I go to gym regularly and have for decades so I have experience of all kinds of bookkeeping. During 2022-2024 I tried many different fitness apps (for Android) but they all failed to do the single thing I was interested in: log my workout. Instead ALL of the apps (I tried about a dozen before giving up) either wanted to sell me things, suggest me workouts, pretend that they know more about my body than I do (I'm over 50 and I know my body quite well by now) and basically just annoyed they hell out of me instead of being a working logbook.
All I want from a fitness app is to specify my A/B-day routines ONCE and then during gym I just wanna hit some button which means "I completed this set plz give me next one", but I also need a way to mark if I couldn't do a full set or if for one reason or another I had to do the set with lower weights (again, I'm over 50 and trust my body more than my routine). Also would be nice to have a comment box so I could write down the reason why I had to lower weights "shoulder was acting up again".
Anyway, it's 2025 now and I use a paper notebook and a pen and I don't even carry my phone to gym. Like another reply here mentioned I still have phone with me because the gym door only opens with an app (which is incredibly annoying). Paper notebook fulfulls all of my requirements above: I can mark sets with weight, I can cross over a number if I failed to complete a set, I can write down a lower number if my body can't handle the set weight that day, and I can always write down an explanation what was wrong.
Basically this is what I need (imaginary numbers for example):
Day A
Squat 200 200 200 200 180
Bench 100 100 100 - - (left shoulder)
...
Day B
Deadlift 50 100 150 200 250
OHP 70 70 70 60 - (left shoulder)
...
The downside of paper notebook is that I have to write down a number after every set, I would prefer for an app just to give me a button for "Done" and then something else for exceptions. The reason I need to OK every set is once you get into higher weights it becomes really hard to keep count as blood from your brain goes to muscles and you feel kinda lightheaded.
EDIT: When I come home from gym I now have to copy my numbers from paper to computer so I can do graphs and stats and that's a bit annoying. If I was using an app I would need to have a way to automatically submit the workout results to MY OWN SYSTEM/API - forcing me to subscribe and use someone elses database is totally out of the question.
You are low on testosterone, not surprising as most males above 45 years are. You should go to a private hospital and get your testo levels measured, and with that paper you can _try_ to get TRT (Testosterone Replacement Therapy) from a doctor but if the doctors in Denmark are anything like in Finland you are not going to get the prescription...
Not sure what the legal situation regarding steroids (testo is a steroid) is in Denmark but if you can't get a legal prescription I recommend getting testo from alternative sources. Somewhere between 150-200mg per week should give you a very noticeable improvement.
Getting your testo levels to normal means you'll have loads more stamina to do physical activity and it also helps to grow your muscles back to the size they were before. Ever wonder why old men have a different posture than younger ones? Lack of testosterone. Same reason why older men have thin arms and legs but bulging belly - muscle mass is reduced but fat remains.
A new notation by itself won't be useful.
It's the tool stack, the eco system around it that matters.
That's why I'm building beyond that the format itself.
I'm building the schema, the validator, the scripting and query language around it.
I find it easier to just use Slack for random notifications that I need, even if they have nothing to do with Slack itself. Just create a new Slack channel just for those notifications, use Slack API to send them out (simple curl is enough) and make sure all guilty parties subscribe to that channel. To make your phone go beeb boob boob add @channel to your notification message.
The good thing about Slack messages is that they already work on desktop, web browser, Android and iPhone. They're also free - you're not paying per message like you would with SMS.
How so? I had two 11" Airs and the 12" Macbook and haven't bought a Macbook since they stopped manufacturing small laptops. Right now I'm carrying 10gen iPad but it's not the same.
Finland would like to disagree - high legal guns per capita, relatively very high illegal guns per capita and zero (0) mass shootings per year. Yeah, we kill each other with knives, axes, shutguns etc, but it's pretty much always people killing people they know, not random mass shootings.
The data seems to suggest that the number of deaths and mass shootings sort of tracks with the number of guns, and that Finland isn't particularly better off "per gun".
