Show HN: MuscleWiki Workout Generator – Generate unique workouts

I like it already!<p>I would love to be able to set how much <i>time</i> I have available for workouts too though. Like, if I want a whole body workout but only have 10 minutes, I know I&#x27;m going to get less done, but maybe fewer reps&#x2F;higher weight.

I wonder if there&#x27;s something up with some of the calibration?<p>I shied away from picking &quot;beginner&quot; and opted for &quot;novice&quot; instead because beginner listed being able to do 1-3 pushups as a guideline, and I can&#x27;t.<p>But then when it generated a &quot;novice&quot; workout for me, it had me doing 2 sets of 6-10 pushups. I...can&#x27;t? I could do 6-10 counter-height pushups probably, but I think the novice level might need to be tweaked to keep the individual exercises easier than it currently is.

Ty from MuscleWiki here! If anyone is interested in knowing how&#x2F;why we choose different rep ranges and fatigue levels for Men&#x2F;Woman or wants to understand our choices, let me know.. happy to answer any questions.

This is awesome.<p>After wanting to build up my shoulders, I went to YouTube and looked for exercises. The utter madness I&#x27;ve been served searching for this was staggering. Overhyped bodybuilders promoting pills, fitness influencers, equipment I didn&#x27;t have, but they knew the best shop for it, etc...<p>This is clean, straight, I love it.<p>Starting my workout NOW.

In what sense is your workout collection a wiki and how complete is it meant to be?<p>The bodyweight workouts, for instance, are sparse and rudimentary and the generator comes up with a pretty disjoint and insufficient program at all intensity levels.<p>That&#x27;s not to say that you&#x27;re obliged to replicate Overcoming Gravity or TRX or something, but it&#x27;s unclear why bodyweight even appears as an option in the genrator at this point, let alone at levels beyond beginner.<p>If it&#x27;s not really an expansive wiki and is instead just a collection of your own high-production-value workout descriptions (which seem well made) for contemporary weight training, it makes sense that there&#x27;s only a narrow &quot;happy path&quot; through the generator -- maybe the presentation should be more focused on that happy path and less overbroad?

This did really well picking out an easy to follow program for strength for my 12 year old. Been doing a lot of research lately on how to train kids for sports and this seemed to really give a modern response on sets&#x2F;reps for this age and strength goal. Well done!

I am not a gym rat, but I do enjoy going if someone else figures out what I am going to do. I get bored if I have to figure out a routine myself. This could be an answer to that. Will try it!

After inputting your information, why is there a countdown before the results are shown? Surely filtering through a few hundred exercises (being generous here) by muscle group doesn&#x27;t take 5 seconds? Is a delay being artificially added (eg. [1])?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2017&#x2F;02&#x2F;why-some-apps-use-fake-progress-bars&#x2F;517233&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2017&#x2F;02&#x2F;why-s...</a>

Found a bug: On the &quot;Fitness Level&quot; step, if you click the &quot;info&quot; icon, and then close it by pressing escape, you end up moving &#x2F;backwards&#x2F; in the process (back to the &quot;Fitness Goal&quot; step).<p>The same thing also can happen if you double-click the &quot;info&quot; icon on the &quot;Fitness Level&quot; step, or if you close the popup (via mouse) and then click any of the buttons.

Very cool! It&#x27;d be nice to be able to choose muscle by name. I&#x27;m interested in tennis-focused strength training and most guides list the muscles to focus on by name. My knowledge of human anatomy is too limited to be able to locate those muscles on a map of a body. If I could search for muscles by name, it&#x27;d be easier to indicate which muscles I wanted to focus on.

Really awesome and well executed. I&#x27;ll be using this for sure.<p>One thing I don&#x27;t get is that you click a muscle group and sometimes it turns red and sometimes pink. What is the difference? And then I click on the opposite muscle on the back of the body and the front disappears. A bit of twiddling to get it right. Maybe a small animated intro with how to would help here.

I am using this for a long time and I find it very useful. This app has been very very helpful for me. I love it! Keep up the good work.

Very cool! Something I&#x27;ve been thinking about prototyping is essentially this but with a presentation &#x2F; &#x27;workout mode&#x27; view. Something like the full screen modals you have with demos of the moves, the details of set, etc. Bonus if I can shout &#x27;Next&#x27; at it from across my basement and have it go to the next move.

The muscle group importance weighting seems off. I created a barbell workout for &quot;Chest, Lats, Traps (mid-back), Traps, Forearms, Calves&quot; on beginner and it includes no lifts for pecs, just accessory work like wrist curls and calf raises. Is this because bench press is considered an intermediate lift?

very nice. I&#x27;ve recently grown fond of an analogy with programs and the command line. People seem to view health and fitness more from a cli pov while you really need a whole program, scheduled events, interrupts, exceptions, and logs. Let there be logs!

Cool app. For the dumbbell exercises could it recommend weight?

Fascinating!<p>&gt; anyone with a lick of python can generate millions of workouts<p>Are you offering an API for the workout generator?<p>Any plans to generate workout plans for a week&#x2F;month and incorporate rest days?

I would love something that could give me exercises to strengthen my knees. Didn&#x27;t see an option to click that in the setup.

Looks cool, curious why it&#x27;s called &quot;wiki&quot; though

I like it. Good work.

The intrusive ads made me leave immediately.

This is really cool, and in particular it&#x27;s helpful that it lets you select what tools you have available for your workout. I tried creating a bodyweight only routine and all the exercises look well picked to me.<p>Just my .02 - I would prefer if the dummy you click on to select which muscle groups you wanna train to be gender neutral, or have a separate selection for all genders, if that is relevant for the exercises provided.

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