little strange to select the
| muscle group one wants to target, what about a few primary and
| secondary dimensions such as explosiveness, endurance, strength,
| fat loss or aesthetics. Some way to more broadly describe what
| one is trying to accomplish.
| hk__2 wrote:
| Very cool!
|
| Is it a choice or a limitation of MuscleWiki that videos
| exclusively show men?
| Vincenius wrote:
| Thanks! I just found later that MuscleWiki also has videos of
| women (not sure if they have it of all exercises though). I
| want to add an option to choose the video format in the future
| :)
| hiisukun wrote:
| Just a casual +1 on this request, and thanks for the great
| website. I would also request a "I am not sure" option for
| the which muscles to train at the start.
| TA_34545677 wrote:
| Just came here to say this, as someone who is visiting gyms for
| nearly 2 decades now and who has failed several times in
| launching whatever-fancy-app-product:
|
| WOW!
|
| WOW!!
|
| WOW!!!
|
| not only did you create something (thats step 1), you created
| something that works (you released a working version, clap clap),
| you created something with a real usecase (not the next get-rich-
| crypto-bro-app), AND:
|
| from your current version, i see gazillion ways of
| extending/expanding the product.
|
| Keep going - dont listen to the others :)
|
| (if you think about monetization: Just watch a couple of these
| fitfluencer channels, and you will get tons of inspiration - also
| out of sport-channels, you will find lot of marketing ideas)
| Vincenius wrote:
| Thanks a lot!! Yeah, there is still a lot of room for extending
| this. I don't plan to monetize it at the moment but maybe in
| the future :)
|
| So far it's just a fun side project which I enjoy working on
| TA_34545677 wrote:
| Haha, read all the feedback you got now x hours later:
|
| - so many improvements to pick up, in all directions
|
| - now you have an endless list of todos :)
|
| regards
| jerrygoyal wrote:
| I find exercise set to be quite limited. no exercise for biceps
| and only 1 for triceps when choosing bodyweight.
| brodouevencode wrote:
| The suggested exercises seem rather targeted to gen-pop or
| general fitness. Feature request: have workouts that target based
| on goals - i.e. power, strength, aesthetics, endurance, etc. and
| attribute them accordingly.
| felixguendling wrote:
| Very nice! What can be added is to group exercises in beginner,
| medium and advanced and add warmup and stretching routines.
| Vincenius wrote:
| Thanks! The beginner / intermediate / advanced selection is
| available on the screen where you select the muscles. Adding
| warm-ups and stretching rountines is on my list :)
| Physkal wrote:
| Thanks I had to check twice. My eyes glossed right over that
| and went straight to the muscle group.
| bjornasm wrote:
| Just make sure it doesn't end up to advanced and convoluted
| (maybe an advanced mode/easy mode?). Really nice work :)
| bitsinthesky wrote:
| This is awesome!
| andyjohnson0 wrote:
| This is great. I love the simple, effective UX.
| keyle wrote:
| This is a great approach you took on something that's been done a
| gezillion times. My thanks!
| heap_perms wrote:
| This is great. I like the no-nonsense design, I especially like
| the inline-approach in the video, where it kind of just pops up.
| I was afraid it would be a link, but turned out to be very
| smoothly integrated video, only slightly interrupting flow.
| tiku wrote:
| I don't need a workout routine. I need someone that checks if I
| arrive at the gym. There is no service for that. Once I am at the
| gym I work out.
| peepee1982 wrote:
| I think software (or a service) won't be the solution to your
| problem. I know some people are trying to solve this with
| gamification or accountability apps, but in my experience those
| only work short-term because they don't address the core issues
| responsible for the lack of motivation, although I'm sure they
| help establish good habits in some cases.
|
| Lack of motivation usually stems from a lack of energy, which
| can stem from both physiological as well as psychological
| issues, which can stem from spiritual issues (the sense of self
| and how it relates to your environment).
|
| If I'm well rested and in harmony with my authentic self, I
| usually don't have a problem finding the motivation to do
| things that are good for me.
| bhaskara2 wrote:
| Will you be able to elaborate on this? How would a service
| check if you arrive at the gym, and even if it does how will
| that motivate you to go to the gym.
