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Thanks OP for sharing my website! Please be gentle with me. This is a project website that I built out of frustration a few years ago. I know there are things

by w0ts0n 6y ago

Thanks OP for sharing my website! Please be gentle with me. This is a project website that I built out of frustration a few years ago. I know there are things that need improving and a lot of things that could be adjusted. I work full time at Brave Software (brave.com) and simply don't have time to put a ton of effort into MuslceWiki. I do however have a big backlog of videos to add and I've slowly been working on an app. We have also re-drawn the homepage images and my long term plan is to move away from gifs to webm or MP4. FWIW, for some reason I was unable to log into my HN account. I made a new one, but the posts seem to be limited. So looks like I'll be replying in the morning.

spondyl 6y ago
It's pretty handy! Out of curiosity, are the people demonstrating friends of yours? It seems like compiling all of that footage would have taken quite some time.
- w0ts0n 6y ago
  Yes! I've used various friends over the years but now I'm using friends who are professionals working in a gym in LA: https://www.instagram.com/wilfredofitness/ https://www.instagram.com/wilfredofitness/ https://www.instagram.com/krickithodges/ https://www.instagram.com/krickithodges/ You are right though, it is very time consuming process and sometimes we get it wrong and have to go back and re-film. I have a pretty big backlog to edit and upload. It's a slow going process. Seeing this on HN has motivated me to do some extra work this weekend.
  - spondyl 6y ago
    While I go to the gym myself, I pay for a PT and I'm also relatively new in the grand scheme of things to the fitness world. Similarly, I rarely do self directed gym stuff so this site is actually really handy as far as what areas might be handy to focus on and just generally building an index of things to try out so thanks!
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manesioz 6y ago
Lovely website! One thing I noticed is that https://musclewiki.com/Dumbbells/Male/Hamstrings/ https://musclewiki.com/Dumbbells/Male/Hamstrings/ returns nothing. Maybe add some dumbell romanian deadlifts? Great stuff tho :)
- w0ts0n 6y ago
  Yeah. Dumbbell section was added a few months ago. I have about 150 videos left to edit, upload and write instructions for. All of the dumbbell exercises being about 50 of those videos.
  - rchoudhury 6y ago
    Awesome website! Love the radio button for equipment type, and the demo videos are really great. I also like that the videos play immediately, but also have links to youtube. Humble suggestion: if you have "slots" where you know you have videos to upload, I wonder if you could say as much rather than show the 404 page. That way, you can simply click through to other "equipment levels" without breaking the sequence.
npunt 6y ago
Thanks for building this! I love that this exists, and want to encourage you to continue. Like a lot of people working in tech, I've had persistent neck and posture issues for years. I'd love to see you expand to cover those, focusing on the many smaller muscles in the neck like SCM/Scalenes/Occipitals/etc. Another great area to expand is 'click where you have pain' and it would recommend certain stretches, weights, trigger points, etc. There are common pain referral patterns that most people do not know about and I imagine that would be very helpful for people who don't have easy access to physical therapy or even feel they are candidates for it. After casually mentioning my neck issues to people over the years, I've found so many people open up about persistent pain they have but that they're not addressing because it hasn't reached a bad enough point. I think that's an ideal audience to target with online resources like musclewiki.
- dehrmann 6y ago
  > Like a lot of people working in tech, I've had persistent neck and posture issues for years. I'd love to see you expand to cover those, focusing on the many smaller muscles in the neck like SCM/Scalenes/Occipitals/etc. I did some things on-and-off for posture (mostly rear delts), but what I did consistently, and think helped the most, was heavy (for me) deadlifts. I'm curious: how many pullups can you do? I ask because they take a lot of lat strength, and your lats do a lot of work holding up your back.
  - npunt 6y ago
    Unfortunately I'm limited in what I can do overhead due to an old neck injury, so pullups are out. Most upper body stuff causes me pain so I have to be extra careful dialing in the right movements, weight, and reps. I've heard deadlifts are one of the best exercises, I can't wait to get back to PT and get a personal trainer so I can do those correctly. I doubt I've done enough with lats.
    - ketzo 6y ago
      Lateral pulls are basically sitting pullups, and tend to be a lot easier on the neck. They're associated with a big ol' piece of gym equipment, which might be.... tough to get your hands on right now, but definitely look into them. You're right, though, that deadlifts (performed correctly and safely!) are pretty amazing for your back in general.
ericdykstra 6y ago
I like the feature of being able to select what equipment you have available. Lots of us lost access to a gym with COVID and don't have the ability to put a power rack in our abode. A simple concept, but great execution! PS: Do you know where I can download more RAM for my computer? It's been a bit laggy recently.
- wizzwizz4 6y ago
  You're looking for https://downloadmoreram.com https://downloadmoreram.com.
smitec 6y ago
