Mega-update of the exercise library
complete
Louis Deveseleer
At the origin of Calistree, there was an excel file containing the list of exercises and their characterization. Over the years, the number of exercises and the complexity of their properties kept growing and the format of the excel file started being a hindrance to the development process.
We're finally tackling that issue and for the last 5 weeks we've been moving all the exercise library data over to the codebase, which makes it much easier to write complex, rich structures and modify them to improve the user experience and add new features.
This profound change in the way things are structured has already led to several visible improvements, which will be available in the next app version (probably late January since we still need to finish this update and test it thoroughly).
- "Set parameters": only the relevant options are shown.
- Eccentric, band-assisted and weighted variations are now their own exercise, which can be accessed from the base exercise through modification of the variation parameters.
- "Equipment" parameter added (https://feedback.calistree.com/requests/p/equipment-variation) with more video variations coming soon too.
- "Grip width" parameter added (switch easily between close-grip, standard and wide pullup for example).
- Bilateral/Unilateral symmetry replaced by a more complete "Sagittal symmetry", which will remove doubts as to how to log reps.
- Custom exercises: all characterization options available (https://feedback.calistree.com/requests/p/complete-custom-exercises-with-equipment-muscles-skill-tree-neighbours-difficult)
- 50 new exercises
Beyond those updates, I am most excited about how much easier it will be to add new exercises and make other library-related improvements from now on! In the future, we'll be able to quickly convert fully-completed custom exercises to official ones (https://feedback.calistree.com/requests/p/crowdsourcing-of-exercise-data), as well as custom flows (https://feedback.calistree.com/requests/p/share-custom-flows-publicly). We will also add video variations for all weight variations to remove any confusion (https://feedback.calistree.com/requests/p/create-separate-videos-exercises-for-various-types-of-equipment-including-weight), add more types of exercises, such as steady-state cardio (https://feedback.calistree.com/requests/p/add-steady-state-cardio-activities) and overall keep refining the library to log all your activities as precisely and easily as possible.
Louis Deveseleer
complete
This now finally available!
In the end there are 130 new exercises coming along.
More details here: https://www.reddit.com/r/calistree/comments/1iohsjt/app_update_424_130_new_exercises_exercise/
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sweaty-fatty
I hope you'll find a way to include False grip as a hand position option, which is relevant only for Ring exercises, I think.
Louis Deveseleer
sweaty-fatty I think it has its place with the bar as well, for example to achieve a slow muscle-up on the bar. We can add that in the future!
Louis Deveseleer
in progress
Gabriel
Excellent app, by far the best calisthenics app I've tried. It works great on both iOS and Android. Congratulations on the effort and commitment.
A. L.
So cool! Thanks. I'm very excited for this update
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Gerard van Papendrecht
Sounds great, ready to deal with a few thousand exercise requests :-)
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sweaty-fatty
I just started doing the Ring Support exercise. Not exactly, I can't do that exercise exactly, I need to do a regression and build up to it. I'm using this as guide:
(also doing rings plank, another above the rings hold exercise)
Since I couldn't find any exercise progressions towards ring support I could use (no dip bars or something stable and solid enough I can trust) I resorted to marking it as band assisted. It's still showing as if I'm making good progress towards Ring Support mastery, probably it doesn't distinguish between this "assisted" form with the real thing.
This new update seems to be very timely for me. Looking forward to trying it out in the beta channel.
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ShaDe-r9
sweaty-fatty As someone who love ring support, I'd say that the ring made it harder just at the beginning because they require more stabilization, but once you reach that, they became more manageable so you don't really need to use parallel bar or dip stations to start with.
As I find harder the step from ring support to RTO form, I use some assistance too. in case like this, I try to avoid to mark as "mastered" before I can really master the full exercise or I keep going until I reach real mastery (this is valid also if you want to reach more rep/sec on some exercises instead of default value)
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sweaty-fatty
ShaDe-r9Yeah, that's why I got the rings instead of getting dip bars and pull-up bar, it can replace them both (and more stuff). I'm using this guy's video as a rough guide:
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Pini
Amazing!!! 🏆🏆🏆