Nice, but what if someone comes out with 6 minute abs, then you're in trouble! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB2di69FmhE
We're already in trouble in so many ways! LOL
Show HN: Workout Daily. We text new 7-minute workouts daily to make fitness easy
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Re: Show HN: Workout Daily. We text new 7-minute workouts daily to make fitness easy
#32There are also plenty of 7 minute workout videos on youtube.
Yup. What we're hearing from users is going into YouTube and finding the workouts is kind of a pain, and then you also have to do the workout. Our user is crazy busy, mostly working parents, tiny slices of time in their day to workout. It's worth it to them to pay $20/mo to get a new workout texted. We have yet to see if LOTS of people want that, tho! Free is def a nice price.
Re: Show HN: Workout Daily. We text new 7-minute workouts daily to make fitness easy
#33Certainly this is better than nothing, but do 7-minute workouts actually have an large impact?
It depends on where you start. Exercise and training follow a very basic dose/response relationship where the higher you start, the more you need to progress. If you are a couch potato, 7 minutes a day will give you a lot of progress... until it doesn't. For example my starting point would be training four times a week and squatting 500lbs, so it probably wouldn't do much for me. I wouldn't replace my current exercis…
I challenge you to try our ab workouts for 30 days ;) You would be surprised. We start with a basic fitness assessment to measure your upper body and core strength. Unless you are already starting out in the 90th percentile, you will most likely experience a 20% gain in ab strength after 30 days if you do the workouts every day. This is what the data is telling us after a year of tracking users and their results.
Re: Show HN: Workout Daily. We text new 7-minute workouts daily to make fitness easy
#34Certainly this is better than nothing, but do 7-minute workouts actually have an large impact?
Yes, they do. This article about the science behind 7 minute workouts (it's about intensity, not duration) generated a lot of interest: https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/the-scientific-7-m...
This is good to know! The researchers we're in touch with say there needs to be more evidence and longitudinal studies until the science behind 7-min workouts is certain. The habit-formation strategies -- and the effect of things like text-based health interventions -- have been fairly well researched though! Some of the best research labs in the world, like UCSF, are actively studying text-based cues and coaching today.
Re: Show HN: Workout Daily. We text new 7-minute workouts daily to make fitness easy
#35It's a good idea, kind of like a distributed gym. I think they need to invest more into convincing us that 7 minutes a day will do something for our health.
This is such a good point! We definitely need to do that. What would convince you? The CDC guidelines for exercise To maintain your weight: Work your way up to 150 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic activity, 75 minutes of vigorous-intensity aerobic activity, or an equivalent mix of the two each week. Problem is most people aren't doing anywhere close to the CDC guidelines. What we're hearing from users is that th…
I think any reference to an authority is enough for people. Something like what you mention in your reply would be good to work in to the marketing material somewhere.
Re: Show HN: Workout Daily. We text new 7-minute workouts daily to make fitness easy
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
It depends on where you start. Exercise and training follow a very basic dose/response relationship where the higher you start, the more you need to progress. If you are a couch potato, 7 minutes a day will give you a lot of progress... until it doesn't. For example my starting point would be training four times a week and squatting 500lbs, so it probably wouldn't do much for me. I wouldn't replace my current exercis…
I challenge you to try our ab workouts for 30 days ;) You would be surprised. We start with a basic fitness assessment to measure your upper body and core strength. Unless you are already starting out in the 90th percentile, you will most likely experience a 20% gain in ab strength after 30 days if you do the workouts every day. This is what the data is telling us after a year of tracking users and their results.
I'm sure it's very nice, but what I said is that I would do that in addition to my training instead of replacement! If my abs can stabilise my trunk for a 500lbs squat or a 600lbs deadlift, they're strong enough for me :)
Re: Show HN: Workout Daily. We text new 7-minute workouts daily to make fitness easy
#37Is a daily 7-minute workout better than a 30-minute workout three or four times per week? I've followed the Mark Lauren 90-day bodyweight challenge with good results (using his book) - didn't loose weight (wasn't trying to) but got a lot fitter. It's about 30 minutes of training plus warmup and cooldown so the total time invested is more than that.
I always say the best workout is the one you look forward to. If you are currently doing 30min 3-4x a week - and you change the exercises every 2 weeks (so you don't plateau0 - then you are following what most trainers would say is the ideal protocol for strength training. You're also hitting the CDC guidelines. Ideally you would also be getting 120-150min of vigorous cardio in there as well. Definitely going to chec…
Not to be needlessly confrontational, but unless you are referring to general training modalities (change in load/volume/RPE) the change of exercise every 2 weeks is definitely not a good thing for strength training. A big part of strength is skill acquisition both in terms of technique and in terms of neuromuscular efficiency, and that necessitates giving yourself enough time to learn a movement to a repeatable form (i.e. maybe not perfect, but consistent) and then enough time for your muscles to accommodate to higher and higher loads. If you don't then you are putting yourself in a perpetual state of learning a new movement, instead of getting good at it.
Re: Show HN: Workout Daily. We text new 7-minute workouts daily to make fitness easy
#38Is a daily 7-minute workout better than a 30-minute workout three or four times per week? I've followed the Mark Lauren 90-day bodyweight challenge with good results (using his book) - didn't loose weight (wasn't trying to) but got a lot fitter. It's about 30 minutes of training plus warmup and cooldown so the total time invested is more than that.
Physical training follows a fairly typical bell curve-ish dose/response relationship, where more training gives you less and less benefit until you reach a point where your recovery cannot catch up and you get worse. 7 min per day isn't bad because it's a very small time investment that can yield a lot of result for anybody who cannot do anything else, but that's really about it. If you are liking Mark Lauren's strategy you should stick with it. You could probably do both ML's program and this one to be honest.
The 2018 guidelines of activity for physical activity for general health [1] are the following:
* 150 to 300 minutes per week of moderate-intensity aerobic physical activity, OR;
* 75 to 150 minutes per week of vigorous-intensity aerobic physical activity, AND;
* Resistance training of moderate or greater intensity involving all major muscle groups on 2 or more days per week.
[1]: (PDF warning) https://health.gov/sites/default/files/2019-09/Physical_Acti...
Re: Show HN: Workout Daily. We text new 7-minute workouts daily to make fitness easy
#39Is a daily 7-minute workout better than a 30-minute workout three or four times per week? I've followed the Mark Lauren 90-day bodyweight challenge with good results (using his book) - didn't loose weight (wasn't trying to) but got a lot fitter. It's about 30 minutes of training plus warmup and cooldown so the total time invested is more than that.
I usually do a 20-25 minute VR workout using a game I developed for myself.
You could say it is optimized to give the maximum full body workout you can do in a limited space with no additional equippment (except for the VR headset of course).
I top out at 17.9 kcal/min tracked with a Polar H10 chest strap and the vrhealth institute app.
Here is a shorter workout of last night [1] it's 328kcal in a little over 18 minutes.
The game has the very inspiring name VRWorkout [2]
[1] https://twitter.com/MichaelGschwan5/status/12730156899730391... [2] https://vrworkout.at