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Add equipment settings for machines

David Crandall 1 year ago 0

The gym I most often use has about 10 different strength machines and about as many cardio machines. There are no plates, no dumbbells, no benches, no chin-up bar, one very limited "pulley" (a lat pulldown machine with one overhead pulley and no other attachments), and no room for bodyweight exercises or calisthenics. Ideally, I should be able to select the specific types of equipment that are available (e.g. chest press, leg press, etc.) for the app to select exercises for. Right now the app only allows the user to select from 4 very broad categories rather than specific types of equipment, and none of the categories in the app currently even apply to my available equipment.

Once I have manually configured the exercises, the app does seem to do well in weight and rep assignments with appropriate progressions (now that I understand the rest-pause effect). This is half the battle, but I don't feel like I'm getting full use from the app because of the equipment and exercise selection issues.