I think that the latter could be addressed (for those familiar with the idea of the workout) by replacing the circles at the bottom with icons representing each workout. An interim hack might be to just crop the workout guy out of the images being used already, and shrinking that down to icon size.
Tried out the app. A few thoughts:
- There's no way to tell what exercise is coming next, which breaks up flow.
- The music changes sporadically, so you can't trust it to tell you when the exercise is going to change. This is confusing.
- There is no audible signal that an exercise is starting or ending, so you have to watch the screen to check the countdown.
- The circuit re-starts eventually, but there's no indication of how long the circuit has been running, and no way to stop it.
Suggestions:
- Add an "on deck" icon, showing which exercise was going to come up next in the sequence.
- Change the "rest" message to "rest and prepare for [next exercise]"
- The app shouldn't require you to watch the screen, because this distracts from the exercise. Perhaps add audible queues counting down the end of each period.
- Add a round / step counter. E.g. "Round 2 Stage 3" for the second time you reach the third exercise in the circuit
Interesting. I had no music till I enabled Flash. I could see this being useful if you get lots of different workouts, maybe a different one everyday? What happens if someone comes out with a 6 min workout :/
Exercise moods? Times? I'm not sure I know what you're talking about.
The music I want to listen to while I'm exercising is pretty personal/subjective to me. I'm not the kind of guy to play Eye of The Tiger to "get pumped", or whatever. Or to think "hey those lunges have a real gangster rap mood to them".
I have seen the first exercise, which gives me rap music. The other exercises didn't give me any music which was a relief, though there were not audio cues as to when the exercises began and ended. I didn't have much of a need to try to work out with it because I've already tried this: http://www.7-min.com/
Ah, this doesn't work on IE10 which doesn't implement the touch*-events. It would be nice if you enabled clicking (or added a listener for "MSPointerUp"[1]/"pointerUp"[2], which however would work for mouse as well).
Very cool. However, no audio for folks outside U.S. (due to Rdio). Would be nice to have a small warning if this is this case, so users aren't left wondering if something is broken.
Same here from Germany, I can listen to the first song just fine, and then it goes silent.
I also miss a countdown tick sound (e.g., 7-min.com), which is very helpful for exercises on the floor.
I've been a long-time HN reader (i.e., lurker), but I've just become a commenter to say: Very cool. I'm sweating already. It also really commendable you've made it available open source. One small suggestion: Give a preview of the next work-out in the corner.
Nice, it should however display what the next exercise is during the rest timer countdown so you can get ready for it. For the ab crunches it takes a bit of time to get on the ground if you don't see it coming.
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[ 2.0 ms ] story [ 1153 ms ] thread- Music is not everyones taste.
- Would be interesting to see an overview of the routine first.
This refers to a specific workout which received a bit of attention in the news and here on HN in recent months :
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/the-scientific-7-mi...
Original discussion :
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5704485
This information should be easily accessible from the site.
Suggestions: - Add an "on deck" icon, showing which exercise was going to come up next in the sequence. - Change the "rest" message to "rest and prepare for [next exercise]" - The app shouldn't require you to watch the screen, because this distracts from the exercise. Perhaps add audible queues counting down the end of each period. - Add a round / step counter. E.g. "Round 2 Stage 3" for the second time you reach the third exercise in the circuit
eg: feat Eminem feat Snoop dogg feat (any genre of music)
The music I want to listen to while I'm exercising is pretty personal/subjective to me. I'm not the kind of guy to play Eye of The Tiger to "get pumped", or whatever. Or to think "hey those lunges have a real gangster rap mood to them".
if I have more chance to work on it, I'll build a menu to let people choose songs...
for now, you can just fork it; github.com/azer/7min.io
Small critique: Wish the song transitions were smoother.
Regardless, I sat here watching it for 7 minutes, and I already feel healthier.
Doesn't have the nifty music though, which seems to be the main point of the 7min.io implementation.
and apparently at some point they changed the text to say “Press RETURN to continue”.
[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/hh771914(v=vs.85)... [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/pointerevents/#the-pointerup-event
Would be very amazing if the background image is a sea only during the rest