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Re: Select a muscle and it provides the exercises to workout the selected muscle

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Post by poutrathor » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 9:11 AM UTC

w0ts0n wrote: post #32

Thanks OP for sharing my website! Please be gentle with me. This is a project website that I built out of frustration a few years ago. I know there are things that need improving and a lot of things that could be adjusted. I work full time at Brave Software (brave.com) and simply don't have time to put a ton of effort into MuslceWiki. I do however have a big backlog of videos to add and I've slowly been working on an…

Hello, I saw you use Google traduction for providing non English support. Please drop the feature. It made non sense for French right off the bat :

> There is far more to the trapezius muscle than meets the eye. The traps are not just the muscle that sits on top of your shoulders.

> Il y a bien plus dans le muscle trapèze qu'il n'y paraît. Les pièges ne sont pas seulement le muscle qui repose sur vos épaules.

You could also use more medical terms all the time since Google autotrad seems to handle them better

Could the best be asking the community for translation proofing ?

Re: Select a muscle and it provides the exercises to workout the selected muscle

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Post by k_sze » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 9:18 AM UTC

w0ts0n wrote: post #32

Thanks OP for sharing my website! Please be gentle with me. This is a project website that I built out of frustration a few years ago. I know there are things that need improving and a lot of things that could be adjusted. I work full time at Brave Software (brave.com) and simply don't have time to put a ton of effort into MuslceWiki. I do however have a big backlog of videos to add and I've slowly been working on an…

It would be nice to add benchmarks to the exercises. E.g. how many push ups in a row (in a specific timespan, at a certain pace) a healthy person is expected to be able to do.

Re: Select a muscle and it provides the exercises to workout the selected muscle

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Post by HenryBemis » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 9:21 AM UTC

tyingq wrote: post #73

w0ts0n wrote: post #32

Thanks OP for sharing my website! Please be gentle with me. This is a project website that I built out of frustration a few years ago. I know there are things that need improving and a lot of things that could be adjusted. I work full time at Brave Software (brave.com) and simply don't have time to put a ton of effort into MuslceWiki. I do however have a big backlog of videos to add and I've slowly been working on an…

"Please be gentle with me." That guidance wasn't needed, really. It's refreshingly free of trendy design, and straightforward to use. And other things, like the ads not being in the way of the content. I'm sure you've got a list you're working on, but what's there looks great. One minor suggestion...there are some paths that lead you to a "muscle not found" page, like this: https://musclewiki.com/Barbell/Female/Calve…

Extra/complimentary suggestion to that: when the mouse cursor hovers over a muscle group further to the 'red patch', have a pop-up small text box with name and brief description of the specific red-ed part. It would be fun/educating for the regular folk (like me, who doesn't know each muscle group and/or their names) to just 'browse' the human body and see the name of that muscle group and what it does.

Edit: on the parts that are not a muscle group (e.g. face, "love-handles", feer/hands, 'throat', etc.) maybe paint them grey so they are visibly distinguishable from the 'muscle groups'. I was veri curious to see if the 'love-handles' region has any use apart storing fat.

Re: Select a muscle and it provides the exercises to workout the selected muscle

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Post by mrvenkman » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 9:27 AM UTC

This is such a great resource! I've started working out ... working out how to get fit! Lol. And it's a minefield but the way I can select which muscles I want to start with is a massive help.

Re: Select a muscle and it provides the exercises to workout the selected muscle

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Post by jehon11 » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 9:33 AM UTC

Thanks OP for building this! looks really great

Could you add a back button to bring me back to the muscle body diagram. Once I'm a few clicks into a muscle group and then equipment type, I can't easily back out to the main diagram again. I had to resort to clicking the homepage

Re: Select a muscle and it provides the exercises to workout the selected muscle

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Post by tasuki » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 9:34 AM UTC

Nice website!

I'd really like something reverse: select an exercise (running, cycling, etc) and show on a picture which muscles that exercise works.

Re: Select a muscle and it provides the exercises to workout the selected muscle

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Post by elric » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 9:35 AM UTC

fasteo wrote: post #190

Surprised that EXRX exercise database[1] has not been mentioned as a page with similar goals. They have been around since 1999, and the site is a gold mine for everything exercise related Darebee video library is good as well [2], and the site contains a lot of useful material. And the visual design is really good. [1] https://exrx.net/Lists/WtMale [2] https://darebee.com/video.html

EXRX is a true gem. Not only do they have a super comprehensive database of exercises and muscles, but they also have some good research and explanations on there.

Also, you can get a license to use their database on your platform.

Re: Select a muscle and it provides the exercises to workout the selected muscle

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Post by markdown » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 9:49 AM UTC

Was musclepedia taken?

Love the site. Thanks for making it :)

Re: Select a muscle and it provides the exercises to workout the selected muscle

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Post by mywacaday » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 9:55 AM UTC

w0ts0n wrote: post #32

Thanks OP for sharing my website! Please be gentle with me. This is a project website that I built out of frustration a few years ago. I know there are things that need improving and a lot of things that could be adjusted. I work full time at Brave Software (brave.com) and simply don't have time to put a ton of effort into MuslceWiki. I do however have a big backlog of videos to add and I've slowly been working on an…

FYI McAfee Web Gateway is flagging it as a parked domain, a lot of corporate users won't be able to access it.

Re: Select a muscle and it provides the exercises to workout the selected muscle

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Post by smitec » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 10:02 AM UTC

w0ts0n wrote: post #114

smitec wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Great website and kudos for making it. Noting you have limited spare time feel free to ignore but: I would love to be able to select a collection of exercises and see a visual of which muscle groups I do and don't have covered in the chosen exercises. Perhaps with some suggestions on exercises to cover those that are missing.

A problem I have with the site is I want to keep it EXTREMELY simple. How do you envision this working, with the current UI/UX?

Yeah, very reasonable question. I suppose a somewhat simple version could be to add exercises to a 'cart' and then change the colour muscle groups on the home page based on cart contents. Would then be pretty easy to click back and forth and colour in the desired groups. If I could then look at my cart when I'm happy I have good coverage that would probably be enough for my needs of 'does my workout plan have any blind spots'.