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Does it have to be an app? A website would do

Or a PDF with workouts for the next 30 days.

This would have been an easy sell for me, whereas the “AI-picked workouts” on this pitch was an immediate turn off. But there are others who are the opposite of me in this regard.

If you had a PDF, where do you think the list of exercises is coming from?

I would hope from a deterministic algorithm. The parameters are finite and well-understood. I don’t understand what purpose an AI serves here

It is a deterministic algorithm that works based on muscles used in the exercise and aiming to work all main muscle groups. I wrote the keyword AI in some places so that the average person would understand it. I might remove it.

When you put it like that, it sounds much more enticing to me. Don’t remove it on account of comments like mine, especially if you have reason to believe it connects with the average person you’re hoping will use it.

Since the term AI seems to be used synonymously with transformer-based generative stuff, and seems to appear in almost every software-related content these days, that’s just where my mind goes.

It might add a layer of variation just to keep things interesting. There are many exercises that work the same or similar muscle groups, but doing the same thing over and over gets boring.

I’ve tried other AI program generators and honestly they aren’t all that bad. I got one to spit out a program based on what I currently needed to work on at the time and the result was OK.

Unless you’re one of those body building types, AI is probably fine.

Or a YouTube channel like "Upright Health" whose short and effective exercises work fine for me to compensate for too much sitting at the desk. I use them in addition to the workouts at the studio twice a week.

Disclaimer: just a regular viewer of the channel.

I think the reminders might be better off in an app, but everything else should work. What I love about apps is that apart from them being more handy and quicker to open, I don't load my server much. Especially since it's free.

Websites don’t always work well for many, go and work somewhere with no internet….

This is something i wanted with the app. In fact it works well with no internet. The exercise videos not so much because i could not figure out how to store high quality videos in app

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