When I was working as full time Personal Trainer I was planing on crating an app which would be a great tool of designing and adjusting workout plans for my clients. Idea was there, but no skills in that field to proceed.
The way 2020 has turned out, gave me all the time and facilities to develop a new career path in the field I normally played around as a hobby. Active lifestyle, heavy lifting and being in shape is the lifestyle I love the most, but I was always curios in I.T fields, therefore I treated it as a side hobby. I feel a constant hunger of progression and developing therefore to keep my brain as occupied as my body, I started playing around programming.
And now, I would love to share with YOU, the end product of my latest months work! fro the chaos and just what was only an idea - "Workout Programmer".
It's not the app which I planned to create in past but I think it's also great.
At the beginning of this project my goal was just to test the HTML/CSS/JS functionalities, therefore I decided to create an app which create complete full body workout.
So I decided to create an App which will create complete Full Body Workout.
First feature allows user to choose what kind of workout he's willing to do: STRENGTH or Endurance, and it was manipulate Sets and Reps of exercises.
Then I decided to allow user to choose what exercise he wants to do for a specyfic body area. So I added random exercise buttons on left.
Next step was to choose Intensity and it was dependable from normal sets or supersets.
Let me explain.
When you write training plan every exercises has a Letter next to it which means it order.
Normal Sets:
A) Exercise One
B) Exercise Two
C) Exercise Three
It means you are doing all sets and reps exercise One, and onced finished go to Exercise Two.Then you do all sets and reps exercise Two - > start Exercise Three.
Super Sets:
A1)
A2)
B)
C)
It means that you do exercises A1 and A2 in one Set. Lets say you have to do 3 sets of 10 reps -> you do 10 reps of A1 then 10s rest and do 10 reps of A2 <- It's called superset. Once finished all sets of A1&A2 you will do exercise B).
So by selecting Regular or Supersets you can change the record of order exercises.
For those whos not familiar with exercises I created feature which presents images of exercises. To check how the exercises meant to be completed correctly, user would click on it's name.
Also I added button Super Pump which extends list of exercises by 2. It's adding 2 exercises for ARMS (biceps, triceps.
NExt step was to extend my idea from the beginning, To develop it more.
App won't allow you only to generate workout but also use training routine which was already created.
At this very time, user can only choose chest split routine To get access to it click SPLIT -> Chest.
New button above table appeared -> Random Workout. I prepared 3 effective chest routines.
In future I plan to add more training routines. As I'm big fan of "health training" so there will be workouts to fix back pain, knee pain etc...
Then I focused on design. Which at the beggining was .... Yeahh..I...know ...ok it was just there.
But I added another feature -> button Super Endurance. It adds 2 more exercises slots filled with .... yes endurance exercises.
Once you will decite to perform whole routine with extended Pump and Endurance exercises probably you will "die" that day, but I encourage you to give it a try.
Design ... yeah still not there.
Then I added description of Split-Chest routine. It gives you basic knowledge about specyfic muscle group.
Here we are. App gets new colors. Do you like it ?
Ok so the coloures do look a bit bright. Let our eyes rest and swtich to colorues to a bit darker ones
There is no good training at the gym without girls on gym floor. Main image swapped !
Ok so you have created you own workout and now what ?
New feature - Copy Workout button. Click it -> then paste to google sheets, messenger, email or whereever. Done <3 Sweet.
I know it's not so user friendly (you have to read before click) but I created the Welcome message which explains how to use app.
What is most important to me it's not just a regular clicker app. Every click makes sense here-> every exercise has it proper place. Whole workout is compatible with professional training standards and it's provides complex training routines (full body workouts works on all our joints).
If u are persistent and you reached to this point.
Please give it a go, do some click, Copy workout , paste and give it a try at the gym floor.
Enjoy.
Piotr F.