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Collaborative Exercise Database

Structure the exercise database with exercises submitted by users. Also allowing recommended defaults for prep 0, 1, 2, 3

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Suggested 08 November 2021 by user Spencer

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  • 08 November 2021 Spencer suggested this task

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    Interesting idea

    09 November 2021
  • 09 November 2021 Robert approved this task

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    This would be cool. Would unfortunately require some level of curation to avoid duplicated exercises with slightly different titles, or just plain wrongly entered information. Would be great to have, though.

    17 November 2021
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    I agree. I wonder if one way around it would be to only include exercises that at least a certain number of people have. This would probably require some way to filter things to ignore case sensitivity and phrasing so things like “2ct pause high bar squat”, “high bar squat (2ct pause)”, “2 second pause high bar” and “squat (high bar w/ 2ct pause)” all get categorized as one lift. Without some kind of curation or maybe even requiring people to manually answer if you new exercise matches and old one in the data base I could see this being filled with duplicates or mistakes.

    The recommended defaults for the different preps seems easier. It can be either: - hard coded, i.e. certain lifts are selected by default every time for each prep - randomly picked from certain categories (for example one overload movement, one pause movement, one accommodating resistance movement, and one completely random movement) - just have some simple if-then code lines that give recommendations based on which lifts are weakest or strongest, potentially within certain categories like above - based off of the most common used ones (potentially ignoring user made ones if the data base idea isn’t implemented). This would only be ideal if it also looked not just at what is most common, but what is most effective, specifically for people near your strength level with similar weak and strong variations.

    I ordered them in what I think is increasing more complex but any of those options would be nice in my opinion.

    17 November 2021
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    There might be better ways, but this might actually need something like a hook into github. Collaborate/agree/disagree prioritize warmup vs hypertrophy vs strength....

    19 November 2021
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    Can there be an ability to import an exercise database? I have lots of exercises in the Strongur app that I was using before that I would like to use in Sheiko. I decided to purchase Sheiko one time memebership fee as Strongur was a bit expensive to maintain over the long haul. P.S. I didn’t see this thread before putting in a request mommy’s ago, Sorry

    03 January 2023
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