[HN Gopher] Show HN: Minimal, self-hosted exercise tracker
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Show HN: Minimal, self-hosted exercise tracker
After decades of tracking my exercise programs in progressively
more complex spreadsheets I eventually burned out on metrics and
complicated periodization programs to the point where I had almost
stopped exercising. I am now at a place where I simply want the
minimal amount of structure and tracking to make sure I can
maintain my fitness, so I boiled the entire concept down to what I
felt was its essence: enough information and structure to remind
you of what is needed today, and how it went on the same exercises
last week. To reduce friction, the interface is kept as simple as
possible. Simple to the point where all setup is done by editing
the html source file and there is only one freeform "weight"
textbox per exercise to manipulate. Data is autosaved as it is
entered. It never nags or judges you except by showing the last
date you entered data in for that day-of-the-week's exercises. The
only quality-of-life feature is a super-simple rest period timer in
the footer. It has no external dependencies and only uses browser
local storage. There is no possibility of monetizing it. I was on
the fence about sharing since it is such a small and simple
project, but decided I would share here in case anyone is looking
to make a fresh start in the new year and finds the philosophy
appealing.
Author : DrPhish
Score : 4 points
Date : 2024-12-27 22:45 UTC (14 minutes ago)
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