Hacker News with Generative AI: Fitness

Self hosted FLOSS fitness/workout tracker (github.com/wger-project)
wger (ˈvɛɡɐ) Workout Manager is a free, open source web application that helps you manage your personal workouts, weight and diet plans and can also be used as a simple gym management utility. It offers a REST API as well, for easy integration with other projects and tools.

Fitness, Open Source, Software, Health, Web Applications

220 points by freemh 8 days ago | 112 comments

Minimum effective dose (winnielim.org)
I am still recovering from my failed root canal (and still have one visit to complete the procedure), so I have been hesitant in taking up my regular exercise again because I don’t want to distract my immune system from my tooth’s healing. So when I went to the gym today for the first time in weeks I tried to do only the bare minimum required – also known as the minimum effective dose.

Health, Fitness

345 points by surprisetalk 20 days ago | 184 comments

How to Hit Peak Fitness After 40 (nytimes.com)
You can’t train in middle age like you did in your 20s. But if you’re strategic, your best days can still be ahead.

Fitness, Health, Aging, Lifestyle

26 points by cyanbane 30 days ago | 12 comments

Show HN: Hold yourself accountable for gym visits with a $10 stake (gymbully.fit)
Hit your target or donate to charity. Ready to challenge yourself?

Fitness, Motivation, Charity, Accountability

10 points by paul_brook 31 days ago | 18 comments

Your Exercise Gear Reserves The Right To Track And Sell Data On How You Smell (techdirt.com)
A new Consumer Reports study unsurprisingly finds that popular exercise equipment makers collect way more data on users than is necessary, then sell access to that data to a wide variety of dodgy and largely unregulated data brokers and middle men, who in turn generally play fast and loose with it.

Privacy, Fitness, Data Privacy, Consumer Reports, Data Brokers

9 points by hn_acker 37 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Minimal, self-hosted exercise tracker (github.com/bmtwl)
A small, single html file and browser local storage solution for tracking a fixed, rotating set of daily exercises from one week to the next.

Fitness, Web Development, Self-Hosted, Open Source

127 points by DrPhish 56 days ago | 39 comments

Show HN: Marathon Cope 2024 – Your peak fitness, whether or not you ran it (getfast.ai)
Your peak marathon fitness, whether or not you ran it, in 2024.

Fitness, Running, Health, AI, Show HN

14 points by tmulc 66 days ago | 12 comments

Show HN: Run10K Trainer – Personalized Training Running Plans for Your 10K Race (run10ktrainer.com)

Running, Fitness, Training, Software, Health

8 points by alexdevcodes 75 days ago | 15 comments

How Apple Watch estimates VO2Max within 1.2 ml/kg/min without a treadmill test (empirical.health)
VO2Max is a powerful metric of longevity: every 1 ml/kg/min increase in VO2 max reduces risk of death by 9 percent.

Health, Apple Watch, Fitness, VO2Max

89 points by brandonb 112 days ago | 57 comments

OutRun: Open-source, privacy oriented, outdoor fitness tracker (tadris.de)

Open Source, Fitness, Privacy, Hardware

60 points by 0x000042 115 days ago | 21 comments

Why strength training? A programmer's perspective (fhur.me)
About four years ago I started strength training. A strict diet of barbells and kettlebells, averaging between 2-3 times per week. It was one of those decisions that changed my life for the better.

Fitness, Programming, Personal Development

86 points by fernandohur 143 days ago | 161 comments

Maximizing Muscle Hypertrophy: A Systematic Review of Training Techniques (2019) (nlm.nih.gov)
Effective hypertrophy-oriented resistance training (RT) should comprise a combination of mechanical tension and metabolic stress.

Fitness, Exercise, Research, Muscle Growth, Training

44 points by wslh 153 days ago | 4 comments

Show HN: Free AI tailored workout generator (workoutgenerator.fit)

Fitness, Artificial Intelligence, Free Tools

9 points by ggay 156 days ago | 18 comments

A lonely man in his 30s found welcome and community at spin class (longreads.com)
It’s my first day of spin class, and I am in the darkest corner of the room.

Community, Fitness, Social Connection, Loneliness, Personal Growth

140 points by mooreds 158 days ago | 200 comments

Strongman's 'guy rope' muscles show greatest growth, study finds (theguardian.com)
Scientists who examined Eddie Hall say findings suggest set of muscles in the legs are ‘more important than we thought’

Science, Fitness, Biology

7 points by PaulHoule 165 days ago | 3 comments

YouTube will begin limiting access to fitness videos for European teens (euronews.com)

YouTube, Fitness, Europe, Teens, Regulation

14 points by vladoh 166 days ago | 10 comments

YouTube to restrict teenagers' exposure to videos about weight and fitness (theguardian.com)

YouTube, Social Media, Teenagers, Health, Fitness

39 points by vasco 168 days ago | 63 comments

YouTube to restrict teenagers' exposure to videos about weight and fitness (theguardian.com)

YouTube, Social Media, Teenagers, Health, Fitness

6 points by howard941 169 days ago | 4 comments

Things I Learned from Doing Triathlon in My 70s (2023) (triathlete.com)