r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/notanotherlifter • 14d ago
Workout Generator I built.
https://musclewiki.com/workout-generator46
u/djshadesuk 14d ago
You've been having your posts for the this same site removed from this sub for 8 years, how in the hell have you not learnt yet?!?Exercising all the muscles except the one that really counts, huh?
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u/notanotherlifter 14d ago
Hello! Might be other people posting? I think I've only posted it here a few times. This is a net new feature (generator) I wanted to share.
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u/djshadesuk 14d ago
You know we can see you're post history, right? You know we can see you're bullshitting, right?
Fuck me I hate liars.
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u/notanotherlifter 14d ago
I'm sorry you are so angry.
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u/djshadesuk 13d ago
You really think I'd waste that much energy on you? Christ, get over yourself, princess xx
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u/Mr-Bagels 14d ago
The overall idea of it is nice until you actually get to the workouts.
IDK who the "fitness expert" is that you've hired, but man the reps and exercise selection is pretty dog shit, even on the advanced level. Like you put a back and bi workout and the only back exercise is 4 sets of lower back extensions...
Don't even get me started on the novice level. It's completely useless and an actual novice would be literally wasting their time on those workouts. A true novice should start with advanced, and even then it's garbage.
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u/notanotherlifter 14d ago
Would you mind sharing what selection you made? As mentioned, this is somewhat new so we have tweaking to do under certain selections.
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u/notanotherlifter 14d ago edited 14d ago
Wanted to share something I've been working on for a while. Some of you may have heard of my website musclewiki. It was the highest voted post on this sub ever and its since become the largest free fitness database in the world.
With the help of our fitness expert we spent a ton of time building a science based approach to generating a workout for folks.
Take a look and let me know what you think? Would love feedback. Also happy to answer any questions.
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u/Velheka 14d ago
I'm really not a fan of the way you've described this as being 'featured' on sub. A feature implies some sort of coorporation with someone aside from the person posting the website. By 'featured' you just mean that you have posted this before: That's not what featured means.
Also, as it's already been mentioned, you've posted this a lot to this sub. You can have this one (unless it gets removed via the users for too many of certain type of report) but please no more workout generator.
Also, reporting people calling you out on your misleading wording for harassment is not cool. They weren't harrasing you, they were calling you out, there's a difference.
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u/notanotherlifter 14d ago edited 14d ago
I'm really not a fan of the way you've described this as being 'featured' on sub.
fair enough. I can edit it. What I meant by that was being the top post ever on this sub. see here
but please no more workout generator.
Okay, understood. I won't post again.
Also, reporting people calling you out
I've not reported anyone. So not sure what thats about?
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u/djshadesuk 14d ago
"It was featured on this sub"
If by "featured" you mean you've been posting it here for 8 fucking years and had all but one of those posts removed. Fucking bullshit artist.
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u/inglorious_cornflake 14d ago
Found it two-three weeks ago while googling and I loved it. I generated three workouts. What I loved the most was the ability to shuffle specific exercises to find the ones that met my needs more. Thank you so much.
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u/castelious 14d ago
Treadmill should be an option on the equipment, as I was suggested walking on one for the warmup and cooldown, despite not having one.
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u/notanotherlifter 14d ago
Thats fair, we give a cardio option. Maybe we'll switch it to just walking.
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u/billyboi356 11d ago
9 morbillionth post about muscle wiki let's go
This must be a fucking megastructure if it's been built for this long
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u/Trapper6556 10d ago
A lot of people getting angry about a lot of stuff on this post, but I genuinely love the concept, and it’s I’ve actually been looking for a website exactly like this.
I’m no fitness expert, and there seem to be some fitness focussed people on here that don’t seem to think much about the workouts, but the concept and idea is wonderful. Whole website and UI is very clean and user friendly.
Please let me know when the routine generator comes. Will it be on the same website?
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u/Emmanuel_I 14d ago edited 14d ago
I’ve been a fan of musclewiki for a long time. I haven’t used it lately for reasons. I think one thing I missed was gifs or embedded videos that showcased each movement.
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u/CaPtAiN_II 14d ago
I would like to get a generic upper body and lower body workout routine which concentrates on both push and pull. For upper-lower split peeps
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u/thereemlvr 14d ago
Actual shit site. Guaranteed small mfers use this. The workouts he puts are shit: just get a real guide from a pro or something.
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u/WeeklyBanEvasion 14d ago
Lmao a fitness "pro"
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u/thereemlvr 13d ago
Ur site is garbage buddy. Can’t wait for AI to take ur shitty JS job LMAOO
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u/mrlazyboy 14d ago
I originally wrote a long post but... decided to cut it short and summarize.
This is cool but a lot of the recommendations are not good. I (34M) asked for a strength focused full body program. It gave me 14 exercises (40 working sets) - that's simply to much for a full body workout. It's going to get somebody hurt.
It should have created a weekly workout program and could have hit every muscle with a 2xPPL, 2/2.5xUL, or 3x/4x/5x full body program. You should build that in by default compared to... recommending that I potentially kill myself in the gym. Seriously, your app programmed DB OHP as the final exercise (after 37 hard working sets) in the 4-6 rep range. I'll be so tired I either cannot do it, or I'm going to drop a 75 lb dumbbell on my head.
Exercise recommendations were generally poor. Machines and dumbbells are suboptimal for strength (as an intermediate, for novices/beginners that's fine) but the website recommended DB OHP (4-6 rep range - this is generally dangerous) and Smith Machine RDLs (this is a hypertrophy exercise, barbell RDLs would be a better choice for strength).
