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Re: Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform

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Post by cssanchez »

I started working out without a trainer a few months ago as well as doing rehab for a nasty shoulder tear. Today I see the benefit of targeting precise muscles and muscle groups, unlike other beginners in this thread.

One feature request I'd add to the pipeline is to filter exercises available by Gym. Planet Fitness is ironically super unfriendly to beginners and limited in what they offer. People could add the exercises available at their gym and grow the database. Conversely, this could help beginner home gymmers plan what machines / weights to buy to maximize their routine.

Re: Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform

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Post by jhaile »

dybber wrote: post #29
marcuskaz wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agree, it seems like a mismatch of features and audience. As someone who doesn't know much about working out or what exercises to do this sounds like a good app. I need help, but picking based on muscles is off. My thought and goals are not by muscle group, but losing weight or getting more toned. Conversely, someone who knows what muscle groups they want to target, probably already has some sense of the exercises to…

For someone like me, who have had an accident (dislocated kneecap) and need to focus on special muscle groups to compensate it makes sense to search for exercises based on muscle groups.

Interesting, although I wouldn't say that's the audience that the author says he's targeting.

Also - for most people who had accidents they'd probably rather click on "Dislocated Kneecap" and then have the software suggest exercises to help with that condition - vs needing to bring that knowledge to the app.

Re: Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform

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Post by paul7986 »

edude03 wrote: post #46
paul7986 wrote: post #37

I count calories and use chatGPT to do so by taking pics of my meals / what I eat. I'm looking forward to Meta adding this feature to their Ray Ban smartglasses so the glasses automagically count my calories each time it sees food on my plate or going into my mouth. A feature they possibly should make optional, but for me who has prescription Metas it would be a big time saver (try to eat 1500 to 2000 calories a day…

You know counting calories by taking a picture literally doesn't work right? In fact, I'd argue it's one of the best examples of when an LLM confidently feeds you misinformation. An obvious example, a chicken breast fried in oil and a chicken breast air fried look identical, yet the oil fried one would have 3-4x the calories at least. Don't take my work for it though - this was just on HN the other day: https://news.…

Well i eat out almost always at healthy-ish chains (Cava, Panera, etc) so GPT gets the calories directly from each chains website. As for food prepared in regular restaurants I use it the same and its not precise but close same with home cooked meals per my testing the data.

Overall I am a bit obsessed but not that obsessed to the point it needs to be exact on-point precise.. just give me an idea of where my calorie count stands for anytime of the day. Just be way better if it was done auto-magically and Im betting this will be a good future use that gets people excited for smart glasses one of many upcoming innovations with them.

Re: Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform

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Post by cAtte_ »

surgomat wrote: post #31
abtinf wrote: post #26

Just out of curiosity: if the original project was open source, why did you decide to restart from scratch?

I actually tried really hard not to sent 15 emails over 9 months to the new owner, offering to help or even take over the repo but i had no replies. Issues and PRs were ignored(you juste have to see the issues section of the report). Rebuilding from scratch was the only way to fix the licensing & continue the project i guess

just fork it?

Re: Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform

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Post by [deleted] »

toyetic wrote: post #49
edude03 wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You know counting calories by taking a picture literally doesn't work right? In fact, I'd argue it's one of the best examples of when an LLM confidently feeds you misinformation. An obvious example, a chicken breast fried in oil and a chicken breast air fried look identical, yet the oil fried one would have 3-4x the calories at least. Don't take my work for it though - this was just on HN the other day: https://news.…

What happens if you give it that context though? Or prompt it to search the web for comparable meals?

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Re: Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform

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Post by abtinf »

surgomat wrote: post #31
abtinf wrote: post #26

Just out of curiosity: if the original project was open source, why did you decide to restart from scratch?

I actually tried really hard not to sent 15 emails over 9 months to the new owner, offering to help or even take over the repo but i had no replies. Issues and PRs were ignored(you juste have to see the issues section of the report). Rebuilding from scratch was the only way to fix the licensing & continue the project i guess

I think the missing context here is what is meant by “fix the licensing”. Both the original project and this new one are MIT, so naively there doesn’t seem to be an issue.

Re: Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform

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Post by surgomat »

Asraelite wrote: post #40
surgomat wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I actually tried really hard not to sent 15 emails over 9 months to the new owner, offering to help or even take over the repo but i had no replies. Issues and PRs were ignored(you juste have to see the issues section of the report). Rebuilding from scratch was the only way to fix the licensing & continue the project i guess

So why didn't you fork it? And what specifically were the licensing issues? workout.lol is MIT from what I can see.

the code was indeed MIT.

The licensing issue I referred to was about the videos: many of them came from paid/licensed sources

Re: Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform

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Post by RankingMember »

LostMyLogin wrote: post #9
toyetic wrote: post #6

This is cool, as someone whose been lifting for ~5 years its nice to see a fleshed out opensource tool for weightlifting. The main problem with any app I've tried is that after enough experience the bells and whistles of the app don't really matter and mostly what you care about is consistent tracking for progressive overload. I think this is a good app for people who want to get started weightlifting I would say the…

Hesitating to write this because I don't want to push back at all on OP but I'm not sure I agree that something like this is a good option for people wanting to get started in weightlifting. I'm not sure it's a good option for anyone really. I applaud OP for the effort but this is recommending some pretty awful workouts. For example if I select back and bi, it's giving me nine different exercises with complete disreg…

Agree. IMO a simple 5x5 is going to be the better option for someone just starting out. Stronglifts is one flavor with a great app that just works and tracks all the little stuff (progression, giving you a specific rest time) and, once you plateau, you can start digging in to other options.

Re: Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform

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Post by surgomat »

cAtte_ wrote: post #64
surgomat wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I actually tried really hard not to sent 15 emails over 9 months to the new owner, offering to help or even take over the repo but i had no replies. Issues and PRs were ignored(you juste have to see the issues section of the report). Rebuilding from scratch was the only way to fix the licensing & continue the project i guess

just fork it?

the original project was built in javascript with a NoSQL backend (mongo).

I wanted to move to a more "new", (robust?) and maintainable stack with TypeScript and a SQL-based backend (PostgreSQL)

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