In the US it’s a multi-faceted issue of mental health, lack of effective enforcement of existing laws, acceptance and promotion of gun and gang culture in music and movies, and the political utility of a continuing problem. Democrats in particular need ongoing crisis and a large dependent population to stay in power - this is why they so visibly pander to the social movement of the moment. They need the “gun issue” to stay present and emotional, they have zero solutions on iffer.
Crying “Ban assault weapons!” and then being completely unwilling to define it or describe how they’d enforce it effectively just lays bare their cowardice and intellectual weakness.
It doesn't have to be purely about reactive measures to mental health problems. It can also be that a better social safety net means less people need mental health support to begin with.
Here in Helsinki, Finland I see way more Chinese EVs than I see western EVs combined. Now if you ask a random Helsinkian (is that a word?) about this they'd say I was wrong, but what they don't realize is most of the public transportation here runs on Chinese EV busses. And you see way more of those local blue busses than you see other EVs.
You hired developers, not DevOps people. I assume you hired them to develop code, not manage AWS/GCP/Vercel/younameit, right? They are simply doing what you hired them to do.
I have a globally very rare last name and also own the .com for it, registered it in late 90's so that all of us would get their firstname@lastname.com email addresses. During the last 25 years exactly one (1) other than me ever wanted one and that was my younger son (he did use it exclusively).
So even if you think getting firstname@lastname.com is cool, just like I did/still do, I doubt most of your family really cares.
Also, Gmail/GSuite. Done. If it costs then good, you're not the product.
There's only ~25 of us and we used to get together for an extended family dinner once or twice a year - and I would just casually tell others that if they want their firstname@lastname.com email just ask me.
No one ever did.
Also I tried the portal thing - I put a simple webpage at https://lastname.com/ where it basically said to ask me for email accounts or web space... again, no one ever asked, not once. Not even my mother, she's been using the same Hotmail/Outlook/O365/whateveritsthisweek account since late 90s and doesn't want to move anywhere.
Interesting. I wonder if in my case, being more forceful would work.
As in, gather their email addresses, create forwards with first@lastname.com, and give them biz cards, or DMs, with those addresses. Once you are able to share first@last.com as your email, it's hard to go back.
I think that's kinda how Stripe got sign-ups back in the day, according to HN lore. Just grab their laptop, and write the 3 lines of code. :)
I just want my fam to have the power of saying "my email is first@last." Maybe Reply As is not important. Just the to: alias would do.
I could probably manually scrape FB and make the aliases,[0] send them messages asking for their current email address, create the @lastname.com fwd, and meet a bunch more family that way.
Thank you for helping me get to this point.
Cheers!
[0] Namecheap allows 100 email fwds/domain for free. That's what I will do manually.
All I want from a fitness app is to specify my A/B-day routines ONCE and then during gym I just wanna hit some button which means "I completed this set plz give me next one", but I also need a way to mark if I couldn't do a full set or if for one reason or another I had to do the set with lower weights (again, I'm over 50 and trust my body more than my routine). Also would be nice to have a comment box so I could write down the reason why I had to lower weights "shoulder was acting up again".
Anyway, it's 2025 now and I use a paper notebook and a pen and I don't even carry my phone to gym. Like another reply here mentioned I still have phone with me because the gym door only opens with an app (which is incredibly annoying). Paper notebook fulfulls all of my requirements above: I can mark sets with weight, I can cross over a number if I failed to complete a set, I can write down a lower number if my body can't handle the set weight that day, and I can always write down an explanation what was wrong.
Basically this is what I need (imaginary numbers for example):
The downside of paper notebook is that I have to write down a number after every set, I would prefer for an app just to give me a button for "Done" and then something else for exceptions. The reason I need to OK every set is once you get into higher weights it becomes really hard to keep count as blood from your brain goes to muscles and you feel kinda lightheaded.EDIT: When I come home from gym I now have to copy my numbers from paper to computer so I can do graphs and stats and that's a bit annoying. If I was using an app I would need to have a way to automatically submit the workout results to MY OWN SYSTEM/API - forcing me to subscribe and use someone elses database is totally out of the question.