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

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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 exerc…

Thanks for sharing your experience I’m glad to hear you're finding value in understanding muscle targeting.

Bcs It's true that most beginners tend to think in terms of "full body" or "upper body" rather than doing a structured split let's say. They don’t usually say "I want to train my posterior deltoids and lats" lol

I love the idea of filtering exercises by gym type or gym but can be hard to handle for "private" gyms and will also need some kind of moderation... Could work for large branded gyms though.

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

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Were those intended to be "do it in this order" or were they just options? I got the feeling they were more options and you could reorder them if you wanted or shuffle or just do one or another. To me a more casual / getting started is just about doing the thing.

I'm not sure a beginner would know what order to place them in nor would they recognize the potential injury risk associated with stacking some of these exercises. Beginners should be focusing on form and simple compound lifts. Throwing them into things like heavy accessory lifts with no regard for exercise choice or format is a quick way to get hurt. Again, I want to applaud OP for doing this. The fitness industry i…

What are the odds someone is going to get hurt?

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

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It does not appear to be working for me right now, I get "error loading exercises". What are your thoughts about the wger project [0]? It is a FLOSS AGPL-licensed self-hosted fitness/workout/nutrition manager that has existed for almost a decade (I think?) It's a django app and has a companion flutter app that runs on android/ios/windows/linux/macos. It supports multiple users and could even be used to run a gym. Bod…

I got the same error.

same for me >> Error loading exercises

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

#95

Oh funny to see it here. I'm the original author of workout.lol. I sold the app to a guy who seemed to just abandoned it. I also texted him multiple times if he needs support, but he didn't answer anymore. It makes me really happy to see it being maintained again! Great work on the UI improvements.

So… someone in the industry bought it hoping to stop a free alternative from getting popular? Wonder what will happen to this one

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

#96
As a fitness newbie, my first and most immediate feedback is confusion at the otherwise delightful muscle selection interface, which seems to be required during onboarding before I can see what the product does. I'm loosely aware of "push", "pull" and "leg" groupings, but I'm not personally familiar with what specific muscles each routine is actually meant to target.

This seems to mean the app is currently only meant for those who want to seriously study their anatomy. Would it be possible to ease a novice into things more gently somehow? Perhaps with recommended muscle groups?

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

#97

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HN Kiss of death or love :-). You are #1 on the front page now, so that was expected. Can I say the HN audience is very health-conscious? :-) Selected a few workouts and got this error - Error loading exercises . I'll try again after a few hours. Congratulations on the launch!!

Haha thank you! Wasn’t expecting this kind of attention so quickly tbh The issue should be fixed RN ! Definitely feeling the HN kiss of traffic right now lol, Ii’m scaling things up and fixing the bottlenecks Really appreciate you trying it out. And yes seems like the HN crowd is more health-conscious than I thought. Loooove it ! Thanks again for the kind words and support!

Cool problems to have, enjoy the ride!

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

#98

"Error loading exercises" on what should be a simple SQL where query? and no way to retry the selection without refreshing the page.

Yeap,was due to some backend rate limiting issues (got unexpectedly HN'd lol), but should be fixed ! Thanks for calling it out !
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