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Show HN: My seven minute workout timer evening project
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#102Great 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.
I agree that for the best results, changing it up (also called Muscle Confusion - http://athletics.wikia.com/wiki/Muscle_Confusion_Principle ) is also necessary. Instead of making your own workout (which most people are not qualified to do), we've built an app that asks for your goal, level, time, equipment, etc. to build you a personalized routine that changes as you go: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/pumpup-workou…
"Muscle Confusion" is not a legitimate physiological property.
It seems to be a mutated misunderstanding of "accommodation", which is almost entirely a nervous system phenomenon having almost little to do with adaptations in muscle tissue.
The best form of "changing it up" for hypertrophy is to modulate standard acute training variables. Merely randomly changing exercises is ... not efficient.
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#103Thanks again to everyone. I'm going to keep the webapp completely open and free as long as anyone is using it, and I'll definitely open up the code once I clean it a bit. If anyone would like to port it to IOS, I'd be happy to chat. lgsilver (at) gmail.com -- Lindsay
Great work. Just needs a beautiful favicon so it can look great sitting in my bookmarks bar ;-)
And then he could use Tinycon to show the timer in the favicon (totally useless but a nice detail): http://tommoor.github.io/tinycon/
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#104I'm using a slow Internet connection, so I notice when transitioning to a new workout, it shows the old workout picture for a second or two before the new workout picture loads. Perhaps you can load it during the rest period and just have it hidden?
P.S.: Great job! And great website idea!
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#105Would love to make the URL bar disappear in mobile Safari. Love the idea, I will do this workout now.
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#106This is great! Although I'm not quite sure the pace of the tasks. For example, for push ups, is it down on one beat and up on the next or one complete pushup per beat?
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#107thank you
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#108How is this useful? Do you stand and exercise in front of your computer or tablet computer?
its like a coach right there making sure you're on top of it
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#109Awesome project.
I will be using it. Although I have to second others.. It'd be nice to choose my exercises.
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#110Great! Bookmarked!
Feature request: a nice sound when each section is finished. Sometimes I'm not looking at the screen while doing the exercise, so a sound marking the section changes would be nice.