Great website and kudos for making it. Noting you have limited spare time feel free to ignore but: I would love to be able to select a collection of exercises and see a visual of which muscle groups I do and don't have covered in the chosen exercises. Perhaps with some suggestions on exercises to cover those that are missing.
- w0ts0n 6y ago
  A problem I have with the site is I want to keep it EXTREMELY simple. How do you envision this working, with the current UI/UX?
  - smitec 6y ago
    Yeah, very reasonable question. I suppose a somewhat simple version could be to add exercises to a 'cart' and then change the colour muscle groups on the home page based on cart contents. Would then be pretty easy to click back and forth and colour in the desired groups. If I could then look at my cart when I'm happy I have good coverage that would probably be enough for my needs of 'does my workout plan have any blind spots'.
  - ninju 6y ago
    Maybe support multi-select option by holding Shift or Ctrl key?
riyakhanna1983 6y ago
Thanks for making this website! It will be very useful to a number of us.
jessepinkman 6y ago
add obliques
atum47 6y ago
Thank you for building the this. I'll make sure to share with my friends. I'm also starting to workout again so this would be helpful.
omosubi 6y ago
Great site - I love seeing easy to understand sites related to working out. One thing to note - the exercises shown for the forearms only target the flexors, and none of them cover the extensors, which must be worked out if you are to have healthy forearms and hands. A common problem if you only work the flexors is golfer's elbow, which I am just recovering from now. for the sake of lifters, climbers, golfers, pitchers, and plenty of others, please include these.
- w0ts0n 6y ago
  Interesting. I believe there are some exercises listed that work extensors. Reverse curl and wrist extensions: https://musclewiki.com/Exercises/Male/Forearms/2 https://musclewiki.com/Exercises/Male/Forearms/2 Perhaps I need to bring one of those to the first page.
tyingq 6y ago
"Please be gentle with me." That guidance wasn't needed, really. It's refreshingly free of trendy design, and straightforward to use. And other things, like the ads not being in the way of the content. I'm sure you've got a list you're working on, but what's there looks great. One minor suggestion...there are some paths that lead you to a "muscle not found" page, like this: https://musclewiki.com/Barbell/Female/Calves/ https://musclewiki.com/Barbell/Female/Calves/. Some way of preventing landing there in the first place would probably be more intuitive. Like a popped hint when you hover over a calf if Female/Barbell is pre-selected. Or some semi-transparent overlay to suggest Calves can't be selected, etc.
- jader201 6y ago
  If OP has lurked HN before, chances are they’ve seen how HN can respond to other sites. Even if it wasn’t necessary, can understand why they might think it was. And not that all responses aren’t well intended, but they can sometimes come across a bit tough, especially if someone wasn’t looking for feedback.
  - thekyle 6y ago
    Apparently they work at Brave. HN likes to tear into Brave whenever it comes up, so I can see how they might have that impression.
- w0ts0n 6y ago
  Thanks for the suggestion. I actually should have this solved soon. I have a backlog of videos to edit that will populate the missing pages.
- utopcell 6y ago
  +1. This is a highly functional, distraction-free site.
- HenryBemis 6y ago
  Extra/complimentary suggestion to that: when the mouse cursor hovers over a muscle group further to the 'red patch', have a pop-up small text box with name and brief description of the specific red-ed part. It would be fun/educating for the regular folk (like me, who doesn't know each muscle group and/or their names) to just 'browse' the human body and see the name of that muscle group and what it does. Edit: on the parts that are not a muscle group (e.g. face, "love-handles", feer/hands, 'throat', etc.) maybe paint them grey so they are visibly distinguishable from the 'muscle groups'. I was veri curious to see if the 'love-handles' region has any use apart storing fat.
FriendWithMoon 6y ago
Having to enter email to get the results of the fasting guide is unacceptable. It should be illegal to waste people's time like that, and it should be required to say something along the lines of "to get your results, you will need to enter an email address" prior to wasting precious time. I closed the site after.
- ThisIsTheWay 6y ago
  Quit being dramatic, you "wasted" a few "precious" minutes on a great website that is being shared free of charge.
- mlN90 6y ago
  What fasting guide? The only tools i see there is Calorie / Macro / One Rep Max calculators along with exercise guides. Did you click on an ad? Also here is a quick fasting guide: "Eat less." You can word it however you want, you can spread those two words out on a 6 months program and fill-in with a bunch of newage-bullshit but it IS that simple.
- w0ts0n 6y ago
  We don't have a fasting guide on the site. I think you clicked an ad.
dehrmann 6y ago
What's up with only having first-party js/css/image resources on your site? /s
- Triv888 6y ago
  that's the future, hopefully.
- w0ts0n 6y ago
  Just prefer to keep the site with no 3rd party dependancies. If something goes wrong/down I know where to look.
  - SecurityLagoon 6y ago
    I appreciate it! This was the first website I have used for a while that I didn't need to adjust my uMatrix to get full functionality. Do you have a way of donating? I feel bad that ads are being blocked.
dehrmann 6y ago
I'm curious: what was the reason for splitting out things for men and women?
- barbarbar 6y ago
  I don't know. But it could be that a female would be more inspired by seeing a female doing something hard. Whereas seeing a really pumped up dude doing it would be... well this guy is also on something. So I think it is a very good idea.
