Blood Flow Restriction Sets
Considering the amount of studies on BFR training, it would be rather interesting to see if an exercise could be setup as a BFR set...
Meaning DR Muscle takes 20-25% of your 1 RM max.. the 1st set is 30 reps... then 30 seconds rest.. 3 more sets of 15 with 30 seconds inbetween.
I suppose this could be done today just by setting up a custom exercise like Dumbbell Curls - BFR and just manually putting in a weight and using the timer between sets.
But what I wouldn't want is for DR Muscle to start seeing such improvements off the Dumbbell Curl - BFR sets to increase the weight. I'd like it to take my regular Dumbbell Curls and extrapolate a 20% use from that. Or else I risk going pretty heavy with high reps and that would defeat the purpose.
Marc, thanks for your sharp feedback. Looking forward to implementing that suggestion.
In the meantime, you guessed it: you can already create custom exercises that behave that way inside Dr. Muscle. Here's how:
Tap Exercise (bottom bar)
Tap Exercises
Tap the big plus button (bottom right)
Name your exercise > e.g. Dumbbell Curl - BFR
Is this a bodyweight exercise? > No
How hard should the exercise be? > Easy
...
That "easy" setting is the key. With that, your weights will only go up if you tell the app "I could have done 7+ more" at the end of your first work set.
Hope that all makes sense!
Add more body parts (quads, hamstrings, glutes, calves)
Legs exercises separated by quads, hamstrings, glutes, calves etc. The same for other body parts.
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Generate workout on the fly based on equipment available
It would be wonderful if a feature like this had some sort of travel-mode where it does its best to intelligently give you a challenging workout on equipment you've never used before and likely won't again. Generally if I'm doing a workout at a hotel, I'll likely never see that hotel again and won't have time to build up a smart profile for the equipment available at this one particular location.
Improve the calories burnt calculator to incorporate work volume performed in the time allocated
Reps, type of workout, rest period, exercises performed all to be taken in to account when calorie consumption is calculated.
Improve web-app
Couple of suggestions for improvements for the web-app:
1. Downloading csv data - it's great that we can do this, but even though the download comes in .csv, it still needs manual adjustments to make the data workable. I always get a "header" for each date in one line, following the individual stats for each day in subsequent line. This doesn't make sense for csv. It would be better if ALL data was in every line. So Date/Time/Exercise/Weight/Reps etc all in every line.
Also, please add the year. Right now, it makes it hard to compare multi-year data, as there is no info for the year and I have to add it manually.
2. Since max weight and work sets are both shown on the same graph with the same scale, the graph is "zoomed out" quite a bit, and all curves look pretty much flat, even if you have a 3% improvement in max weight. I would like to see either to separate graphs (or just one graph with max weight, "work sets" doesn't mean much, as it's always 5 if you look at an individual exercise), or one graph with two different scales on the left hand and the right hand side.
Add Ability to Manage Exercises Online (in browser)
It would be great to manage exercises online, i.e. creating new ones, editing, renaming, etc. I find that I want different versions depending on which gym I'm in because machines are different, and even the "same" machines aren't the same regarding the weight marked on the stack. I know it can be done in the app but it would be easier to make lots of changes in a web browser.
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Make personal statistics data available via API
I'd love to be able to extract my training data via an API, for use in a presentation layer, that I could use to see more in-depth, custom graphs over time. I know there's the web-app at the moment but my thinking is that, by providing this data via API, the community could develop some open-source dashboards (yes, I'm volunteering) that would mean the core dev team could focus on the app.
Exercise Order Options
For the last six months, you could pick any exercise from the workout list to perform next, in any order. If Leg Press was next on the list, and someone was using the machine, you simple chose another exercise. When you saved that exercise, you could then pick Leg Press, or something else if the equipment was still busy. I really like the look of the new interface, the fact that reps and weights are editable while you do the exercise, etc. BUT, I don't think the next exercise on the list should be "automatically started" when you save the previous exercise. It only takes one touch to select any exercise, but takes a lot of effort to "back out" and do a different exercise if it is already "pre-loaded" for you. If a lot of people like the new "auto start", maybe there could be an "option" or "switch" in Setup where you can choose if you prefer "Auto Start Next Exercise in list" or "Choose the next exercise yourself"? (like it worked before)
Long press and swipe to re order exercises
Would be great if we can have a long press and swipe on an exercise to change its order faster, on the order of exercises page as it's very tedious to move them with the arrows.
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