| Tildey wrote:
| A personal trainer is the service you're looking for. Or a gym
| friend group
| krisroadruck wrote:
| Two options:
|
| -- Accountability Coach
|
| -- Personal trainer
|
| Of the 2, personal trainer is probably better if you are new to
| the gym (been lifting 0-2 years) because they will also help
| you nail technique/form so you don't get yourself injured
| swinging around ego lifts.
|
| You don't have to pay a lot for this either - don't get the
| $120/hr folks at big 24 hour gyms, find a private gym where one
| trainer might be working with about 6-8 folks at any one time.
| They will queue up each set of exercises for you, check your
| form and then do the same for someone else while you are doing
| the bulk of the work.
|
| The place I go to charges $45 per 90 minute session for this
| and it's great. I don't need to figure out my workout, track my
| weights/reps for progressive overload or anything. They take
| care of all of that. I just show up, do the work and get on
| with my day.
| wiseowise wrote:
| MaaS (Motivation as a service). You send some a sum of money
| and if you don't arrive at gym service keeps it.
| BoorishBears wrote:
| This was a thing and raised millions:
| https://breakingmuscle.com/tech-review-gympact-the-
| benefits-...
| h1fra wrote:
| Very nice, I was looking to build something similar.
|
| Definitely needs a fullscreen mode with timer and video. Plus a
| way to configure step reps/timer :D
| Vincenius wrote:
| Adding a timer is next on my bucket list :)
| brigandish wrote:
| I second steps/reps. I'd also add the reps done in the workout
| history in the profile.
| p0w3n3d wrote:
| Thank you, this is very helpful, as I need often to do
| stabilisation excercises. Also your domain choice is excellent,
| sir!
| badrequest wrote:
| IMHO "body weight" should be preselected in the "equipment I have
| available" input. Not sure of a situation where I would be
| capable of working out, but not have access to my own body
| weight.
| kortex wrote:
| Wheelchair bound would be capable of some workouts, but not all
| body weight.
|
| Actually what would be more useful than pre-selecting body
| weight, would be a setting to mark certain
| groups/muscles/appendages as injured, missing, disabled, or
| weakened.
| adr1an wrote:
| Agreed. I'd love to see some calisthenics/ functional training
| repertoires here. For now, I stick to darebee.com database (I
| like their PDFs) or free plans from fitnessblender (I like
| their videos)
| deskandastool wrote:
| Any reason why the head is disabled as a selectable muscle? I
| have been told by multiple people that this is an area of
| improvement for me
| hamasho wrote:
| If you don't mind, can I ask why you use plain JavaScript rather
| than TypeScript?
|
| The product is truly remarkable, so what technologies used under
| the hood doesn't matter, but I think TypeScript is natural
| choice, especially if you 1) start a project from scratch in
| 2023, 2) have complex local states like choosing equipment and
| body parts, and proceeding exercises step by step until completed
| in a single page, and 3) have complex data structure (like
| exercises, histories, and seamless connection between locally
| stored data and remotely stored data used only after
| registering).
|
| edit: typo
| kaesve wrote:
| Not the OP, but I still start most of my projects without
| TypeScript, especially if I'm working on it by myself. I do
| appreciate TypeScript, and I will happily use it in any bigger
| project or when I have collaborators. But there's just
| something that I really enjoy about being able to start a
| project without any build steps or installing stuff. I love to
| be able to just jam out some code and open a file in a browser
| to run it, or rsync it to my server and share it with my
| friends.
| Vincenius wrote:
| Sure. To be honest, it's mostly because of laziness. I'm more
| used to plain JS than to TypeScript, so I'm faster this way.
|
| I also always thought TS is a bit too much for small apps like
| this, but I get that it would make sense to use it if others
| want to contribute as well.
| hamasho wrote:
| Thanks! It's reasonable. But I'm pretty sure yours is more
| complex than many typical SaaS or CRUD-based websites.
| trewqasdf wrote:
| The UX is efficient to get started. I would also like to have
| something similar for office ergonomics, like stretching your
| back or neck when taking a break from the 'puter.
| Vincenius wrote:
| Thanks! Maybe this is something for you: https://stretch15.com/
|
| This was actually the website that inspired me for workout.lol
| :D
| NoImmatureAdHom wrote:
| I'd like to echo the sentiments about this app not providing
| enough guidance, and also ask the HN community a question: is
| there an app out there that does provide lots of guidance?