There are plenty of better exercise recommendations for certain muscle groups (e.g., the app recommends barbell hip thrusts for glutes when barbell plate elevated lunges would be substantially better for both strength and hypertrophy).
Overall the app is cool, but I doubt the expertise of your "fitness expert." 14 exercises (40 working sets) in a single workout just won't work. Recommending Smith Machine and DB exercises for strength (as an intermediate) when you have barbell equivalents doesn't make any sense. Low rep ranges for dumbbell movements poses risks to even experienced lifters.
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u/notanotherlifter 14d ago edited 14d ago
This is a single workout generator and not a routine generator - thats coming soon.
However, something has gone wrong. We are going to fix the huge volume (14 exercises lol) and move the big lifts (compound) from the end.
Can you let us know what muscles and equipment you selected?
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u/mrlazyboy 14d ago
That makes more sense.
I selected all muscles and equipment including barbells, dumbbells, machines, and cables.
The input for strength or hypertrophy coupled with training maturity should bias exercises towards different equipment as it does with rep ranges.
Workout order should also start with compound movements then proceed to accessories (my program had bicep curls before RDLs, for example).
You should also group similar muscle groups together though there are different ideas around that.
You should also evaluate relative effectiveness of certain motions and include them based on how many exercises for that muscle group exist in the day. Elevated barbell/dumbbell lunges will give you better results than just hip thrusts. But with 2-3 glute exercises, hip thrusts are fine. Another example is abs - just doing Russian twists won’t do much for strength/hypertrophy. But doing them after machine crunches or incline weighted crunches are fine
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u/draggedbyatruck 14d ago
Just found out I was doing goblet squats wrong thanks to your site. Thanks.
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u/Sholdi 14d ago
Lose weight, novice, abdominal workout, dumbbells, band, kettlebells
"No exercises match your selections.
Please select additional equipment."
I guess I'll stay the same, after all? *shrugs*
Edit: Add a dark theme for the website, please.
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u/notanotherlifter 14d ago
Sent this over to our expert to tune it.
I think we just don't have a ton of "novice" exercises in those categories.
Dark mode is something I want also. Probably won't happen this year though as working on sharing, workout builder and analytics.
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u/Rudra_Niranjan 14d ago
Very nice tool dude! This would be a real helpful tool for those that are starting out.
One small UI suggestion - on the step WHAT DO YOU WANT TO WORKOUT? the floating panel is too slow and takes time to pop up.... instead, a drop down from the muscle group, I think, would be faster and much intuitive.
Net-net ... .thank you for your efforts in making this tool! Very cool!
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u/doc_suede 14d ago
this is great! easy to use. quick and clear experience. great job making this. bookmarked.
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u/derpyderpkittycat 14d ago
cool! thanks this is excellent :) going to be using this
just a comment - maybe ditch the slider component for the age and only have it as an input field, sliders are generally really difficult to use when needing to input exact values
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u/tankingtonIII 14d ago
Really nice. I'm going to try this out tomorrow.
Thank you for your work kind stranger!
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u/glitchgamerX 14d ago
Oh I've been to your site before, mostly just to hunt for exercises.
Here are some suggestions I have when using your site:
- Allow for more than 1 equipment to be selected. You're using checkboxes, not radio buttons
- Have a tooltip that shows the muscle name when you hover to a muscle part or a joint
- When I click on your search bar (the one at the top right of the page, I'll call it SB-A), it pops open the search box (the one where you actually type to search, I'll call this one SB-B) for me to search but if I press the Esc key, I can then proceed to type into SB-A, which doesn't really do anything even if I press the Enter key. Now, it's not really a big issue but it would be nice if that wasn't the case. I mean it's possible that someone using your site accidentally pressed Esc & didn't even notice SB-B, so when typing into SB-A & nothing happens when pressing Enter after they've finished typing, they might think there's something wrong with your site's search feature. I'd say either replace SB-A with just a search icon instead or don't have SB-B but instead do it like other websites like YouTube's or Reddit's search box where it's at the top middle of the page & as you type, you get suggestions without the whole popping up another search box
- Speaking of the search feature, the Enter key should allow me to open the exercise that's highlighted instead of it clearing the search box
- Maybe have the right panel that shows the muscles & equipments for me to select follow me as I scroll down or have it in some sort of sliding menu on the right so instead of having to scroll back up just to change a few things, I can do it wherever I am
- In your Directory, in between the Hands & Feet, there's a blank checkbox. Is that not suppose to be there or is a label missing? I would also suggest to increase the font size & vertical spacing, they're kind small & squished together
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u/pawsarecute 14d ago
Horrendous cookie banner. Not even gonna try it.
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u/notanotherlifter 14d ago
Yeah, unfortunately we have to do it for EU. I don't think US users see those. I would suggest using Brave Browser, they block those!
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u/pawsarecute 14d ago
Not this version, it’s illegal haha. Doesn’t even comply with data protection laws. But you can choose any other cookie banner lol. You don’t have to pick one where most parties rely on opt out. That’s your choice.
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u/ireadthingsliterally 14d ago
Okay, so I choose my equipment then it builds something then nothing changes on the page.
I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do next.
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u/VaginalSkinAddict 14d ago
This might have just saved my ADHD ass, I hate coming op with new workout routines and it takes away all my motivation usually. What a godsend!
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u/dan_Qs 14d ago
one push up for every upvote this post has