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Re: Show HN: I made a community sourced fitness routine database

#111
Now that we're on the subject: Does anyone remember the Strength Standards site? strstd.com [0]. It computed your 1RM from your stats and then created customized weight lifting programs, like Starting Strength. I used it a lot when I started lifting. A part of it was similar to this: https://athletegrade.com/powerlifting/

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20150315012046/http://www.strstd...

Re: Show HN: I made a community sourced fitness routine database

#114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hope this isn't too over the top, but we built exactly this with https://impossiblefitness.com/movement/lateral-raise Written demo, video, photo, etc of each movement. We are adding more movements daily. Please give me a shout if there's other information you'd want to see here.

One thing I'd love to see here is better formatting of the instructions. The content is great, but I found it a little jumbled to read. Here's an image of the current format, and an image of a proposed format as an example of what I mean. https://imgur.com/a/rXPU4nr

Bumped into an issue with formatting. Cleaning this up this week.

Anything else structural wise you'd like to see?

Re: Show HN: I made a community sourced fitness routine database

#115
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Would _love_ to see a community sourced database of "explain it like I'm 5" translations. Example: What does "Bent Over Lateral Raise" mean? Show me? Lateral ... to what? I'm sure I can figure that out, but, for the newbies of the world it's another hurdle to keep them from actually starting/moving.

Hope this isn't too over the top, but we built exactly this with https://impossiblefitness.com/movement/lateral-raise Written demo, video, photo, etc of each movement. We are adding more movements daily. Please give me a shout if there's other information you'd want to see here.

This is really great! Thank you!

Re: Show HN: I made a community sourced fitness routine database

#116
post #4

Would _love_ to see a community sourced database of "explain it like I'm 5" translations. Example: What does "Bent Over Lateral Raise" mean? Show me? Lateral ... to what? I'm sure I can figure that out, but, for the newbies of the world it's another hurdle to keep them from actually starting/moving.

Great idea, thanks for the feedback!

Not a problem :). Thanks for the new resource!

Re: Show HN: I made a community sourced fitness routine database

#118
post #113

When I clicked on the Sign In button from the email it took me to a page that showed another Sign Up button even though when I navigated to the homepage I was already signed in, this was very confusing and made me enter my email like 10 times.

Thanks for the info. I think the email is redirecting to the wrong page. It should still sign you in though. Do you appear signed in on this page? https://www.routinedb.com/routines

Re: Show HN: I made a community sourced fitness routine database

#119
post #113

When I clicked on the Sign In button from the email it took me to a page that showed another Sign Up button even though when I navigated to the homepage I was already signed in, this was very confusing and made me enter my email like 10 times.

Thanks for the info. I think the email is redirecting to the wrong page. It should still sign you in though. Do you appear signed in on this page? https://www.routinedb.com/routines

Yes I was signed in, there was just no way for me to tell that I was until I navigated to the homepage manually and saw the navbar changed.

Re: Show HN: I made a community sourced fitness routine database

#120
This is in no way a critique of this project (which looks nice!) but my dream fitness program would be something like, "do all the things in this book, in order, and by the end of the book you'll be mostly fit". I'm sure it works great for some people but I get bogged down by choice paralysis when I'm presented with a list of workouts.
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