|
| I've been doing 3 days / week GZCL with this for a year:
| https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.braindead.g...
|
| It's a 2/5. It works, kinda. I suffer from moderate ADHD and need
| an app that requires little decision-making. Big buttons, pre-
| programmed workouts, etc. It does that pretty well.
|
| co.braindead.gzcl doesn't do several things I want: --Tell me
| what to do with no ambiguity (GZCL often has "accessory
| exercises" that are a free-for-all. No, I need the app to tell me
| exactly what to do. Which exercise, how many reps, what weight,
| what rest interval). --Explain what's going on. What is "TM"? Why
| is it always zero? --Facilitate deloading weeks + make reasonable
| calculations and / or expose the calculations --be FOSS --allow
| data export --offline-first
|
| Is there anything out there that does this, or a significant
| subset?
| phillipsmg wrote:
| This is really neat. Barrier to entry is super low. Congrats!
|
| I'd love the same but for meal plans, if you fancy building
| something else
| Vincenius wrote:
| Thanks! Yeah, that would be cool - I'd be interested in that as
| well.
|
| I guess I'm still busy for a while with this project, but I'll
| keep it in the back of my mind :)
| ahmadhamza19 wrote:
| this is perfect!
| stanislavb wrote:
| I love that it's a web app
| rzmmm wrote:
| Seems to work nicely. I like how it saves the workout even
| without registering.
| willhackett wrote:
| This is fantastic! I'll be using this in the AM.
| datavirtue wrote:
| Very nice to be able to look up body weight exercises and get a
| short video instantly. Very nice.
|
| I wouldn't target weight lifting at all. These people already
| know everything. Most of them can't hold a horse stance for more
| than 30 seconds but they can squat with 200 lbs on their back. I
| used to be one of those people. All bulked up and weak as fuck.
|
| Don't encourage people to lift weights until they can lift their
| own weight.
| have_faith wrote:
| Is there an open database for muscles / muscle groups with
| relationships to exercises?
| dodos wrote:
| I'm not sure if this is exactly what you are looking for, but
| there have been a couple discussions here about musclewiki in
| the past.
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=musclewiki.com
| have_faith wrote:
| I noticed that workout.lol was scraping data from there. The
| website itself says that it's fine to re-use the data but I
| was imagining more a SQL database with an explicit license
| etc.
| tonyone wrote:
| www.musclewiki.com Edit: I just saw that this is the source for
| workout.lol
| xwdv wrote:
| The fitness industry runs on the idea that you need a hundred
| variation of exercises to get fit. The truth is, you don't need
| really more than a dozen. There are the five or six boring core
| lifts that everyone knows, and then maybe a handful of accessory
| exercises to hit some specific areas, and that's it.
|
| By doing the same exercises over and over, you build adaption
| (muscle growth) which forces you to increase weight or reps to
| raise difficulty over time. Eventually you get very strong
| muscles and are moving a good amount of mass.
|
| By doing too many variants, you just waste time and never truly
| "adapt" to movements.
| skellyclock wrote:
| Pretty cool. Would love a site like this except for flexibility.
| Bookmarked.
| shubhamjain0594 wrote:
| https://www.trxstar.co.uk/
|
| This was created by the students I had supervised this fall. It
| is very similar catering to more TRX crowd, though Workout.lol
| has a very beautiful UI :)
| seagullriffic wrote:
| Very well done. It would be good if the video pop-overs were a
| bit larger by default (even double the size) as on my resolution
| screen they're pretty small. One of the videos was face-on
| (mountain climber) so I couldn't see really what was going on
| with the legs.
| Vincenius wrote:
| Thanks! Improving the video sizes is on my list and will
| hopefully come soon :)
| bjornasm wrote:
| What a great webapp, so simple and good. Love that it is straight
| to the point, choose what you have to work with, what you want to
| work on and boom there is the exercises with an added film - go
| work out. Toying with the idea of putting up a screen with this
| in my home gym so friends and family easily can get a program for
| when they come to workout.
| lukevdp wrote:
| Looks great, but I just tried on my mobile and after selecting
| equipment, there's no way to get to the next step
| Vincenius wrote:
| There was a small bug with the button on some browsers - should
| be fixed now :)
| stefanvdw1 wrote:
| It seems you have to click on the next step in the stepper
| above. But I agree that a "next" button would make more sense
| Liam2010 wrote:
| [dead]
| lukko wrote:
| Really great! The way of filtering by equipment available, and
| then body part is nice and intuitive.
