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At least when I've joined a gym, a person there would assess your fitness, ask what your goals are, and based on that you would get an exercise routine. Following a random exercise routine can result in injury. You should at the very least talk to a lawyer and put a disclaimer in that page.
please.... just lift super light and find your form.
At least when I've joined a gym, a person there would assess your fitness, ask what your goals are, and based on that you would get an exercise routine. Following a random exercise routine can result in injury. You should at the very least talk to a lawyer and put a disclaimer in that page.
"can result in injury" please.... just lift super light and find your form.
Your audience will not necessarily be a 20 year old in good physical condition. It may be as well a 10 year old that doesn't know what to do with the information you are giving to them. Or someone with a pacemaker, or someone with some medical condition that puts them at risk.
Then... Not only people can get injured by following an exercise routine in good-faith... some people may injure themselves on purpose so they can sue you.
Will people be able to injure themselves anyways if you add a disclaimer to the website? Absolutely. But it won't be your fault anymore.
But that's only the start. If you allow people to write anything they want in a textbox, bad things can happen. People can write ANYTHING, not only exercise routines... And by anything, I mean, very illegal things.
And if you allow people to upload pictures, well... that can go very wrong as well.
Hey, I'm working on a community sourced fitness routine database where users can upload and share routines. Does this site seem useful to you? https://routinedb.com/routines
And while adding a likes/ratings/whatever system might be helpful, I'd much rather see a system that considers actual information about people's progress. Did you get stronger? Leaner? Did your mile time improve? Did you get bigger delts? At a high level, for a given goal, routine selection is a contextual bandit problem, but so far as I can tell no one treats it that way.
At some point in the past, I had spent... maybe 10-12 hours putting together a number of bodyweight + dumbbell exercises I picked up from YouTube. I used Giphy to record GIFs of the movement, and saved them all in a Trello dashboard (tagged and everything).
I used it every time I went to the gym to figure out what exercises I could do for a particular muscle group.
I like it! It looks similar to strong lifts app. Will you have your own app that goes alongside this?
I think the first step would be to export routines as a spreadsheet. Eventually an app would be awesome though. Do you have any suggestions?
It has a few well known pre-built routines with different focuses, and then you can build your own if you so desire.
Auto weight progression, easy to use interface, rest timers, graphs, etc.
I still haven't found a replacement.
At least when I've joined a gym, a person there would assess your fitness, ask what your goals are, and based on that you would get an exercise routine. Following a random exercise routine can result in injury. You should at the very least talk to a lawyer and put a disclaimer in that page.
Good point, thanks for the feedback
Also, a Report button is highly recommended for anything involving user generated content.
I'm very tempted to add mine which I would call "the lazy lifter: build a nice body with 4x30 minutes per week" (a very efficient, leangains-based routine). That said i'm very sad by the abscence of likes. What dopamine rush can i hope to get by contributing to your database :( ? Or at least comments.
- Get users (hah, easier said than done of course).
- Comments will help people find variations (not everyone has the same equipment, or have physical issues that require a variation of the workout, comments will fill that void).
- Split this up into categories (core, legs, etc)
- Link this stuff to YouTube videos (it’s just easier to watch someone doing it with proper form)
- Last but not least, become an app. A routine is a checklist, so make it so people can hit ‘done’ on a completed rep, maybe input the weight lifted. Track it, charts.
- If you don’t do any of this, I’m going to.
Might be worth considering having a centralized repository of exercises with curated links to videos which demonstrate how to perform that exercise with proper form. Then when creating the routine, you select from that list of exercises. This allows for a bit of consistency and quality control so people aren't throwing in random exercises.
Might also help to have an upvote feature so garbage routines aren't given too much weight.
Great job!