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

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Post by almara »

ajonit wrote: post #34

Kudos! Desk workers are going to love this. You have kept the duration short and gamified it as well in the form of streaks. It should go viral. A piece of feedback for the transition between two exercises. You may want to stop the bottom watch altogether during transition and - somewhere on top right -start a simple circular time animation 5..4..3 In the current form the transition looks bit confusing. In any case,…

Yep I definitely need to work on that transition (I'm the type of person that spaces out easily and would lose track of whether I'm in a break or exercise). I'll play around with a couple of ideas and hopefully resolve it tomorrow

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

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Post by Vinnl »

almara wrote: post #16
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!

Makes sense, thank you! I initially thought having the 'get ready for the next exercise' would help people understand that it's a break but given the feedback I definitely need the descriptions there too. Any idea on how to still make it clear that it's a break? Re: the beeps, couldn't agree more. While building it I also found them annoying but I deprioritised that for the first launch.

> Any idea on how to still make it clear that it's a break?

Not a UX designer, but you could consider having a de-emphasised (smaller font, subdued colour, no illustration) "Next:" underneath every instruction that describes what's upcoming. For regular exercises, that could just say "Break", whereas during the breaks, it could show the next exercise. That way, it's always clear what's the current task and what's up next.

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

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Post by TomK32 »

almara wrote: post #54
dugmartin wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Add a login and a private employee leaderboard for social pressure :)

Yep! Who doesn't love a bit of gamification?

I have just one KOM on strava but I keep telling everyone about it. It's also the most stupid one in town, a sprint on a bridge...

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

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Post by almara »

zufallsheld wrote: post #63

More feedback: I used it on my mobile but the screen went dark and the timer stopped. Is there a way for you to stop this? Awesome tool!

Thanks! I had a couple of things implemented to avoid this but they haven't worked in mobile (in desktop it behaves as expected AFAIK, not turning off the screen while in the routine). Do you mind sharing your OS and browser?

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

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Post by ericmay »

oweiler wrote: post #27
ericmay wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm reading that now as well. One of the interesting things so far is the author asserts that stretching does nothing for you, which I find controversial and doesn't align with my experience but I also don't have any evidence or reason per-se to contradict that claim either. I do know that a 15-minute "stretch routine" should either substitute or incorporate push-ups, squats, and other, similar basic movements in the…

In the other hand regular running (w/o stretching) has fixed all my back pain.

Being more active in general (walking or running) should alleviate some back pain. Stretching alone wouldn't and shouldn't be expected to because the problem isn't "my muscles need to stretch" it's "my muscles need to be in use" and they need to be in use in a full-body context, not in isolation.

Glad to see you've found something that has helped with your back pain. I've been taking more walks now that my life has gotten a little less chaotic and the weather is warmer and what do you know? There goes the back pain. Standing desk helps too but it's mostly the walking.

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

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Post by almara »

throwaway45467 wrote: post #62

Thanks! FYI, on 2016 iPhone SE Safari, the pause button/counter/progress bar cover the text and make it unreadable. Will likely be using your app daily, though. The images clearly show what to do.

Thanks for letting me know (and so happy that you'll be back)! I'll do more responsiveness fixes tomorrow as I based my media queries based on responsive testing in the chrome console and it definitely needs some work

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

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Post by diarrhea »

ericmay wrote: post #11
civilaircraft wrote: post #8

On the same topic, I highly recommend the new book Built to Move that can benefit all of us desk workers.

I'm reading that now as well. One of the interesting things so far is the author asserts that stretching does nothing for you, which I find controversial and doesn't align with my experience but I also don't have any evidence or reason per-se to contradict that claim either. I do know that a 15-minute "stretch routine" should either substitute or incorporate push-ups, squats, and other, similar basic movements in the…

Mankind has pushed boundaries far beyond anyone’s wildest imaginations in countless scientific fields.

Yet in 2023, there’s no consensus on stretching. Boggles the mind.

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

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Post by wccrawford »

masukomi wrote: post #42
yakubin wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The only time I'm annoyed by corrections is when it's halting the conversation and stopping others from progressing towards the goal.

Since this forum has threaded conversations, someone can correct grammar at the same time that someone else is progressing the discussion, so I wouldn't have a problem with it here.

Well, okay, there's another time: If they're obviously being mean about it. But I think most people would dislike that, regardless of context.

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