Why cant you just go excercise?
Once you've developed a habit, you will just go exercise.
This app is designed to help you develop that habit.
Show HN: Simple tool to make a habit of exercising
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#42No app will work. You just have to reprogram yourself to do it. Nothing else but ACTION will suffice for exercising. A very fit friend of mine said to me many years ago "I just don't give myself any choice about whether I'm going to the gym." You can talk and use apps and make plans and get trainers and coaches and excuses etc etc etc but in the end the ONLY thing that works is ACTION - go and exercise. Find an exerc…
You sound like a CrossFit person haha. But seriously, there is a place for tools and apps in working out for some people. My Apple Watch has made my exercise more regular and progress significantly more measurable for me.
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#43No app will work. You just have to reprogram yourself to do it. Nothing else but ACTION will suffice for exercising. A very fit friend of mine said to me many years ago "I just don't give myself any choice about whether I'm going to the gym." You can talk and use apps and make plans and get trainers and coaches and excuses etc etc etc but in the end the ONLY thing that works is ACTION - go and exercise. Find an exerc…
Having said that - I think it's a great business to make apps for this stuff and there is big money in it.
The reason is simply because people don't want to take action. They want to procrastinate and avoid and find ways of almost exercising and there's absolutely no better way to do that than to delegate all your emotional energy on the subject to some sort of app.
Apps to encourage you to exercise are awesome business - they just aren't a way to actually become an exercising person but who really cares about that.
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#44No app will work. You just have to reprogram yourself to do it. Nothing else but ACTION will suffice for exercising. A very fit friend of mine said to me many years ago "I just don't give myself any choice about whether I'm going to the gym." You can talk and use apps and make plans and get trainers and coaches and excuses etc etc etc but in the end the ONLY thing that works is ACTION - go and exercise. Find an exerc…
You sound like a CrossFit person haha. But seriously, there is a place for tools and apps in working out for some people. My Apple Watch has made my exercise more regular and progress significantly more measurable for me.
>> You sound like a CrossFit person haha
No just an inherently sedentary programmer - I'm no CrossFit evangelist - it's just a highly time efficient way to meet the goal of being fitter and returning to programming.
I think the secret to actually exercising is understanding what you do and do not like and finding exercise that suits you. If I go to the gym on my own I get bored and I do not push myself thus I do not get much fitter. So CrossFit is part of the success secret for me because it is effectively a group gym program in which I must do what I am told whilst I am there - unlike going to the gym on my own, getting bored and lazy and dropping it because it's not working for me.
Since I am too lazy to exercise intensively I need to be in a structured environment to do that.
Going to a group exercise class requires nothing more of you than turning up - motivating yourself just to arrive somewhere is much easier to do than motivating yourself to self plan and self drive an entire workout.
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#45I like it a lot, thank you.
Quick notes: i couldn’t find a way to delete a task, and the task directory table doesn’t fit on an iPhone 8 held vertically.
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#46Streaks are often self-defeating. A few samples from the duolingo forums where this comes up frequently: https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/17598950/The-demotivation... https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/3705144/Streak-Breaker-Wh... https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/7927344/Lost-streak-and-m...
I had a several hundred day streak on duolingo, lost it and haven't opened the app since. Why would I, all my hard work is lost? I didn't actively think about it until I saw this.
Would your streak ever have gotten to several hundred days long if the streak mechanic didn't exist? Gamification is about both the carrot and the stick. The stick can certainly be demotivating in the wrong situations, but it also has plenty of motivational force. I have felt the sting of losing a 3 digit day streak too. The Apple Watch is even more unforgiving in that regard than Duolingo. The first time it happened to me it sent me into a week plus of totally ignoring the goals because of what I "lost". What got me out of that funk was revisiting the whole purpose of why I started with fitness gamification. I wasn't trying to get a number on my watch to increment 1 every 24 hours. Who cares about that? I was trying to get healthier. So I got to work on another streak. Sometimes I lose it due to some extenuating circumstances like being sick, getting injured, or having some all day social event and there is occasionally a hangover before I can back into the swing of things with another streak. However there are also days in which I get home at the end of the day, I didn't work out at all, and my choice is to either veg out on the couch for an hour or workout to continue my streak. As long as there are more days like that than days I sulk over a lost streak, I come out ahead.
TL;DR - Your hard work wasn't lost. Your knowledge of that language didn't disappear when that streak ended. You just forgot why you downloaded Duolingo in the first place.
Re: Show HN: Simple tool to make a habit of exercising
#47The front page has a clear design explaining the idea. Working on a product myself the one liner and short explanations are harder to create than most people imagine. Good job.
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#48(sincere) Thank you for making the product that I had as just an idea. I thought about a workout BFF in terms of a good commitment device. My other angle on this kind of commitment device was someone to call me to wake me up in the morning. :) Great stuff!
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
I had a several hundred day streak on duolingo, lost it and haven't opened the app since. Why would I, all my hard work is lost? I didn't actively think about it until I saw this.
Sounds like poor streak design if it never lets you miss a day. Kind of tragic that they'd impose that on humans.
They have streak freeze now. Not sure if it’s because I’m a premium subscriber or not, but it keeps my streak going if I miss a day but come back.
Re: Show HN: Simple tool to make a habit of exercising
#50No app will work. You just have to reprogram yourself to do it. Nothing else but ACTION will suffice for exercising. A very fit friend of mine said to me many years ago "I just don't give myself any choice about whether I'm going to the gym." You can talk and use apps and make plans and get trainers and coaches and excuses etc etc etc but in the end the ONLY thing that works is ACTION - go and exercise. Find an exerc…
I had some success with https://www.beeminder.com/ in my short time of using it so far. Essentially, it moves items from "important + not urgent" quadrant to "not important + urgent" one: by dinging your card $X dollars if you don't comply.
However, I also had to shift my mindset towards trying to progress via small inconsequential chunks, rather than trying to "fix everything". E.g. the idea is to just show up to the gym - not exercise - but if latter happens, then sure, why not (and it usually does). I think it helps snap out of the failure avoidance mode.