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Show HN: 7min Workout with Rdio
- mpg33 13y agoPretty awesome
- kken 13y agonice idea, but: - Music is not everyones taste. - Would be interesting to see an overview of the routine first.
- doktrin 13y ago> Would be interesting to see an overview of the routine first. This refers to a specific workout which received a bit of attention in the news and here on HN in recent months : http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/the-scientific-7-minute-workout/ http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/the-scientific-7-mi... Original discussion : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5704485 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5704485
- edraferi 13y agoThanks for the background. This information should be easily accessible from the site.
- michaelstewart 13y agoNice app. With respect to overview, it would be cool if you could click on the dots at the bottom to see the different sections.
- shawn-furyan 13y agoI think that the latter could be addressed (for those familiar with the idea of the workout) by replacing the circles at the bottom with icons representing each workout. An interim hack might be to just crop the workout guy out of the images being used already, and shrinking that down to icon size.
- edraferi 13y agoTried out the app. A few thoughts: - There's no way to tell what exercise is coming next, which breaks up flow. - The music changes sporadically, so you can't trust it to tell you when the exercise is going to change. This is confusing. - There is no audible signal that an exercise is starting or ending, so you have to watch the screen to check the countdown. - The circuit re-starts eventually, but there's no indication of how long the circuit has been running, and no way to stop it. Suggestions: - Add an "on deck" icon, showing which exercise was going to come up next in the sequence. - Change the "rest" message to "rest and prepare for [next exercise]" - The app shouldn't require you to watch the screen, because this distracts from the exercise. Perhaps add audible queues counting down the end of each period. - Add a round / step counter. E.g. "Round 2 Stage 3" for the second time you reach the third exercise in the circuit
- oakaz 13y agoneat ideas! thanks!
- outericky 13y agoInteresting. I had no music till I enabled Flash. I could see this being useful if you get lots of different workouts, maybe a different one everyday? What happens if someone comes out with a 6 min workout :/
- seferphier 13y agowould be awesome if there is a choice to select a collection of music. eg: feat Eminem feat Snoop dogg feat (any genre of music)
- Dewie 13y agoIf I have a browser to use this website, I probably also have some application to play the music that I like.
- oakaz 13y agoyeah but how would you arrange your song plays corresponding to the exercise moods and times ?
- Dewie 13y agoExercise moods? Times? I'm not sure I know what you're talking about. The music I want to listen to while I'm exercising is pretty personal/subjective to me. I'm not the kind of guy to play Eye of The Tiger to "get pumped", or whatever. Or to think "hey those lunges have a real gangster rap mood to them".
- oakaz 13y agohave you given it a try ? :)
- Dewie 13y agoI have seen the first exercise, which gives me rap music. The other exercises didn't give me any music which was a relief, though there were not audio cues as to when the exercises began and ended. I didn't have much of a need to try to work out with it because I've already tried this: http://www.7-min.com/ http://www.7-min.com/
- oakaz 13y agook, apparently Rdio doesn't play you the songs that I arranged... if I have more chance to work on it, I'll build a menu to let people choose songs... for now, you can just fork it; github.com/azer/7min.io
- maxgaudin 13y agoThis is great. love the concept.
- 6cxs2hd6 13y agoVery cool. Small critique: Wish the song transitions were smoother. Regardless, I sat here watching it for 7 minutes, and I already feel healthier.
- WayneDB 13y ago"Well, what happens if someone comes along with a 6 minute abs workout?"
- darwinia 13y agoEpic movie reference. :)
- shire 13y agoVery cool, I will use this.
- thex86 13y agoVery nice. Can you please add a way to skip some workouts?
- maga 13y ago"we have been having it!" - http://www.7-min.com/ http://www.7-min.com/
- luchs 13y ago"Press any key to start" is a pretty useless instruction for tablet users without a keyboard.
- shawn-furyan 13y agoArrow keys didn't work for me, so "Press most any key to start"?
- abcd_f 13y agoI always start cautiously, with Ctrl.
- AndreasFrom 13y agoJust pressing the screen worked for me
- luchs 13y agoI'm on IE10, it probably only listens for WebKit touch events then.
- micampe 13y agoRelated, I remembered IBM but turns out it was actually Compaq that had to explain in their FAQ what key the “Any” key was: http://web.archive.org/web/20070627063024/http://www29.compaq.com/falco/detail.asp?FAQnum=FAQ2859 http://web.archive.org/web/20070627063024/http://www29.compa... and apparently at some point they changed the text to say “Press RETURN to continue”.
- oakaz 13y agoHi Luchs, you can also touch the screen; https://github.com/azer/7min.io/blob/master/lib/view.js#L28 https://github.com/azer/7min.io/blob/master/lib/view.js#L28
- luchs 13y agoAh, this doesn't work on IE10 which doesn't implement the touch*-events. It would be nice if you enabled clicking (or added a listener for "MSPointerUp"[1]/"pointerUp"[2], which however would work for mouse as well). [1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/hh771914(v=vs.85).aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/hh771914(v=vs.85)... [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/pointerevents/#the-pointerup-event http://www.w3.org/TR/pointerevents/#the-pointerup-event
- jefftchan 13y agoVery cool. However, no audio for folks outside U.S. (due to Rdio). Would be nice to have a small warning if this is this case, so users aren't left wondering if something is broken.
- leoplct 13y agoYep, no audio in Europe! Just the first song! Would be great also just some sound to distinguish the start of one workout to the end of it
- michh 13y agordio works just fine in my part of Europe ;)
- esoltys 13y agoRdio is available in quite a few countries outside the U.S. http://www.rdio.com/availability/ http://www.rdio.com/availability/
- arturbelico 13y agoIt worked for me for the first exercise, I'm connected through Germany. After that it stopped.
- halida 13y agoSame issue in China.
- leoplct 13y agoVery cool!! Would be very amazing if the background image is a sea only during the rest
- leoplct 13y agoand a sound that alert you if time is over for that workout
- iknight 13y agoI don't get it.
- oakaz 13y agoHi all, If you would be interested in the development of this, the source code of it: http://github.com/azer/7min.io http://github.com/azer/7min.io
- cuadraman 13y agoit would be a nice highschool homework
- lopatin 13y agoGood job Azer!
- epa 13y agoPlease add a mute button.
- decklin 13y agoIf I press a key it just changes to a giant "3" and then a giant "NaN".
- jacobbudin 13y agoI've been a long-time HN reader (i.e., lurker), but I've just become a commenter to say: Very cool. I'm sweating already. It also really commendable you've made it available open source. One small suggestion: Give a preview of the next work-out in the corner.
- hiroprot 13y agoNice job...you just made me work out for 7 minutes :) That made my day.
- Peeda 13y agoNice, it should however display what the next exercise is during the rest timer countdown so you can get ready for it. For the ab crunches it takes a bit of time to get on the ground if you don't see it coming.
- cgag 13y agoabsurdly loud