  - w0ts0n 6y ago
    This is the feedback I've had from a lot of people. My wife being one of them.
- floatingatoll 6y ago
  Answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25854942 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25854942
rramadass 6y ago
Great idea and very useful website! Thank You. One suggestion: A lot of folks don't go to gym, lack access to exercise equipment etc. It might be worthwhile to have a section on how to work out the specific muscles without any equipment and in minimal space using only bodyweight/calisthenics; eg. Yoga stretches, deep squats, pushups(both Normal and Hindu) etc.
- bobsmooth 6y ago
  There are tabs for stretching and bodyweight exercises for each muscle.
  - mod 6y ago
    If you mean like this: https://musclewiki.com/Bodyweight/Male/Forearms/ https://musclewiki.com/Bodyweight/Male/Forearms/ You can see how there is still equipment required.
    - TheGallopedHigh 6y ago
      Forearms are quite difficult to do without equipment. Unless you include something that could be easily procured at home.
      - ummonk 6y ago
        No you can easily do them at home by clasping your hands together and making your arms work against each other. It just isn’t as efficient as compound exercises (e.g. pull-ups that also exercise your back).
        gitrog 6y ago
        Decline push-ups also work on your forearms.
        TheGallopedHigh 6y ago
        That sounds very inefficient. Here’s something that gets good results quickly. Tie a string/top to a filled 2L bottle. Attach the other end of the rope to the center of a short wooden pole. Wind up the bottle. Wind down the bottle. Repeat ad infinitum. Quick and easy.
srik 6y ago
Wow, this might be the most relevant and genuinely useful website I've come across in a while. I really appreciate the "stretches" option for those of us who don't have access to gym equipment. Thank you.
- darkwinx 6y ago
  also check the "Bodyweight" option.
floatingatoll 6y ago
Drop an email to the admins at <hn@ycombinator.com> and they may be able to help, if they haven’t already, since you’re a content creator responding to a post about your own site.
- w0ts0n 6y ago
  They fixed it for me. Thanks atoll. Hope you are well <3
  - floatingatoll 6y ago
    More than could possibly be imagined :) Not very good at proactive distance social still, but if you’d like to chat, reach out any time (fox2 can reconnect us, and any of my old details still work too.)
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imutemyteam 6y ago
bruh, you missed the most important muscle... Or wait, is it a bone? hmmm
mode0x13h 6y ago
Thank you for this!
- w0ts0n 6y ago
  <3
8589934591 6y ago
Just FYI. Not sure if it's just me, site says it's down. Error 521 Ray ID: 614ef97bce51190c • 2021-01-21 06:28:20 UTC Web server is down
- w0ts0n 6y ago
  Should be good now? Spinning up more servers as we speak. HN hug of death :)
  - 8589934591 6y ago
    Works now thanks. Yup HN hug of death lol. Someone should write about it. The influx of HN users and how they had to scale things up. Etc. It'd be a useful read for beginners.
  - thegagne 6y ago
    Have you considered moving the whole thing to Cloudflare Workers? It would make it hug-of-death proof. Edit: Your site is awesome, I'm going to start using it.
scottru 6y ago
just wanted you to know that I found your site about a year ago (somehow?) and have always loved it. Nice work!
nathias 6y ago
I like it. I would embrace your humanoid muscle map fully, and try to show it with every exercise with colored in all the muscles you are working on. For example Incline Barbell Bench Press and Barbell Bench Press are both for chests muscles primarily, but work with different muscle groups.
fudged71 6y ago
Are you able to share the traffic and revenue this project generates?
ttn 6y ago
Lovely website, thanks a million for making this! Just a quick bug report: At https://musclewiki.com/Exercises/Male/Traps_middle/ https://musclewiki.com/Exercises/Male/Traps_middle/ when you want to go next page it directs you https://musclewiki.com/Exercises/Male/Traps%20(mid-back)/2 https://musclewiki.com/Exercises/Male/Traps%20(mid-back)/2 which causes 404. It should direct to https://musclewiki.com/Exercises/Male/Traps_middle/2 https://musclewiki.com/Exercises/Male/Traps_middle/2 . I assume root cause of this is that you are getting next page link from title.
- w0ts0n 6y ago
  Wow nice find. I'll fix this soon.
  - ttn 6y ago
    Your design is very clear, I wish more websites were like this, thanks again!
Teelo 6y ago
Great site. Such a great idea. Gonna check it out more when I have time. I know everything there is to know about shoulder/rotator cuff muscle exercises due to my shoulder dislocation injuries over the years, so I'll gladly contribute with that if some exercises are missing.
dhikapow 6y ago
Great stuff you made here. Can't tell you the amount of time I've spent trying to find the right exercises for this/that muscle group
Khaine 6y ago
I just wanted to say this looks like a fantastic resource. Thank you so much for developing it.
bugBunny 6y ago
is this you in the videos?? btw great work, I will be using this in gym for sure.
poutrathor 6y ago
Hello, I saw you use Google traduction for providing non English support. Please drop the feature. It made non sense for French right off the bat : > There is far more to the trapezius muscle than meets the eye. The traps are not just the muscle that sits on top of your shoulders. > Il y a bien plus dans le muscle trapèze qu'il n'y paraît. Les pièges ne sont pas seulement le muscle qui repose sur vos épaules. You could also use more medical terms all the time since Google autotrad seems to handle them better Could the best be asking the community for translation proofing ?
