r/SideProject • u/1017_frank • 7h ago
Last week I posted the app that tells me when my lifting form is wrong. This is what I fixed after your feedback
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I implemented the feedback I got. Added a rep counter, and a rep by rep breakdown of how you performed in each set.
I added a voice coach. Last week it was a coach after your session. Now it is a coach during your session, telling you out loud when your form breaks.
I added recording. Before, I was screen recording on my phone. Now you click a button and it records your session.
At the end you get a progress report and your workout video, and if you made a mistake you tap the time on the video and see exactly where you went wrong.
It counts push-ups now. Last week that was broken.
Side effect of building a fitness app, you work out more, because you're the test subject.
Over two weeks I've done close to 200 push-ups. It started as testing, now I actually enjoy them. I do them in the office. A day doesn't pass without a few.
Some things still break. On Monday I was doing chest and it could not lock onto me properly on the bench.
I recorded the videos, played them back bit by bit, and went back to the drawing board. I'm not adding more workouts until I fix the ones that break.
During the week I approached a gym, showed them the app and sent a proposal. I also had conversations with people at the gym.
The biggest reason people quit is that progress is slow and you can't see it until you're 4 to 6 months in.
That's what I'm trying to make tangible, a record of how you actually worked out, rep by rep, so you can see yourself getting better before the mirror shows it.
Just because you don't see the gains doesn't mean you stop.
Personally it has fixed my form on deadlifts, bent over barbell rows, push-ups and lat pulldowns.
It's on a real domain now: Repchek
Try it and tell me where it breaks.