|
| I found this article interesting [0]. It's about a fitness site
| from 1999 (https://exrx.net), that is still an incredibly dense
| and useful resource for fitness and nutrition. Makes me miss the
| 90's internet, but also I think shows we often hugely
| overcomplicate UI/UX.
|
| [0] https://www.newyorker.com/culture/rabbit-holes/the-
| internets...
| petemir wrote:
| Great execution! Thanks for sharing. I wonder if you'd thought
| about integrating with wger [0], i.e. exporting the workouts from
| your app and creating it there.
|
| [0] https://github.com/wger-project/wger/
| atchoo wrote:
| Everyone is very complementary so can I be allowed to be the
| debbie downer? As a web app, it's neat! Functionally, not a fan
| as yet.
|
| I've lifted for a couple of decades. I put in the muscles for a
| pull workout I will be doing today and the results are... dumb.
| "Dumbbell superman" nah not going to do that. Two types of hammer
| curl? Nah that's a waste of time. "Bayesian hammer curl" wtf, my
| eye is twitching. Two types of dead-lift only differentiated with
| different shaped weights? Nope that's dumb too. It's also
| suggesting exercises at the wrong level e.g. bands or dead-
| lifting a kettlebell. I'd need to put all my gym's kettlebells
| onto a bar for a useful dead-lift :) It also had no vertical pull
| like a chinup/lat-pull for a back workout which is kinda
| criminal.
|
| For a beginner, they won't know it's dumb, so this is kind of
| harmful. They need to use a more carefully designed complete
| split / full-body-workout, because it matters how multiple days
| combine, not just a single day.
|
| For an intermediate/advanced lifter, clearer goals are more
| useful e.g. PL or BB, and then planning
| intensity/loading/waves/deloads etc. for constant progression.
| What I find most useful is deep dive discussion by an expert for
| most effective exercises and how to get the most of out of them
| with subtleties about grips and cues to increase mind-muscle-
| connection etc. Suggestions for how to swap out exercises to work
| around injuries or focus on weak points is very useful. The
| lifter can then iterate and swap exercises in and out of their
| routine to keep it fresh and useful.
| davidguetta wrote:
| Yeah, the idea is great ("what can you do with the equipment
| you have") but that also kinda promote a bit of fuckarounditis
| (https://leangains.com/fuckarounditis/) by asking the user
| "what muscle do you really wanna target", instead of
| emphasizing a better approach of lifting overall which is
| strong "functional" compound movements such as the big 6 (bench
| press / squat / deadlift / pull ups / rows / overhead press)
| dehrmann wrote:
| > fuckarounditis
|
| Just punched in my muscles for today, and I'd agree.
|
| It's leg and core day. For legs, it gave me barbell suitcase
| deadlifts and barbell Bulgarian split squats. They're not
| bad, but they overcomplicate things, and this is especially
| bad for beginners. What I'm actually going to do are squats
| and RDLs.
| tunesmith wrote:
| But if you're asking "what can you do with the equipment you
| have" you might not be able to do the big six. What if you
| only have bodyweight and dumbbells?
| Jcampuzano2 wrote:
| Then it could be smart about recommending the next best
| thing.
|
| For example -> Don't have a barbell but have adjustable
| DB's?
|
| Replace Bench for DB bench
|
| Replace Squat for goblet squat or split squat.
|
| Replace OHP for DB OHP
|
| Replace Deadlift for DB RDL
|
| Replace Row for DB Row
|
| Almost anybody can find something to hang off of for pull-
| ups so I'd say suck it up and find something.
|
| Personally I would tell any new lifter that sure DB's and
| calisthenics work. But if you are one for optimizing/want
| the most gains in the least time, you NEED to find a
| barbell/squat rack at the very least.
|
| A new lifter can literally put 200+ pounds on their
| squat/deadlift in 6 months or less. You will outgrow DB's
| pretty fast if you're really serious.
|
| Note: I am an avid lifter and have been for 10+ years. You
| will rarely see somebody who is both natural and relatively
| big who does not focus on the big lifts, or at LEAST has a
| strength base built from the big lifts.
| jeffhuys wrote:
| That link does a lot of talking without really explaining
| what you DO have to do.
