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astashov / liftosaur

Weightlifting tracker app for coders
https://www.liftosaur.com
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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[Feature Request] - Weekly Schedule #47

Closed AdamGoertz closed 1 year ago

AdamGoertz commented 1 year ago

I love the concept of this app. The flexibility of being able to program the progression scheme for workouts is amazing.

The big major feature I feel is lacking still is the ability to create customized weekly schedules for each workout program. For example, to specify a Push/Pull/Legs routine that runs 6 days/week on Mon/Tue/Wed/Thu/Fri/Sat, with Sunday off. This would ideally couple into notifications and enable you to set reminders for specific times to start a workout.

astashov commented 1 year ago

Hey! You can name workouts like "Week 1 - Monday", "Week 1 - Wednesday", would that be enough? I guess the reminding part wouldn't work with that though...

Curious, what would you use the weeks for, except for the reminders?

astashov commented 1 year ago

I guess one big feature for weeks would be to properly track muscle volume and fatigue.

AdamGoertz commented 1 year ago

Yes, I think from the weekly schedule, the reminders and tracking statistics over longer periods of time would be the main benefit.

I suppose I also see this as an incremental step towards an even greater degree of control over workout programming on a more macro scale, which would require much more effort to implement. For example, I might divide my workouts into several high intensity weeks followed by a deload week, or in rotating multi-week blocks with different exercise variations. It would be useful to represent those higher-level abstractions in a schedule that can modify its constituent workouts rather than baking specific logic into each exercise.

Obviously, that’s well beyond the scope of what I stated above, but I see this as a step on the path toward that vision.

astashov commented 1 year ago

I suppose I also see this as an incremental step towards an even greater degree of control over workout programming on a more macro scale, which would require much more effort to implement. For example, I might divide my workouts into several high intensity weeks followed by a deload week, or in rotating multi-week blocks with different exercise variations. It would be useful to represent those higher-level abstractions in a schedule that can modify its constituent workouts rather than baking specific logic into each exercise.

Yup, that's a good point. It's actually kinda possible already, usually I just create a week state variable, and program different intensities and set schems based on it. As an example - GZCL: The Rippler program, which is a 12-week program with 3 mesocycles.

astashov commented 1 year ago

I guess I can close it since there's multi-week program support now