k_sze 6y ago
It would be nice to add benchmarks to the exercises. E.g. how many push ups in a row (in a specific timespan, at a certain pace) a healthy person is expected to be able to do.
- dspillett 6y ago
  I suspect there is no really useful number to give for most such benchmarks due to the massive variance within "healthy people" an in fact how "healthy" is defined. Look how many different figures/calculations are banded around for questions like "how many calories do I burn running X distance or Y minutes" for instance.
  - k_sze 6y ago
    Could we start off by sourcing numbers from various physical training programs and fitness exams? e.g. policemen, firefighters, the military, professional athletes.
mywacaday 6y ago
FYI McAfee Web Gateway is flagging it as a parked domain, a lot of corporate users won't be able to access it.
Thomasmack 6y ago
Nice project and I love it for planning my workout. Any plans to monetize it?
throwewey 6y ago
Hey w0ts0n, I remember working on the initial version of this :)) Glad to see it's still around!
tkgally 6y ago
Great site! I daydreamed about creating a similar site about ten years ago, after I started exercising seriously, but I never went beyond daydreaming. Congratulations on actually doing it. When I was daydreaming, I thought of demonstrating the exercises with human-like animated figures rather than videos of real people. I had the impression that the well-built, athlete-type people who often appear in exercise videos can discourage beginners and people with body-image issues. I may have been wrong, though. In any case, your videos look good to me now.
FirstLvR 6y ago
your site gonna explode well done! back to benches
syx 6y ago
Thank you for building it! I have been using it since last April during lockdown when gyms were closed!
joshspankit 6y ago
Echoing other comments: this is a great clean site and I’d like to see smaller muscles as well. But my main comment is why not turn it in to an actual wiki? Maybe even put it on github and let people submit pull requests. With a submitter agreement you’d still be free to make an app and profit, but it might help remove you as the bottleneck
aasasd 6y ago
> out of frustration Seems to be a major driver for small-scale innovation in computing-related fields.
trident5000 6y ago
Nice job with this.
webinvest 6y ago
Fantastic website! My GF is using it right now at the gym. Just wanted to report a bug; when you click on “more” in the female abdominals, you get a server 500 response. Anyways, really good job and very user friendly.
rammy1234 6y ago
Thanks for building this. Interestingly simple and Amazingly useful. Never found a user intuitive way to access muscle group and find stretches. Please don't change the home page.
boringg 6y ago
Pretty slick well done!
mewse-hn 6y ago
Two points of feedback in case it helps: I'm recovering from a hand injury and doing grip exercises to strengthen the forearm muscles responsible for finger movement - when I clicked forearm it listed wrist exercises rather than grip strength. Maybe clicking the hands can lead to grip strength exercises? Since the purpose seems for workouts rather than rehab work, I wanted to check if it had rotator cuff exercises similar to this: https://fdlc.com.au/sites/default/files/imce/Strengthening%20shoulders.png https://fdlc.com.au/sites/default/files/imce/Strengthening%2... But the shoulder blades aren't clickable.
- beaconstudios 6y ago
  to second this, I have a recurring shoulder tendonitis from weak scapular mobility so I would also hope to find similar exercises. The site is a great concept though!
- inakarmacoma 6y ago
  Third this, re: rotator cuff rehab being a likely necessity, as with detailed hand exercises for typists. :)
tenaciousDaniel 6y ago
This is really, really awesome. Well done. There are sooo many things you could do with this idea. I could totally see this becoming a huge thing, keep working on it! If you're looking to move away from videos entirely, it would be really cool to see the models in 3D, and then when you select a muscle, the 3D figure animates and shows you the exercises. Then the videos could be supplemental. That would be so neat lol.
pluc 6y ago
What is it with Brave staffers and workout websites? https://random.training/ https://random.training/ (from @bcrypt!)
sharadov 6y ago
Your website is a great resource and fantastic!I've been using it for a year!! I was looking to replace all the movements I did in the gym but at home with kettlebells ( after covid, I lost access to the gym).
ravroid 6y ago
You made a great thing. It's so simple and effective. I've read a handful of workout plans, considered hiring personal trainers, and sifted through YouTube videos without ever being able to establish a good workout routine. This is EXACTLY what I needed. Thanks for creating this.
NicoJuicy 6y ago
Just an idea for the photomarking to add a small white border around the logo so the site of origin is more clear
mitjak 6y ago
Very appreciative of the site. thank you :). reminds me of exrx.net but much easier to navigate
- shock 6y ago
  ExRx is much more extensive, it covers nutrition, pharmacology, etc.
jelliclesfarm 6y ago
Thank you for creating this. Due to lack of access to my gym, I am moving exclusively to kettlebell routines at home. It’s new to me and this is very helpful. Only category missing is yoga.
Diesel555 6y ago
It's in my favorites. Great resource, thanks!
privacyonsec 6y ago
what about opensourcing the project and let people contribute it will help growing the wiki :)
handedness 6y ago
Echoing the much-deserved praise you've received here, this is very nicely done. It embodies everything that's right with the web, and none of what isn't. One small request: a persistent dark mode toggle would be a nice addition.