| davidguetta wrote:
| Well you didn't read it then. It's actually extremely clear
| about doing DEADLIFT / SQUATS / BENCH PRESS/ CHIN or PULL
| UPS / OVERHEAD PRESS.
|
| I can understand you may not like the 'troll' / provocative
| way of writing tho, it's not for everybody
| haswell wrote:
| > _I can understand you may not like the 'troll' /
| provocative way of writing tho, it's not for everybody_
|
| Not the other commenter, but some feedback: while I'm not
| a fan of the writing style, and I'm ok with that, my
| issue is really presentation and information density.
|
| It takes a rather dedicated reader to find useful
| information in between paragraph after paragraph of
| ranting. And since I'm not skilled at lifting, I'm more
| interested in hearing what you think is useful than
| wading through a dozen ways to belittle what people are
| already doing.
|
| I think you could increase your reach by making the
| problem/solution clearer. I'm just starting to dabble
| with weights, and I'm actively seeking good resources.
| I'm not inclined to add your blog to my research plan
| based on this.
|
| Hoping this comes across as constructive and in the
| spirit it was intended.
| davidguetta wrote:
| I'm not the author of the article. But if you want a
| provocative answer:
|
| In general your attitude is wanting easy shiny articles
| instead of really going deep in why and what works well
| or no, going past the writing style, especially when it's
| told by someone who is showing many results for him and
| others well... you kind of illustrate the point of people
| who end up with shiny and useless workout, don't
| eventually stick to the gym because "they don't feel like
| it" at some point.
|
| No one really serious about sports (either lifting or
| martial arts) is going to spend more time pleasing you or
| make you feel better if you're not able to see that
| results speak for themselves. You have to be self
| motivated, it's not my job to do it. I've seen article
| mentionned at least 10 times as "best fitness article".
| If you don't like the style when it's one of the best
| articles, it's your problem, not the author's one.
|
| But if you really want an answer for you if you are
| starting => just do the "starting strength" program. It's
| the simplest one and most effective. When you can bench
| 100kg in 3 months, you can read more about leangains.
| haswell wrote:
| > _I 'm not the author of the article_
|
| Ahh, fair enough, I misinterpreted one of your earlier
| comments.
|
| > _In general your attitude is wanting easy shiny
| articles instead of really going deep in why and what
| works well or no_
|
| That's not what I want at all. I'm happy to go deep. I
| love long-form content. I'm starting to investigate
| weights after sinking hundreds of hours into Yoga
| fundamentals.
|
| I'm just in the stage of deciding where I'll invest my
| time next, and what I'm calling out are what amount to
| pedagogical issues with the structure. Simply put, there
| are more effective ways of conveying the same level of
| depth by focusing on the structure of information. If you
| were the author, this would have been feedback. Since
| you're not, it sounds like I'm just trashing the article,
| which is not my intent.
| wpietri wrote:
| Yeah, I have no idea if he's right. But he's very clear.
| davidguetta wrote:
| From experience it's really nice as a starter because
|
| - at a low level strength is as much important as looks
|
| - it's a lot more fun to carry heavy weight than do 100
| curls with low weights
|
| - it's a very quick routine. I got some results with
| 40min x 3 a week
|
| Note that leangains is just not only strength trainign
| but a quite 'opinionated' diet based on Intermittent
| fasting on which I have actually strong doubts on the
| 'necessity', but which is defintely showing results
| addisonl wrote:
| A massive article filled with ranting and raving is
| anything but "extremely clear"
| lcnPylGDnU4H9OF wrote:
| A massive article filled with ranting and raving which
| eventually communicates a point is many things, possibly
| including "extremely clear".
| rkapsoro wrote:
| https://startingstrength.com/get-started
| jeffhuys wrote:
| Thank you. That website is a LOT less pretentious.
| tru1ock wrote:
| Leangains is a great resource. Do not let the tone
| distract from the content. The content there went
| mainstream much later(IF) especially so he was ahead of
| the curve.
|
| An IF protocol with a daily energizer routine worked
| wonders for me.
|
| Some great reads: https://www.amazon.com/Kettlebell-
| Simple-Sinister-Revised-Up...
| https://www.amazon.com/Strength-Rules-Stronger-Almost-
| Anyone...
