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Re: Show HN: A 15 min daily stretch routine for desk workers

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Post by Brystephor »

looks neat! I think I found a couple of bugs:

1. East seated twist left and right have their icons switched. The twist left states to put your left hand on your right knee, but it shows the person with their left hand on the back of the chair. 2. When you first start and are on the 5 second count down page, you can scroll through exercises. 3. Once that 5 second page moves on, if you're on the first exercise and click back, it takes you to the last exercise in the routine. I found this unintuitive since I was actually trying to see what the 5 second page was telling me and didn't realize it was just a "get ready" countdown.

Re: Show HN: A 15 min daily stretch routine for desk workers

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Post by masukomi »

yakubin wrote: post #35
jascii wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It certainly tends to be perceived that way by the person corrected. It's also debatable whether nitpicking on someone's grammar is "correcting their language", linguists tend to think it's not: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

I’m a non-native English speaker and I always appreciate corrections. Same is true for most non-native speakers I know personally. Most commonly I see this concern for possible offence at being corrected for bad English come from native English speakers, which is peculiar. (I don’t know if it’s true in this instance.)

I'm a native speaker and I always appreciate corrections.

Getting upset about being corrected means you've got so much hubris as to think that you think you couldn't possibly be making any mistakes, or so much ego as to think you are above being corrected... or both.

To NOT correct people because we might "offend" them leads to a world of clueless idiots thinking they're infallible geniuses.... Crap. We're too late.

Re: Show HN: A 15 min daily stretch routine for desk workers

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Post by glonq »

Stretching is one of those things that you ignore when you are 20 but becomes vital when you are 50+.

The main reason why we lose strength, flexibilty, balance, and endurance when we get old is because we let that happen. We stop exercising those attributes so they atrophy.

Re: Show HN: A 15 min daily stretch routine for desk workers

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Post by ericmay »

tomjakubowski wrote: post #39
count wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Historically his perspective was that it wasn't necessary . If you're getting full range of motion exercise, you don't need to stretch, because the exercise itself is doing what needs to be done.

Right. Personally I've observed my squat form and ROM are much better if I stretch my hamstrings first. So I stretch first to get more benefit from the exercise.

I bet it changes based on a few factors including age, prior mobility, etc. I do a few things at my current age:

  I wear Vibram "toe-shoes" so that my heel isn't lifted off the ground when I squat or do other movements and unless I'm lifting very heavy I go below parallel
  I warm up by doing either some prescribed warm-ups or by getting on the air bike/rowing for a few minutes + other warm-up activities
  I do the exact exercise movement I'm going to be doing if it's a movement like a snatch, clean and jerk, deadlift, squat, etc. to warm-up
I don't do any stretching before or after. It's absolutely fascinating that so many different things work for so many people.

Re: Show HN: A 15 min daily stretch routine for desk workers

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Post by TomK32 »

Faaaaar tooooo maaaaany bits in that routine, I can't even bother counting beyond ten. How about just six and repeat then two or three times? I won't need it myself as I have a standing desk with a bar stool if I need some rest and go to the gym during winter and roadbike in summer, but at the gym I have a muscle routine (turns out cyclists only have muscles in their legs) that is just eight stations with the classic 3x10-15 repeats.

Re: Show HN: A 15 min daily stretch routine for desk workers

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Post by almara »

dugmartin wrote: post #38

Thanks for building this! Next step is hooking up a Slackbot with daily reminders and selling it to businesses as an employee wellness program. I think the 40+ person I work at would sign up for it

Thanks! You might see a B2B version coming soon ;)

Re: Show HN: A 15 min daily stretch routine for desk workers

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Post by shekhar101 »

rottencupcakes wrote: post #22
shekhar101 wrote: post #14

This is excellent! I just followed along the routine and 2 small feedbacks: 1. Please show the instructions before the stretch begins. Right now it says get ready for the next stretch. It would be useful to be able to read instructions before the stretch starts. 2. Beeps can be slightly shorter. In long term, I can see it getting a little annoying. Other than that, excellent work and great illustrations. Thank you!

Just fyi, feedback is uncountable, similar to knowledge. If you want to provide a number, you would say "2 small pieces of feedback"

Thank you! I am not a native speaker and I found this helpful. :)

Re: Show HN: A 15 min daily stretch routine for desk workers

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Post by dogma1138 »

TomK32 wrote: post #45

Faaaaar tooooo maaaaany bits in that routine, I can't even bother counting beyond ten. How about just six and repeat then two or three times? I won't need it myself as I have a standing desk with a bar stool if I need some rest and go to the gym during winter and roadbike in summer, but at the gym I have a muscle routine (turns out cyclists only have muscles in their legs) that is just eight stations with the classic…

Standing desk doesn’t do squat for your flexibility.

You should be able using both hands to reach every spot on your back or there about.

You should be able to sit down on the floor with your hips bent at 90 degrees whilst both your legs are straight and your knees pointing upwards and unbent.

You should be able to sit at 90 degrees to the floor straight on your ass whilst having your legs inter locked (“Indian sitting”)

You should be able to sit down on your shins by bending your knees the top of the foot should be in line with your shins and your ass should be comfortably sitting on your ankles. (Japanese sitting)

You should be able to touch your toes without bending your knees and preferably without flexing your back especially the lower and mid back.

If you can’t do all 6 you need a routine to work on at least your weak spots.

Re: Show HN: A 15 min daily stretch routine for desk workers

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Post by almara »

TomK32 wrote: post #45

Faaaaar tooooo maaaaany bits in that routine, I can't even bother counting beyond ten. How about just six and repeat then two or three times? I won't need it myself as I have a standing desk with a bar stool if I need some rest and go to the gym during winter and roadbike in summer, but at the gym I have a muscle routine (turns out cyclists only have muscles in their legs) that is just eight stations with the classic…

For this first version I followed the recommended guidelines of holding stretches for 30s (and if they are different for left and right then it would should as 2 exercises but in reality it's one if that makes sense). Having said that, still working on the best formula so thanks for the feedback!
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