by w0ts0n 6y ago

spondyl 6y ago

It's pretty handy! Out of curiosity, are the people demonstrating friends of yours? It seems like compiling all of that footage would have taken quite some time.

w0ts0n 6y ago
Yes! I've used various friends over the years but now I'm using friends who are professionals working in a gym in LA: https://www.instagram.com/wilfredofitness/ https://www.instagram.com/wilfredofitness/ https://www.instagram.com/krickithodges/ https://www.instagram.com/krickithodges/ You are right though, it is very time consuming process and sometimes we get it wrong and have to go back and re-film. I have a pretty big backlog to edit and upload. It's a slow going process. Seeing this on HN has motivated me to do some extra work this weekend.
- spondyl 6y ago
  While I go to the gym myself, I pay for a PT and I'm also relatively new in the grand scheme of things to the fitness world. Similarly, I rarely do self directed gym stuff so this site is actually really handy as far as what areas might be handy to focus on and just generally building an index of things to try out so thanks!
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manesioz 6y ago

Lovely website! One thing I noticed is that https://musclewiki.com/Dumbbells/Male/Hamstrings/ https://musclewiki.com/Dumbbells/Male/Hamstrings/ returns nothing. Maybe add some dumbell romanian deadlifts? Great stuff tho :)

w0ts0n 6y ago
Yeah. Dumbbell section was added a few months ago. I have about 150 videos left to edit, upload and write instructions for. All of the dumbbell exercises being about 50 of those videos.
- rchoudhury 6y ago
  Awesome website! Love the radio button for equipment type, and the demo videos are really great. I also like that the videos play immediately, but also have links to youtube. Humble suggestion: if you have "slots" where you know you have videos to upload, I wonder if you could say as much rather than show the 404 page. That way, you can simply click through to other "equipment levels" without breaking the sequence.

npunt 6y ago

Thanks for building this! I love that this exists, and want to encourage you to continue. Like a lot of people working in tech, I've had persistent neck and posture issues for years. I'd love to see you expand to cover those, focusing on the many smaller muscles in the neck like SCM/Scalenes/Occipitals/etc. Another great area to expand is 'click where you have pain' and it would recommend certain stretches, weights, trigger points, etc. There are common pain referral patterns that most people do not know about and I imagine that would be very helpful for people who don't have easy access to physical therapy or even feel they are candidates for it. After casually mentioning my neck issues to people over the years, I've found so many people open up about persistent pain they have but that they're not addressing because it hasn't reached a bad enough point. I think that's an ideal audience to target with online resources like musclewiki.

dehrmann 6y ago
> Like a lot of people working in tech, I've had persistent neck and posture issues for years. I'd love to see you expand to cover those, focusing on the many smaller muscles in the neck like SCM/Scalenes/Occipitals/etc. I did some things on-and-off for posture (mostly rear delts), but what I did consistently, and think helped the most, was heavy (for me) deadlifts. I'm curious: how many pullups can you do? I ask because they take a lot of lat strength, and your lats do a lot of work holding up your back.
- npunt 6y ago
  Unfortunately I'm limited in what I can do overhead due to an old neck injury, so pullups are out. Most upper body stuff causes me pain so I have to be extra careful dialing in the right movements, weight, and reps. I've heard deadlifts are one of the best exercises, I can't wait to get back to PT and get a personal trainer so I can do those correctly. I doubt I've done enough with lats.
  - ketzo 6y ago
    Lateral pulls are basically sitting pullups, and tend to be a lot easier on the neck. They're associated with a big ol' piece of gym equipment, which might be.... tough to get your hands on right now, but definitely look into them. You're right, though, that deadlifts (performed correctly and safely!) are pretty amazing for your back in general.

ericdykstra 6y ago

I like the feature of being able to select what equipment you have available. Lots of us lost access to a gym with COVID and don't have the ability to put a power rack in our abode. A simple concept, but great execution! PS: Do you know where I can download more RAM for my computer? It's been a bit laggy recently.

wizzwizz4 6y ago
You're looking for https://downloadmoreram.com https://downloadmoreram.com.

smitec 6y ago

Great website and kudos for making it. Noting you have limited spare time feel free to ignore but: I would love to be able to select a collection of exercises and see a visual of which muscle groups I do and don't have covered in the chosen exercises. Perhaps with some suggestions on exercises to cover those that are missing.