| zeku wrote:
| Leangains is a relic of time. Martin Berkharn(the guy who
| made it) was a VERY prolific poster on the
| bodybuilding.com forums around 2005-2012 or something
| like that. The tone of his entire brand is born out of
| that forum and style of communication. You had to fight
| for your life on there if you wanted to communicate.
|
| I'm not excusing his tone btw just explaining.
| Wojtkie wrote:
| the bodybuilding.com forums from that time were something
| else.
| squirtlebonflow wrote:
| [dead]
| lukas099 wrote:
| Post proof that your preferred style of workout is better
| overall.
| davidguetta wrote:
| I don't care about proving it to you at all. There's
| thousands of bodybuilding ressources on the net if you're
| really interested, and the website I linked show a lof of
| before / after pictures.
|
| And in reality it's not better than any other one that
| focuses on the big 6. What I like wit LG is that the idea
| is to be "very focused on what really matters" which is
| compound motions and reaching failure points. Personally I
| got results with 3x40 min workout per week, which is very
| small. And it's not just the workout, you have to follow a
| precise (natural) diet.
| steve_adams_86 wrote:
| At the risk of sounding clueless, I think a good workout app
| can never be comprehensive and one-size-fits-all. I think they
| should be based around a clear and well-articulated philosophy
| and specific goals which lean towards highly opinionated.
|
| Maybe you want to build upon dat ass or strengthen your hips to
| reduce injury. These are wildly different goals. One app should
| not aspire to do both meaningfully. However, an app focused on
| dat ass or injury prevention programs? Stellar ideas I think,
| and they can be executed on effectively.
|
| Targeting a body part is also a weird concept. Target it to do
| what, and how? Why?
|
| My goto after 15 years is lifting at a relatively low weight
| (kettlebells and barbell) and bodyweight progressions using
| tempo patterns. I used to go heavy and do fewer reps and sets
| because I wanted to maximize strength and minimize time working
| out, but learned over time that you really do max out strength
| and neglect a lot of other things. I was getting really strong
| for some random dude sitting at a desk all day, but try as I
| might, I was losing mobility and hurting myself despite an
| intense focus on form and checking in on how I was feeling and
| getting experienced people to review my program, lifts, and
| progression. To get to that point I had to learn a lot and make
| a ton of mistakes already.
|
| Tempo lets me focus on form better, find compound movements I
| can move through safely in broader ranges of motion, and get my
| heart rate up higher for more of my session rather than in
| exhausting bursts. I injure myself less, my mobility and
| strength are better rounded, and I don't need to eat like a
| bear to prevent wasted effort. I love it. I've turned into a
| fat ass recently but that's unrelated; I'd probably be more of
| a fat ass had I kept lifting hard and eating harder. The point
| is, what works well for me (and others without a doubt) is
| certainly not something that I'd get from most generic workout
| apps I've encountered. And if I did, it would have been
| accidental. There is usually no clear reason or philosophy
| behind _why_ you 're doing what you're doing; it's just another
| workout in the database piped into your program. Just do it,
| because do it.
|
| I think the programming I do today a relatively nuanced fitness
| foundation, and apps rarely ever touch on these matters or how
| to make decisions about them. They treat exercise like a very
| static, linear thing. Pick the movement, pick the gear, do the
| thing, you exercised. But bodies are so dynamic, movements
| yield different results under different loads, and people have
| very broad ranges of goals. It isn't good enough.
|
| Want to get huge? There are lots of ways to do that. Want to do
| it based on the equipment you've got? Sure, we can narrow it
| down a bit now. Do you have any physical limitations? We can
| narrow it down even more. I think you can make a useful app out
| of this singular goal (and some people have, I think). But a
| random "what gear do you have and which muscles do you want to
| work" app is kind of like... I mean, what does working the
| muscle mean? What are you actually going to end up doing, and
| why?
|
| I also agree completely on the point about potential harm. I
| think this is another reason to build an app around very
| specific methodologies and goals. There's more opportunity to
| hone in on great explanations of safe form and equipment usage,
| explain methods, and generally get the beginner acquainted with
| effective implementation of the movements and overall
| strategies.
|
| But again, I'm quite literally a fat ass and I don't really
| know much about this stuff. I have lifted some weights, done a
| bad job at it a lot for a long time, and found ways in which it
| worked here and there. My sense is that we need to be specific
| and targeted, not all-encompassing, if we want to create great
| programs.
