Please Criticize my Fitness Site that Stores Workout Programs

What is it? What does it do? Why do I need it?<p>Having a meta title would be a good start to describing the site.

Single biggest thing you did right: Got an absolute minimum product up fast, then asked potential customers to criticize.<p>Things you could improve: As others said, not clear what this is. Explain it in 10 words or fewer, make them big, bold, and centered. The interface needs to improve...there are too many steps in creation / editing (why must I create the wrong name first, then edit it to correct value?), there's no way to create / modify multiple elements in one step, and it's not clear how many steps there are, so I quit out partway through.<p>Good luck with it.

Neat idea. Could be useful. A couple of thoughts...<p>1) I agree with everyone here about the need to streamline the process. Once screen for entry, etc...<p>2) What does each term mean? I know most of them, but whats an "exercise group?" People who don't work out a lot may not know what other things mean. E.g. reps = repetitions. Put something like "number of repetitions" instead.<p>3) A lot of workout programs are something like: Run a little for 4 weeks. Run a medium amount for 4 weeks. Run a large amount for 4 weeks.<p>If thats how I'm doing things, I don't want to enter 12 weeks worth on info, I want to enter 3 weeks and have each one repeated. I'm not 100% sure how I would redesign the interface, for this, you can try a few things out...<p>4) Why are the numbers in drop downs? To me, thats very unnatural (others might disagree).<p>5) Having it so that anyone can edit and delete a workout could be a bit chaotic.<p>Edit: 6) One more. After I create a workout, the link at the bottom says "Index." What does that mean? A button that says "Done" or something would be more clear.

* Make the delete less prominent and don't depend on Javascript to confirm a delete. If I have it off, my workout plan disappears with a misplaced click.<p>* Answer "Why am I using this tool?"<p>* Style the table so my attention is drawn to the part that is most important, probably the table headers or the "Create program" button<p>* When adding a program, give me some suggestions; muse me. Give me examples like "Run 40 minutes" or "Do 300 pushups (like a boss)"<p>* On the main page, make the program name link to the show action. The word "display" doesn't help me at all, but linking the name shows me what the page I will click on is going to be<p>* Don't ever use a &#60;font&#62; element. It's unnecessary and inflexible. CSS is your friend.<p>I have more, but you're doing a great job so far. It's coming along great!

Clickable link. Thanks for any advice, input, whatever!<p><a href="http://www.funniestlift.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.funniestlift.com</a><p>The reason I bought the name funniestlift was because after doing Olympic Lifting for a year I realized it's really hard and being upbeat about it is a much better outlook. I want to create a fun, free, and valuable website for programs of all types!<p>Hahaha the titles you guys are coming up with are making me laugh! Haha, the reddit meme made its way onto my site!

It looked so amateur. The interface said 'hello world' to me, and then I left within 2 seconds. Put at least some serious effort, and feel you have something of value before getting people to spend time criticizing something for you. I feel a bit insulted, as if being an HN reader puts my time into the value category of someone doing cent-work on Amazon Turk. At the level of work you've put in thus far, keep the round table of 'consultants' to your mother.<p>True story. Remember to add it to your notes.

It is really unclear what the process is when adding workouts. The only button you have is "next", and there aren't any instructions given. Also, it would be better to have all of the inputs available to enter at once when adding a workout, rather than clicking "next" like a wizard might have.

I was thinking this site would be along the lines of <a href="http://startingstrength.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Training_Programs" rel="nofollow">http://startingstrength.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Training_Pro...</a> but flushed out and easy to follow

This looks like a basic rails scaffold using nifty-generators. Also there is no validation on any of the forms.

not clear what the goal is. If the goal is to track workouts there are lots of better programs you should look at before expending too much effort on something that isn't significantly different.Hi-Tech trainer comes to mind.