w0ts0n 6y ago
A problem I have with the site is I want to keep it EXTREMELY simple. How do you envision this working, with the current UI/UX?
- smitec 6y ago
  Yeah, very reasonable question. I suppose a somewhat simple version could be to add exercises to a 'cart' and then change the colour muscle groups on the home page based on cart contents. Would then be pretty easy to click back and forth and colour in the desired groups. If I could then look at my cart when I'm happy I have good coverage that would probably be enough for my needs of 'does my workout plan have any blind spots'.
- ninju 6y ago
  Maybe support multi-select option by holding Shift or Ctrl key?

riyakhanna1983 6y ago

Thanks for making this website! It will be very useful to a number of us.

jessepinkman 6y ago

add obliques

atum47 6y ago

Thank you for building the this. I'll make sure to share with my friends. I'm also starting to workout again so this would be helpful.

omosubi 6y ago

Great site - I love seeing easy to understand sites related to working out. One thing to note - the exercises shown for the forearms only target the flexors, and none of them cover the extensors, which must be worked out if you are to have healthy forearms and hands. A common problem if you only work the flexors is golfer's elbow, which I am just recovering from now. for the sake of lifters, climbers, golfers, pitchers, and plenty of others, please include these.

w0ts0n 6y ago
Interesting. I believe there are some exercises listed that work extensors. Reverse curl and wrist extensions: https://musclewiki.com/Exercises/Male/Forearms/2 https://musclewiki.com/Exercises/Male/Forearms/2 Perhaps I need to bring one of those to the first page.

tyingq 6y ago

"Please be gentle with me." That guidance wasn't needed, really. It's refreshingly free of trendy design, and straightforward to use. And other things, like the ads not being in the way of the content. I'm sure you've got a list you're working on, but what's there looks great. One minor suggestion...there are some paths that lead you to a "muscle not found" page, like this: https://musclewiki.com/Barbell/Female/Calves/ https://musclewiki.com/Barbell/Female/Calves/. Some way of preventing landing there in the first place would probably be more intuitive. Like a popped hint when you hover over a calf if Female/Barbell is pre-selected. Or some semi-transparent overlay to suggest Calves can't be selected, etc.

jader201 6y ago
If OP has lurked HN before, chances are they’ve seen how HN can respond to other sites. Even if it wasn’t necessary, can understand why they might think it was. And not that all responses aren’t well intended, but they can sometimes come across a bit tough, especially if someone wasn’t looking for feedback.
- thekyle 6y ago
  Apparently they work at Brave. HN likes to tear into Brave whenever it comes up, so I can see how they might have that impression.
w0ts0n 6y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. I actually should have this solved soon. I have a backlog of videos to edit that will populate the missing pages.
utopcell 6y ago
+1. This is a highly functional, distraction-free site.
HenryBemis 6y ago
Extra/complimentary suggestion to that: when the mouse cursor hovers over a muscle group further to the 'red patch', have a pop-up small text box with name and brief description of the specific red-ed part. It would be fun/educating for the regular folk (like me, who doesn't know each muscle group and/or their names) to just 'browse' the human body and see the name of that muscle group and what it does. Edit: on the parts that are not a muscle group (e.g. face, "love-handles", feer/hands, 'throat', etc.) maybe paint them grey so they are visibly distinguishable from the 'muscle groups'. I was veri curious to see if the 'love-handles' region has any use apart storing fat.

FriendWithMoon 6y ago

Having to enter email to get the results of the fasting guide is unacceptable. It should be illegal to waste people's time like that, and it should be required to say something along the lines of "to get your results, you will need to enter an email address" prior to wasting precious time. I closed the site after.

ThisIsTheWay 6y ago
Quit being dramatic, you "wasted" a few "precious" minutes on a great website that is being shared free of charge.
mlN90 6y ago
What fasting guide? The only tools i see there is Calorie / Macro / One Rep Max calculators along with exercise guides. Did you click on an ad? Also here is a quick fasting guide: "Eat less." You can word it however you want, you can spread those two words out on a 6 months program and fill-in with a bunch of newage-bullshit but it IS that simple.
w0ts0n 6y ago
We don't have a fasting guide on the site. I think you clicked an ad.

dehrmann 6y ago

What's up with only having first-party js/css/image resources on your site? /s

Triv888 6y ago
that's the future, hopefully.
w0ts0n 6y ago
Just prefer to keep the site with no 3rd party dependancies. If something goes wrong/down I know where to look.
- SecurityLagoon 6y ago
  I appreciate it! This was the first website I have used for a while that I didn't need to adjust my uMatrix to get full functionality. Do you have a way of donating? I feel bad that ads are being blocked.

dehrmann 6y ago

I'm curious: what was the reason for splitting out things for men and women?

barbarbar 6y ago
I don't know. But it could be that a female would be more inspired by seeing a female doing something hard. Whereas seeing a really pumped up dude doing it would be... well this guy is also on something. So I think it is a very good idea.
- w0ts0n 6y ago
  This is the feedback I've had from a lot of people. My wife being one of them.
floatingatoll 6y ago
Answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25854942 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25854942

rramadass 6y ago

Great idea and very useful website! Thank You. One suggestion: A lot of folks don't go to gym, lack access to exercise equipment etc. It might be worthwhile to have a section on how to work out the specific muscles without any equipment and in minimal space using only bodyweight/calisthenics; eg. Yoga stretches, deep squats, pushups(both Normal and Hindu) etc.

