So funny, I just started designing something similar a few days ago, here is a shot of the dashboard http://dribbble.com/shots/1067433-Flat-Workout/attachments/1...
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#42Great idea, you could make a pretty cool app out of this: let people create routines by letting them associate pictures with exercise names and amount of seconds. They could then create workouts by creating a list of exercises and rest periods and play their routing with the timer you created. Does this exist? I want one.
For Android, there is a very simple free app called ExerTime ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aisknab.ex... ). It's not pretty and the configuration UI is both annoying and confusing (you must enter the total elapsed time at each step, not the time-per-step), but the normal use case works really well. The right options are available (notification sound, audio channel, text-to-speech, screen lock).
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#43This is awesome. Good job!
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#44Great work! I tried the workout for the first time after a run this afternoon... it kicked my butt! As I was following along on the ipad I was thinking a simple app would be perfect for this. Love the implementation and visuals!
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#46Thanks, good work.
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#47How is this useful? Do you stand and exercise in front of your computer or tablet computer?
Man, if only he'd have thought of that before he built it.
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#48How is this useful? Do you stand and exercise in front of your computer or tablet computer?
Or your laptop/phone. Or your web enabled TV. Or any modern gaming console.
Are you sure you are on the right site? This is a pretty tech-heavy news site.
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#49Nice work, just tried it out.
One suggestion would be to add a Switch pop-up if you run into exercises like Side Plank.
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#50Nice job! Little bit of feedback:
1. The images don't update until after the first tick of the new exercise. It would be nice if the updated when the rest screen changes to the new exercise screen with the timer and the text.
2. It would be cool if for exercises like the side plank (I think that's the only one in this set), where you hold something on each side, it gave you a halfway warning to tell you that it's time to turn over.
3. The rest period at the end isn't really necessary.