| taccicardia wrote:
| i have to agree. and i agree with other posters' sentiment of
| "who is this for?" hitting the randomizer on a bunch of
| exercises is just awful programming, full stop. the app is
| snappy and kind of novel, but i'm not exaggerating when i say
| this is one of the most pointless workout apps i've seen, and
| i've used a lot.
| hooverd wrote:
| > "Bayesian hammer curl" wtf, my eye is twitching.
|
| adjust your priors, bro.
| dr_petes wrote:
| I've known plenty of people who will ask 1,000 questions about
| lifting before ever going to the gym. I think this app is great
| for people who are just getting into it, and want something
| that feels like a definitive answer.
|
| Im sure after a few months of this, you'll find better
| information on how to progress, but I'd recommend this to
| anyone texting me "hey what should I do at the gym."
| femiagbabiaka wrote:
| To this point, Renaissance Periodization has an app with
| similar functionality, but whose programming is MUCH more sane.
| And they're some of the best in the biz. It costs though:
| https://go.rpstrength.com/hypertrophy-app.
|
| If you're new to lifting, you can just do starting strength and
| you'll be fine.
| makestuff wrote:
| For anyone else just starting out this seems to be highly
| suggested for beginners https://www.boostcamp.app/reddit-ppl.
|
| I have been doing it for a few months and the app makes it
| really easy to track. They have a premium version that lets you
| sub workouts or you can "donate" to the creator of the program.
| I gave them like $10 since I have gotten so much value out of
| it.
| kortex wrote:
| Conversely, I'm a novely-a-holic and love trying out new,
| different, and obscure things. I also don't always go to the
| same gyms (there's about 3 ymca's equidistant to me, and they
| have different weight rooms with different machines and
| popularity). I also know some exercises but not a ton of
| variety. So it's hugely beneficial for me to see the different
| options available.
| itointegral wrote:
| Same here, I got variations of the same exercise. Haven't
| lifted for nearly as long as you have, but in my limited
| experience the order I got was also sub optimal: started with
| ab exercises, ended with big compound lifts. It would be a good
| idea to order the exercises based on the amount/size/etc. of
| the muscle groups they use.
| bjornasm wrote:
| >For a beginner, they won't know it's dumb, so this is kind of
| harmful.
|
| Oh please its not harmful to do deadlifts with a bar and then
| kettlebells or whatever.
|
| > What I find most useful is deep dive discussion by an expert
| for most effective exercises and how to get the most of out of
| them with subtleties about grips and cues to increase mind-
| muscle-connection etc. Suggestions for how to swap out
| exercises to work around injuries or focus on weak points is
| very useful. The lifter can then iterate and swap exercises in
| and out of their routine to keep it fresh and useful.
|
| And that is fine and can be found at your physio, a great
| yourube channel, online coach, some crossfit, powerlifting or
| weightlifting coaches. But that was probably not the aim of
| this webapp.
| atchoo wrote:
| Harmful as in giving bad advice.
| junon wrote:
| This might actually get me to start working out, it's
| exactly the kind of resource I've been looking for. I'd
| wager you wouldn't say "no, keep not working out", right?
| If it gets people motivated to start, why not?
| mynegation wrote:
| I hope it is a start and something progressively more useful
| will be built on this. In addition to points you mentioned, I'd
| say my biggest item on the wish list is giving me the weight
| and reps progression over time. E.g. I put my age, weight,
| current RM and goals and get a schedule of major lifts and
| accessories that says do X for Y sets of Z reps with W weight
| this week and here is what you do next week etc.
| goostavos wrote:
| >Two types of hammer curl?
|
| I agree. Not enough. We need more curl variations. Also, the
| app should make it clear that they need to be done in a squat
| rack.
| squirtlebonflow wrote:
| I have to agree. It suggested 13 exercises for me, most of
| which I've never heard of and have no desire to learn.
|
| I'll stick with squat/deadlift/weighted pullups every day - no
| need to complicate shit.
| bjornasm wrote:
| Then this is not the site for you obviously. Why would you
| want a excercise suggestion app if you only want to do these
| tree excercises?
| admiral33 wrote:
| I agree.