bobsmooth 6y ago
There are tabs for stretching and bodyweight exercises for each muscle.
- mod 6y ago
  If you mean like this: https://musclewiki.com/Bodyweight/Male/Forearms/ https://musclewiki.com/Bodyweight/Male/Forearms/ You can see how there is still equipment required.
  - TheGallopedHigh 6y ago
    Forearms are quite difficult to do without equipment. Unless you include something that could be easily procured at home.
    - ummonk 6y ago
      No you can easily do them at home by clasping your hands together and making your arms work against each other. It just isn’t as efficient as compound exercises (e.g. pull-ups that also exercise your back).
      - gitrog 6y ago
        Decline push-ups also work on your forearms.
      - TheGallopedHigh 6y ago
        That sounds very inefficient. Here’s something that gets good results quickly. Tie a string/top to a filled 2L bottle. Attach the other end of the rope to the center of a short wooden pole. Wind up the bottle. Wind down the bottle. Repeat ad infinitum. Quick and easy.

srik 6y ago

Wow, this might be the most relevant and genuinely useful website I've come across in a while. I really appreciate the "stretches" option for those of us who don't have access to gym equipment. Thank you.

darkwinx 6y ago
also check the "Bodyweight" option.

floatingatoll 6y ago

Drop an email to the admins at <hn@ycombinator.com> and they may be able to help, if they haven’t already, since you’re a content creator responding to a post about your own site.

w0ts0n 6y ago
They fixed it for me. Thanks atoll. Hope you are well <3
- floatingatoll 6y ago
  More than could possibly be imagined :) Not very good at proactive distance social still, but if you’d like to chat, reach out any time (fox2 can reconnect us, and any of my old details still work too.)

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imutemyteam 6y ago

bruh, you missed the most important muscle... Or wait, is it a bone? hmmm

mode0x13h 6y ago

Thank you for this!

w0ts0n 6y ago
<3

8589934591 6y ago

Just FYI. Not sure if it's just me, site says it's down. Error 521 Ray ID: 614ef97bce51190c • 2021-01-21 06:28:20 UTC Web server is down

w0ts0n 6y ago
Should be good now? Spinning up more servers as we speak. HN hug of death :)
- 8589934591 6y ago
  Works now thanks. Yup HN hug of death lol. Someone should write about it. The influx of HN users and how they had to scale things up. Etc. It'd be a useful read for beginners.
- thegagne 6y ago
  Have you considered moving the whole thing to Cloudflare Workers? It would make it hug-of-death proof. Edit: Your site is awesome, I'm going to start using it.

scottru 6y ago

just wanted you to know that I found your site about a year ago (somehow?) and have always loved it. Nice work!

nathias 6y ago

I like it. I would embrace your humanoid muscle map fully, and try to show it with every exercise with colored in all the muscles you are working on. For example Incline Barbell Bench Press and Barbell Bench Press are both for chests muscles primarily, but work with different muscle groups.

fudged71 6y ago

Are you able to share the traffic and revenue this project generates?

ttn 6y ago

Lovely website, thanks a million for making this! Just a quick bug report: At https://musclewiki.com/Exercises/Male/Traps_middle/ https://musclewiki.com/Exercises/Male/Traps_middle/ when you want to go next page it directs you https://musclewiki.com/Exercises/Male/Traps%20(mid-back)/2 https://musclewiki.com/Exercises/Male/Traps%20(mid-back)/2 which causes 404. It should direct to https://musclewiki.com/Exercises/Male/Traps_middle/2 https://musclewiki.com/Exercises/Male/Traps_middle/2 . I assume root cause of this is that you are getting next page link from title.

w0ts0n 6y ago
Wow nice find. I'll fix this soon.
- ttn 6y ago
  Your design is very clear, I wish more websites were like this, thanks again!

Teelo 6y ago

Great site. Such a great idea. Gonna check it out more when I have time. I know everything there is to know about shoulder/rotator cuff muscle exercises due to my shoulder dislocation injuries over the years, so I'll gladly contribute with that if some exercises are missing.

dhikapow 6y ago

Great stuff you made here. Can't tell you the amount of time I've spent trying to find the right exercises for this/that muscle group

Khaine 6y ago

I just wanted to say this looks like a fantastic resource. Thank you so much for developing it.

bugBunny 6y ago

is this you in the videos?? btw great work, I will be using this in gym for sure.

poutrathor 6y ago

Hello, I saw you use Google traduction for providing non English support. Please drop the feature. It made non sense for French right off the bat : > There is far more to the trapezius muscle than meets the eye. The traps are not just the muscle that sits on top of your shoulders. > Il y a bien plus dans le muscle trapèze qu'il n'y paraît. Les pièges ne sont pas seulement le muscle qui repose sur vos épaules. You could also use more medical terms all the time since Google autotrad seems to handle them better Could the best be asking the community for translation proofing ?

k_sze 6y ago

It would be nice to add benchmarks to the exercises. E.g. how many push ups in a row (in a specific timespan, at a certain pace) a healthy person is expected to be able to do.

dspillett 6y ago
I suspect there is no really useful number to give for most such benchmarks due to the massive variance within "healthy people" an in fact how "healthy" is defined. Look how many different figures/calculations are banded around for questions like "how many calories do I burn running X distance or Y minutes" for instance.
- k_sze 6y ago
  Could we start off by sourcing numbers from various physical training programs and fitness exams? e.g. policemen, firefighters, the military, professional athletes.

mywacaday 6y ago

FYI McAfee Web Gateway is flagging it as a parked domain, a lot of corporate users won't be able to access it.

