GymBot

Facebook Messenger bot to track your training efforts

2 followers

Facebook Messenger bot to track your training efforts

2 followers

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Launch tags:Health & Fitness•Productivity•Messaging

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IssueFly

Great idea! Congrats! Two thoughts: 1) it would be nice if I can enter data in few steps. After typing excerices bot can ask me for performance parameters (with some defaults as buttons). 2) This idea when messenger is used to track events by the users is such universal. A lot of potenial there!

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10yr ago

GymBot

Maker

@lucakorol I'm working on 1) and for 2) that's why I created it in the first place.

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10yr ago

Startup Toolkit

Hi @sebatian - awesome bot :) But it would be super cool if you create a page with a few "example screenshots" to make it more representative.

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10yr ago

GymBot

Maker

@savchukmark I'll try to do a little video to explain it.

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10yr ago

shows training statistics

Pros:

provides fine trainings routines and tracks them automatically

funny responses if you diss the bot

Cons:

there is no timer for breaks between sets

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9yr ago

Why did you decide to go with a bot and not a simple (small) app?

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10yr ago

GymBot

Maker

@buss_jan Well, as I already mentioned I tried several apps and felt that most of them were a bit too overladen. So, when I started to work out, I was using the notes app to track my progress. This is how I developed the format for entering your exercises. I wanted to create a clean and simple tool with just some basic functions and developing a bot was way quicker that developing an app with a custom UI.

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10yr ago

@sippndipp I completely agree. Gym apps are way too big. I formerly used gymbuddy but it's just so massive and not user-friendly when tracking workouts. Switched back to notes... Love how simple you've kept this. Well done!!

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10yr ago

Does it provide any smartness yet?

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10yr ago

GymBot

Maker

@daniel_schroermeyer It's just a program at the moment, but I want to make it smarter. I'm using the bot for a few weeks now, obviously, and even got some friends to use it too. So, I was able to gather a lot of feedback. The next step to make the bot smarter would be to split up the strict format for the exercises. Currently, you have to obey a certain format (Exercise Weight/Repetitions/Sets). Splitting that up would mean that Gymbot understands that you’re working on a particular machine if you'd just type "Butterfly" and then would ask you how much weight you lifted and how many repetitions you did and so on. The ultimate goal is that Gymbot can make sense out of a variety of different formats, so the handling feels as natural and intuitive as possible.

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10yr ago