Description
Create and track progress of workout routines, keep notes and which muscles were targeted, as well as view trends over time to see your improvements. Uses Apple Fitness workout sessions as the data source.
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RECENT NOTABLE UPDATES:
- Trends view with metrics and charts of workouts, activities, categories, muscle groups and routines.
- Ability to specify muscle groups and/or muscles focused on during workout sessions.
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Do you have a workout routine you like to follow and track?
- Add your workout routines with activities and muscles.
- After an Apple Fitness workout session, assign your workout routine activity to the workout session.
- View trends of your routines over time to beat your personal bests.
Do you like to balance your workout types (e.g. strength training vs aerobic)?
- Assign a workout category to workout sessions.
- Specify what muscle groups and/or muscles were focused on during a workout session.
- Workout categories can be automatically assigned to workout sessions based on the workout session activity type (built-in Apple Fitness activity types) or by the workout routine activity (this app).
Do you like to add notes to your workout sessions?
- Add notes to workout sessions.
- Add an emoji reaction to workout sessions.
- Add tags to workout sessions (which will later be used for filtering and trends).
- Add data-points to your workout sessions (which will later be used for filtering and trends).
Do you like to see your workout progress over time?
- View trends over time of your workouts, activities, categories, muscle groups and routines.
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PLANNED FEATURES:
- Add photos to workout sessions.
- Use of your own images for routines and activities. For now, either an emoji or SF Symbol (by name) is supported. (For more information about SF Symbols, see https://developer.apple.com/sf-symbols/. Relevant symbols have with a "figure" prefix.)
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DEFINITIONS:
- Workout Session: A built-in (Apple Fitness/HealthKit) record in the iOS ecosystem created by various apps, for instance an Apple Watch, the iOS Apple Fitness app or 3rd party apps. The Workouts• app reads these records and provides ability to link data to them.
- Workout Routine: A plan that consists of a series of activities. An activity is a one-to-one match of a single workout. They are performed sequentially and then repeated.
- Workout Activity: An individual workout, usually performed on its own day (e.g. "leg day"), focused on a specific muscle group (e.g. arms, back, chest, legs, shoulders) or general activity (e.g. full-body, running, walking).
- Workout Category: There is a collective understanding amongst health institutions that there are four primary types of exercises: endurance, strength, balance and flexibility. The Workouts• app builds on this concept while adding three additional types: core, mindfulness and sports, as well as renaming endurance to aerobic and flexibility to stretching. Being aware of workout categories will help you balance your activities.