|
| OP made a nice site for exploring different types of movements
| for a muscle group. That being said the simplicity seems geared
| towards those just starting out with training but the site
| surfaces too many (in my experience) accessory exercises and
| movements I wouldn't try without a PT guiding me.
|
| If you are a true beginner and you are drawn to a site like
| OP's you're probably looking for a training program. You can
| find many comprehensive programs online [1] but when you're
| starting out the information is overwhelming. Whichever routine
| you choose keep in the back of your mind that the CDC
| recommends that you engage all major muscle groups in a muscle
| strengthening activity at least twice a week[2].
|
| Targeting every muscle group individually takes too much time,
| this is why most resistance training programs include a handful
| of exercises that train many muscles at once. Those are called
| compound exercises. Look up each exercise listed in your
| program and determine if it is a compound exercise. Those are
| the foundation of your program.
|
| You will probably fail your commitment to whatever program
| you've chosen in the next 2 weeks. Some days you will need to
| shorten your resistance workout for whatever reason. The
| compound exercises are the ones that you should still complete
| on those days. Some days you will skip the workout entirely.
| Still try to meet the CDC recommendation for the week by
| adapting your program and then recommit the following week.
|
| Diet is a tangetial topic, but you will need adequate protein
| in order to progress your training.
|
| Eventually you will notice a difference between the person you
| are when you're consistent with it and the person you are when
| you're not. At that point there's no going back. The workouts
| get more challenging, but regularly challenging yourself is
| something you look forward to.
|
| [1]: https://thefitness.wiki/routines/strength-training-muscle-
| bu...
|
| [2]:
| https://www.cdc.gov/physicalactivity/basics/adults/index.htm
| lukas099 wrote:
| I don't really think compounds save all that much time
| because the rest period required for them is so much longer
| than for isolation movements. If you prefer compounds, great
| (so do I), but there's been so much gospel online about them
| and I don't think it's substantiated.
| eep_social wrote:
| Disagree. In the gp's context, which I understand to be a
| new lifter skipping a set or superset due to time
| constraints, this is good advice. Simply performing the
| lift rep takes time, better to skip ten skull crushers than
| ten squats.
|
| Rest matters a lot less when you're estimating rep x weight
| combos rather than dialed into rep counts that bring you
| within one of failure. An untrained lifter should be seeing
| gains so fast that the weight changes every week, in some
| cases they may not even be able to adjust in sufficiently
| small increments -- for example progressing a 10lb bicep
| curl to 12lbs is only possible if you have a 12lb weight or
| +2lb accessory but jumping to 15 would be too much.
| shreyas056 wrote:
| I think this is a great tool for a long-time Gym goer who wants
| to quickly check out some new movements instead of what they
| have been doing for years, to get out of the rut. For example
| for the glutes and lower back I don't know many workouts, I
| just stick to 2-3 movements I know. I can quickly use this to
| just mix it up once in a while and add it to my repertoire
| gradually.
| anigbrowl wrote:
| There are already many websites/videos where you can find
| lists of exercises by muscle group etc. - like MuscleWiki,
| from which all the exercises are drawn. I guess this is
| helpful if you want a simple UI with attached videos, but I
| share GP's concerns that it doesn't give new lifters any real
| guidance about putting things together, or allow much input
| on reps/weights.
|
| I lift 6 days/week and just keep my 2-3 hour workouts in my
| head. I sometimes think I should write everything down to
| have a log of accomplishments and so on, but otoh knowing
| what I'm capable of at any given time is sufficient for me. I
| change up my weights/reps/sets whenever I feel like it and
| keep a mental overview of the the current week. I know how
| I'm progressing from how I feel and look and whether I'm
| gaining weight; I change exercises in or out on about a
| monthly basis.
|
| Maybe it's easier for me because I work out at home so I
| don't have to care about packing things into a gym schedule,
| worrying about availability of weights/machines etc.
| beaker52 wrote:
| This is awesome. Exactly what I want. Equipment, muscle group
| selection, simply ui, autoplay straight to the point videos -
| nothing between me and working out. It's pretty much the perfect
| UX for me because anything that's not aimed doing the work turns
| me off. Thank you!
| yaccz wrote:
| I'm satisfied by https://www.strengthlog.com/
| hospitalJail wrote:
| Good job making it open source.
|
| Btw, this might be useful for physical therapists (Not personal
| trainers, but the doctors who rehab you).
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