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Am not sure what your data source is, but l run the following: - https://wrkout.xyz/ (exercise database api with images and videos) - https://github.com/wrkout/exercises.json (open source exercise dataset) If they are of any interest / help
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
Thanks for sharing -- I'm a personal trainer and will give this a shot. Is there any plan to allow users to create workouts to share (or does it already and I haven't discovered it yet?)?, or API integration with common platforms like Strava, Garmin Connect, Healthkit, Google Fit, Coros, etc?
Thanks to you ,really cool to have a personal trainer trying it out. Yes, sharing workouts is on the roadmap. Users will be able to create routines, save them, and share them with others (even with public links) as the previous workout-lol project. As for API integrations (Strava, Garmin, HealthKit, etc.) definitely something I’m open to. Curious to know : what kind of data would you want to sync or pull in? Workouts…
Think of it similar to the Strong app, but aimed at trainers/PTs.
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…
But I do agree with your assessment. Each exercise needs a categorization (compound, isolation), compliments (if an exercise is a push, then what are some pulls), companions (if you're working arms at the cable stack, might as well do a bunch of arm/shoulder/back cable exercises), and a est. time to perform (including warmup, setup). This will allow plans to be generated in a way that makes sense.
Though, I think community made exercise plans are a better solution than trying to devise algorithms to generate good plans. Though, an LLM integration might work well for beginners, send a prompt with a list of exercises and goals (i.e., beginner looking for a 3 day a week strength plan, build one using these 20 exercises).
The thing that's missing for me is suggestions on how much to lift / how many reps. There's a fitness program called 100 Pushups that came up with a good solution for that…
- Repeat the exercise (in this case, a push-up) as many times as possible until failure. A person might achieve 8, for example.
- The app comes up with a schedule; every other day, the user is expected to do a set of 3, 4, 3, 3, 5 (with a 2-minute rest between each set)
- The app's schedule has an algorithm that ramps up the reps at a pace that the user can manage — and self-adjusts if the schedule is too easy or too hard…
- until the user can do 100 push-ups at the 6-week period.
If there's any interest in this, I'd be open to discussing a UI and contributing.
Wow, this doesn't suck at all. The thing that's missing for me is suggestions on how much to lift / how many reps. There's a fitness program called 100 Pushups that came up with a good solution for that… - Repeat the exercise (in this case, a push-up) as many times as possible until failure. A person might achieve 8, for example. - The app comes up with a schedule; every other day, the user is expected to do a set of…
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…
The current onboarding assumes a bit too much knowledge up front (didn't expect that).
Bcs yeah, most beginners don’t think in terms of "rear delts" or "lats" they just want to "get stronger", feel better i guess
I'll be adding:
Optional muscle selection (or skipping it entirely)
Beginner-friendly presets like "Full Body", "Upper Body", etc.
OR suggested muscle groups with labels like "Chest + Triceps (Push)" / back-biceps... etc.
The goal is definitely not to make you study anatomy before you can get started lol and your feedback helps to build a smoother, more welcoming flow
Thanks again for that ! And welcome to the fitness journey! Hope to see you soon
This is great! I've been looking for an alternative to Strong, since it has a limit on the number of workout templates that you can have in the free version (and $100+ for such a simple app feels excessive). I added a link to my home screen to make it feel like an app and I'll give it a go for a week to see how it goes.
Adding it to your home screen is exactly the right move ahah i've done the same
Would love to hear your thoughts after a week of usage feel free to drop feedback anytime, i will add a button in the topbar called "Feedback" by the end of the week.
Thanks !
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…