Comment by cj
17 hours ago
I'm in the gym 10+ hours a week and still use Apple Notes. My only complaint is Apple Notes becomes buggy when the note gets too long (so I started making a new note for each month of the year).
Feature request: ability to have custom excericse types. E.g. today I did dumbbell incline press and alternated between neutral and pronated grip. Gotta find a way to log that. Also support for super sets.
There are a lot of "features" built in to Apple Notes by virtue of being free form / unstructured. And now with LLMs, the appeal of logging things in a structured way is much less.
I wonder what it would look like to create "Apple notes on steroids" (pun intended) -- log your workout the way you normally do, and at the end of the workout use LLMs to apply structure, see trends, insights, etc. That would be cool.
Noted. Good thoughts here.
As an aside, the coolest benefit I've gotten from gym logging apps is charts. It's interesting to see my session volume, 1RM and heaviest lifts go up over time. It helps me plan my progressive overload schedule and notice when I'm plateauing/have to up the calories.
Plus it's super rewarding looking at the chart from 4 years ago and seeing how far I've come.
But you're completely right about notes on finding ways to ergonomically record variation.