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Track your workout from the iPhone Lock Screen

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Re: Track your workout from the iPhone Lock Screen

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Post by parkersweb »

mahmoudhossam wrote: post #6
tao_oat wrote: post #4

Interesting; I was looking for a replacement for Strong for iOS just yesterday. Strong was a great app but the dev hasn't been keeping up-to-date with iOS features like live activities and such. I found that there are loads of apps like this out there, with varying degrees of polish / paywalls. Don't get me wrong, this one doesn't look bad! But what I really want is a demonstrated long-term commitment to the app. If…

Hevy existed before gen AI took the world by storm and it's still being actively maintained, highly recommend checking it out. It even lets you import your workouts from Strong.

I tried Hevy based on hacker news recommendations - but I feel like I want more of a steer on what activities I should be doing. Hevy just seems to give me the same set over and over in trainer mode.

Re: Track your workout from the iPhone Lock Screen

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Post by toxik »

comrade1234 wrote: post #8

Anyone know a good timer where I, for example, set it for 1 minute and start it and then every 1 minute it plays a short sound. And that's it. No interaction required with the phone until I want the timer to stop. This is for rotating through a bunch of different stretches/exercises routine 1 minute per stretch Every app I've tried is too complicated.

Search for boxing timer.

Re: Track your workout from the iPhone Lock Screen

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Post by burkaman »

comrade1234 wrote: post #8

Anyone know a good timer where I, for example, set it for 1 minute and start it and then every 1 minute it plays a short sound. And that's it. No interaction required with the phone until I want the timer to stop. This is for rotating through a bunch of different stretches/exercises routine 1 minute per stretch Every app I've tried is too complicated.

This is kind of dumb but for any common interval length there is probably a YouTube video that's long enough for your workout. For example, 30 seconds and 1 minute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Bb4PfLvJE, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-AYC3_DbpY. Save the ones you need to a playlist and they should be pretty quick to access.

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Post by _mikz »

comrade1234 wrote: post #8

Anyone know a good timer where I, for example, set it for 1 minute and start it and then every 1 minute it plays a short sound. And that's it. No interaction required with the phone until I want the timer to stop. This is for rotating through a bunch of different stretches/exercises routine 1 minute per stretch Every app I've tried is too complicated.

Intervals Pro

Re: Track your workout from the iPhone Lock Screen

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Post by jwroberts »

parkersweb wrote: post #11
mahmoudhossam wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hevy existed before gen AI took the world by storm and it's still being actively maintained, highly recommend checking it out. It even lets you import your workouts from Strong.

I tried Hevy based on hacker news recommendations - but I feel like I want more of a steer on what activities I should be doing. Hevy just seems to give me the same set over and over in trainer mode.

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Re: Track your workout from the iPhone Lock Screen

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Post by samsin »

semiquaver wrote: post #9
comrade1234 wrote: post #8

Anyone know a good timer where I, for example, set it for 1 minute and start it and then every 1 minute it plays a short sound. And that's it. No interaction required with the phone until I want the timer to stop. This is for rotating through a bunch of different stretches/exercises routine 1 minute per stretch Every app I've tried is too complicated.

It would take about 2 minutes to code that up with an LLM, and not much longer to code it by hand. Building apps to scratch personal itches that would otherwise be infeasible is one of the best new capabilities that nearly everyone in the world has been recently granted.

Just 2 minutes and a $99USD/year Apple Developer account.

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Post by zimpenfish »

comrade1234 wrote: post #8

Anyone know a good timer where I, for example, set it for 1 minute and start it and then every 1 minute it plays a short sound. And that's it. No interaction required with the phone until I want the timer to stop. This is for rotating through a bunch of different stretches/exercises routine 1 minute per stretch Every app I've tried is too complicated.

I've used Seconds Pro[0] for this before - comes with a bunch of presets which were handy at the time but also has wide flexibility to create your own (a continuous 1 minute repeat with beep is easy.)

[0] https://www.intervaltimer.com/app

Re: Track your workout from the iPhone Lock Screen

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Post by mikestew »

comrade1234 wrote: post #8

Anyone know a good timer where I, for example, set it for 1 minute and start it and then every 1 minute it plays a short sound. And that's it. No interaction required with the phone until I want the timer to stop. This is for rotating through a bunch of different stretches/exercises routine 1 minute per stretch Every app I've tried is too complicated.

I created an Apple shortcut based on what I found here:

https://www.lifdb.com/posts/2024/12/17/how-to-create-an-inte...

It does “x minutes with y seconds recovery”, and for your use case you can set y=0.

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