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1 month ago Team's Response
A list of common exercises is not present as there are too many niche exercises to list fully. As such, it is an intended feature to leave the weights up to the user, since it for their own tracking.
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Reason for disagreement: Even if there are too many niche exercises to list fully, this excuse does not counter my argument that "one still has to consider the type of exercise that the user is doing for it to make sense".
Many of the fitness apps today (for example myfitnesspal) address this issue by having a pre-set list of common exercises but also allow the user to custom add on exercises that are not in their pre-set list. Other than for convenience, having a pre-set list also serves as a guide for beginners who have zero knowledge on fitness, and might need some reference/ guidelines for inputting values that may or may not make sense with regards to that specific exercise. In terms of user acceptance testing, this would be a valid concern.
Users are allowed to use 0kg weights. However, it does not really make much sense to do bench press with 0kg weights.
Although the user guide states that 0kg is meant for exercises with no weights, one still has to consider the type of exercise that the user is doing for it to make sense.
Perhaps consider having a list of common exercises to compare user input and the list, then adjust the min weight requirement where applicable.