Thomasmack 6y ago

Nice project and I love it for planning my workout. Any plans to monetize it?

throwewey 6y ago

Hey w0ts0n, I remember working on the initial version of this :)) Glad to see it's still around!

tkgally 6y ago

Great site! I daydreamed about creating a similar site about ten years ago, after I started exercising seriously, but I never went beyond daydreaming. Congratulations on actually doing it. When I was daydreaming, I thought of demonstrating the exercises with human-like animated figures rather than videos of real people. I had the impression that the well-built, athlete-type people who often appear in exercise videos can discourage beginners and people with body-image issues. I may have been wrong, though. In any case, your videos look good to me now.

FirstLvR 6y ago

your site gonna explode well done! back to benches

syx 6y ago

Thank you for building it! I have been using it since last April during lockdown when gyms were closed!

joshspankit 6y ago

Echoing other comments: this is a great clean site and I’d like to see smaller muscles as well. But my main comment is why not turn it in to an actual wiki? Maybe even put it on github and let people submit pull requests. With a submitter agreement you’d still be free to make an app and profit, but it might help remove you as the bottleneck

aasasd 6y ago

> out of frustration Seems to be a major driver for small-scale innovation in computing-related fields.

trident5000 6y ago

Nice job with this.

webinvest 6y ago

Fantastic website! My GF is using it right now at the gym. Just wanted to report a bug; when you click on “more” in the female abdominals, you get a server 500 response. Anyways, really good job and very user friendly.

rammy1234 6y ago

Thanks for building this. Interestingly simple and Amazingly useful. Never found a user intuitive way to access muscle group and find stretches. Please don't change the home page.

boringg 6y ago

Pretty slick well done!

mewse-hn 6y ago

Two points of feedback in case it helps: I'm recovering from a hand injury and doing grip exercises to strengthen the forearm muscles responsible for finger movement - when I clicked forearm it listed wrist exercises rather than grip strength. Maybe clicking the hands can lead to grip strength exercises? Since the purpose seems for workouts rather than rehab work, I wanted to check if it had rotator cuff exercises similar to this: https://fdlc.com.au/sites/default/files/imce/Strengthening%20shoulders.png https://fdlc.com.au/sites/default/files/imce/Strengthening%2... But the shoulder blades aren't clickable.

beaconstudios 6y ago
to second this, I have a recurring shoulder tendonitis from weak scapular mobility so I would also hope to find similar exercises. The site is a great concept though!
inakarmacoma 6y ago
Third this, re: rotator cuff rehab being a likely necessity, as with detailed hand exercises for typists. :)

tenaciousDaniel 6y ago

This is really, really awesome. Well done. There are sooo many things you could do with this idea. I could totally see this becoming a huge thing, keep working on it! If you're looking to move away from videos entirely, it would be really cool to see the models in 3D, and then when you select a muscle, the 3D figure animates and shows you the exercises. Then the videos could be supplemental. That would be so neat lol.

pluc 6y ago

What is it with Brave staffers and workout websites? https://random.training/ https://random.training/ (from @bcrypt!)

sharadov 6y ago

Your website is a great resource and fantastic!I've been using it for a year!! I was looking to replace all the movements I did in the gym but at home with kettlebells ( after covid, I lost access to the gym).

ravroid 6y ago

You made a great thing. It's so simple and effective. I've read a handful of workout plans, considered hiring personal trainers, and sifted through YouTube videos without ever being able to establish a good workout routine. This is EXACTLY what I needed. Thanks for creating this.

NicoJuicy 6y ago

Just an idea for the photomarking to add a small white border around the logo so the site of origin is more clear

mitjak 6y ago

Very appreciative of the site. thank you :). reminds me of exrx.net but much easier to navigate

shock 6y ago
ExRx is much more extensive, it covers nutrition, pharmacology, etc.

jelliclesfarm 6y ago

Thank you for creating this. Due to lack of access to my gym, I am moving exclusively to kettlebell routines at home. It’s new to me and this is very helpful. Only category missing is yoga.

Diesel555 6y ago

It's in my favorites. Great resource, thanks!

privacyonsec 6y ago

what about opensourcing the project and let people contribute it will help growing the wiki :)

handedness 6y ago

Echoing the much-deserved praise you've received here, this is very nicely done. It embodies everything that's right with the web, and none of what isn't. One small request: a persistent dark mode toggle would be a nice addition.