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I think the difference is that the OP (and I) are into resistance activities (barbell sports) and you are more into cardio and aerobic exercises. As a powerlif

I think the difference is that the OP (and I) are into resistance activities (barbell sports) and you are more into cardio and aerobic exercises. As a powerlifter, I completely agree with the OP. When I first got into resistance training, as a techie, my inclination was to try all the apps and gadgets. 3 years later and I realised that the old timers had it right, the best tool for resistance training is a pencil and a notebook, maybe backed up by a spreadsheet to track long-term progress.

tylerscott 6y ago
If you ever want to digitize your training log, I’d love for you to try out my markup language: https://www.traindown.com https://www.traindown.com
- silviogutierrez 6y ago
  Neat!
- leethargo 6y ago
  Do you have a parser for it, to extract data for progress charts?
- dmichulke 6y ago
  Nice. As a potential user I have two questions. 1. As a consumer, I would like to have such an editor / viewer for my phone, is there something alike for traindown? 2. Functionality-wise, wouldn't a nice editor/viewer app necessarily be a subset of spreadsheet-like app and isn't traindown then competing against such a more general app? (Not that I know a single FOSS spreadsheet app, so I'm speaking hypothetically)
woutr_be 6y ago
> 3 years later and I realised that the old timers had it right, the best tool for resistance training is a pencil and a notebook, maybe backed up by a spreadsheet to track long-term progress. I think the issue here is that you never really stuck to a single app and used it long term. I was in the same boat, I pretty much tried all the apps, bought an Apple Watch, but nothing really satisfied my needs. In the end, I just stuck to one app (Strong), and kept using it. It's not perfect, and there are things that I'm missing, but in the end, it always me to track all my lifts and shows me the progression. It's indeed something that I could quite easily do with a notebook (although I won't have the fancy graphs), but I already have my phone with me to listen to music, so might as well use it to track.
blaser-waffle 6y ago
+1 for the notebook. I don't even bother writing how many sets and reps, just the exercise, highest weight, and any notes, e.g. "got it up but almost too much". Along with rough tracking of calories -- I ignore things like green veggies and coffee -- and weight and I'm golden.

tylerscott 6y ago

If you ever want to digitize your training log, I’d love for you to try out my markup language: https://www.traindown.com https://www.traindown.com

silviogutierrez 6y ago
Neat!
leethargo 6y ago
Do you have a parser for it, to extract data for progress charts?
dmichulke 6y ago
Nice. As a potential user I have two questions. 1. As a consumer, I would like to have such an editor / viewer for my phone, is there something alike for traindown? 2. Functionality-wise, wouldn't a nice editor/viewer app necessarily be a subset of spreadsheet-like app and isn't traindown then competing against such a more general app? (Not that I know a single FOSS spreadsheet app, so I'm speaking hypothetically)

woutr_be 6y ago

> 3 years later and I realised that the old timers had it right, the best tool for resistance training is a pencil and a notebook, maybe backed up by a spreadsheet to track long-term progress. I think the issue here is that you never really stuck to a single app and used it long term. I was in the same boat, I pretty much tried all the apps, bought an Apple Watch, but nothing really satisfied my needs. In the end, I just stuck to one app (Strong), and kept using it. It's not perfect, and there are things that I'm missing, but in the end, it always me to track all my lifts and shows me the progression. It's indeed something that I could quite easily do with a notebook (although I won't have the fancy graphs), but I already have my phone with me to listen to music, so might as well use it to track.

blaser-waffle 6y ago

+1 for the notebook. I don't even bother writing how many sets and reps, just the exercise, highest weight, and any notes, e.g. "got it up but almost too much". Along with rough tracking of calories -- I ignore things like green veggies and coffee -- and weight and I'm golden.