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Re: Show HN: Workout.lol – a web app to easily create a workout routine

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Post by TA_34545677 »

Just came here to say this, as someone who is visiting gyms for nearly 2 decades now and who has failed several times in launching whatever-fancy-app-product:

WOW!

WOW!!

WOW!!!

not only did you create something (thats step 1), you created something that works (you released a working version, clap clap), you created something with a real usecase (not the next get-rich-crypto-bro-app), AND:

from your current version, i see gazillion ways of extending/expanding the product.

Keep going - dont listen to the others :)

(if you think about monetization: Just watch a couple of these fitfluencer channels, and you will get tons of inspiration - also out of sport-channels, you will find lot of marketing ideas)

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Post by suddenclarity »

capableweb wrote: post #64
herculity275 wrote: post #59

I do feel like most beginner/intermediate lifters with gym access would be better served just picking a standard full-body workout routine (e.g. GZCLP) and sticking to it. Figuring out which muscle groups you'd like to be targeting with specialized exercises is not something you should be doing as a novice.

This strikes me as a general comment about workouts, not about this application specifically, correct? I see nothing to indicate this application is targeting novices in particular.

That's kinda the issue. Who does it target? You pick an equipment and a muscle, and it builds a workout with six exercises to target that one specific muscle. Your performance will suffer and it will take countless of gym sessions to go through the full body. Who would benefit from this workout?

It's one thing to use such a tool to find new exercises to target a specific body part but then you should probably use the source the tool is importing videos from, not build a full workout just to see.

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#75

Post by Vincenius »

hk__2 wrote: post #70

Very cool! Is it a choice or a limitation of MuscleWiki that videos exclusively show men?

Thanks! I just found later that MuscleWiki also has videos of women (not sure if they have it of all exercises though). I want to add an option to choose the video format in the future :)

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#77

Post by Vincenius »

TA_34545677 wrote: post #71

Just came here to say this, as someone who is visiting gyms for nearly 2 decades now and who has failed several times in launching whatever-fancy-app-product: WOW! WOW!! WOW!!! not only did you create something (thats step 1), you created something that works (you released a working version, clap clap), you created something with a real usecase (not the next get-rich-crypto-bro-app), AND: from your current version, i…

Thanks a lot!! Yeah, there is still a lot of room for extending this. I don't plan to monetize it at the moment but maybe in the future :)

So far it's just a fun side project which I enjoy working on

Re: Show HN: Workout.lol – a web app to easily create a workout routine

#79

Post by xwdv »

The fitness industry runs on the idea that you need a hundred variation of exercises to get fit. The truth is, you don’t need really more than a dozen. There are the five or six boring core lifts that everyone knows, and then maybe a handful of accessory exercises to hit some specific areas, and that’s it.

By doing the same exercises over and over, you build adaption (muscle growth) which forces you to increase weight or reps to raise difficulty over time. Eventually you get very strong muscles and are moving a good amount of mass.

By doing too many variants, you just waste time and never truly “adapt” to movements.

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Post by rob74 »

suddenclarity wrote: post #72
capableweb wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This strikes me as a general comment about workouts, not about this application specifically, correct? I see nothing to indicate this application is targeting novices in particular.

That's kinda the issue. Who does it target? You pick an equipment and a muscle, and it builds a workout with six exercises to target that one specific muscle. Your performance will suffer and it will take countless of gym sessions to go through the full body. Who would benefit from this workout? It's one thing to use such a tool to find new exercises to target a specific body part but then you should probably use the…

TBF, you can also select several muscle groups. But yes, consulting a specialist is definitely better...
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