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

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Post by balls187 »

almara wrote: post #2

I created this side project for my partner, who is constantly complaining about how stiff his body is. Hopefully it’ll help other tech workers stretch out and feel better! (PS: this is my first project launch so any feedback would be greatly appreciated).

Is the intention to have tech workers do this during a short break or before, after work?

Seeing the iconography of women in yoga clothes invokes “workout” which means “I do this before/after work” and “I need to change out of my work clothes.”

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

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Post by pantojax45 »

jascii wrote: post #33
yakubin wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Correcting someone’s language is not putting them down.

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...

In this case, the person was happy to be corrected: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35644828

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

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Post by danielvaughn »

I've been trying to get into a routine where every time I take a bathroom break, I do like 10 pushups or something. Even a very small activity like that does wonders in getting the blood pumping, and actually helps me with my typical afternoon drowsiness.

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

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Post by simmerup »

diarrhea wrote: post #69
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…

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.

You say stretching as if it's simple. But there's plenty of components it affects that are anything but. Hell, the importance fascia is only just really getting unravelled.

Plenty of opportunity to further humanity's knowledge on a subject there.

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

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Post by sylphaenos »

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.

Not a designer, but for me it would help if breaks were distinguished visually from exercises–both types of screens look the same.

A different background color, font, or something visual in addition to text clues would go a long way for me. I definitely paid more attention to the timer & beeps on break screens than the text.

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

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Post by peter_l_downs »

almara wrote: post #2

I created this side project for my partner, who is constantly complaining about how stiff his body is. Hopefully it’ll help other tech workers stretch out and feel better! (PS: this is my first project launch so any feedback would be greatly appreciated).

Just wanted to say congratulations on launching your first project! This is quite well done.

One piece of feedback: I'm sure your partner trusts you and has asked you how you came up with this routine, but we random internet users can't do that and the site currently doesn't do anything to convince us that we should follow this routine. One way you could build trust with your users is by including a link to the source for the routine, or a short explanation of why you've chosen these stretches, in this order. Another way you could approach the problem of building trust is by making the routine adjustable or editable, or allowing the user to pick between different routines or exercises. I think it will be hard to get someone to commit to doing 15 minutes of stretching, every day, without doing some kind of education or somehow building this trust.

Again, great launch / v1, and congratulations! No need to try to make it anything more than this if your target demographic (your partner) is already happy :)

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

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Post by 12907835202 »

A small improvement in my life I made was to always use the disabled toilet at work and spend a few seconds stretching and sometimes even doing 10 squats or push ups.

I don't have the confidence to do something like that in front of other people.

But now I do it 5 or so times a day everytime I pee.

Perhaps I could add these stretches although 15 minutes is too long, perhaps in 5 lots of 3 or 2 minutes once an hour or something.

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

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Post by mhb »

12907835202 wrote: post #89

A small improvement in my life I made was to always use the disabled toilet at work and spend a few seconds stretching and sometimes even doing 10 squats or push ups. I don't have the confidence to do something like that in front of other people. But now I do it 5 or so times a day everytime I pee. Perhaps I could add these stretches although 15 minutes is too long, perhaps in 5 lots of 3 or 2 minutes once an hour or…

You're doing pushups on a bathroom floor?
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