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Re: Show HN: Workout Tracker – self-hosted, single binary web application

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Post by salad-tycoon »

lapetitejort wrote: post #18

Slightly off topic, but I got tired of looking for a good weight training tracker, so instead I bought a notebook and a pencil and I've been using it for nearly two years. If I want to change up how I long my workouts, I just write them in a different way. I've changed how I log number of sets/reps, weight per set, etc, a few times and I've never had to re-program how the info is displayed. I log how I feel after the…

I bought the starting strength app, no subscription and has a couple of quality of life improvements like a timer, plate calculator, graphs etc and some actually helpful no nonsense videos and book excerpts. very little distractions.

Agree with you though, pen and paper is hard to beat and cheaper.

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lapetitejort wrote: post #18

Slightly off topic, but I got tired of looking for a good weight training tracker, so instead I bought a notebook and a pencil and I've been using it for nearly two years. If I want to change up how I long my workouts, I just write them in a different way. I've changed how I log number of sets/reps, weight per set, etc, a few times and I've never had to re-program how the info is displayed. I log how I feel after the…

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Post by jovdg »

nose-wuzzy-pad wrote: post #23

Looks great! Any chance you plan for it to work with .fit files? Thanks for making this!

Yes, as stated in the README... I would love to. There seem to be some libraries to parse the .fit file, so when I have more time, I'll take a look at that.

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Post by wly_cdgr »

Heck yeah, this is awesome.

Any chance of some kind of social features? I want to control my data, but I also do want to be able to share my fitness stats & journey with a specific self-selected group of people: friends, running club mates, etc

Thank you for making this!

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Post by drBonkers »

lapetitejort wrote: post #18

Slightly off topic, but I got tired of looking for a good weight training tracker, so instead I bought a notebook and a pencil and I've been using it for nearly two years. If I want to change up how I long my workouts, I just write them in a different way. I've changed how I log number of sets/reps, weight per set, etc, a few times and I've never had to re-program how the info is displayed. I log how I feel after the…

Can I see your paper template?

What if you want to graph tonnage?

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Post by turtlebits »

abusaidm wrote: post #9

This is a great looking project. The combo of single binary Go-lang and the ability to package assets like css, js and html makes this a killed multi platform distributable one click run. It might be an interesting experiment to have the UI be installable as PWA and thereby not need the electron stack to achieve the common functionality offered by these apps.

This would a great candidate for https://wails.io/. I've been building a lot of utility desktop apps and the static binary is around 9mb (uses the system webview).

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Post by zhivota »

lapetitejort wrote: post #18

Slightly off topic, but I got tired of looking for a good weight training tracker, so instead I bought a notebook and a pencil and I've been using it for nearly two years. If I want to change up how I long my workouts, I just write them in a different way. I've changed how I log number of sets/reps, weight per set, etc, a few times and I've never had to re-program how the info is displayed. I log how I feel after the…

I have a Google Keep note where I record the results from the last workout. I figured out I really only need that. I don't need history, I just need to know how long ago was the last workout, how much did I lift / time under tension, so I can make a decision about today's program.

I love fancy graphs for my endurance work but for lifting, I feel like this is pretty much all I really need.

Re: Show HN: Workout Tracker – self-hosted, single binary web application

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Post by wredue »

Osiris wrote: post #25

By "Workout" do mean only exercise that can be tracked via GPS (walking, running, cycling)? It doesn't seem to track any indoor activities like weight lifting.

Yeah. I was also gleefully looking cause lifting trackers are universally garbage.

Diet trackers (Calorie Counters) are also almost universally a pain in the ass, but at least they’re tolerable.

There is not a single combined lifestyle experience that is any “good” IMO.

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