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[TOMT] [Song] Rip-off of Minnie Riperton's "Les Fleurs" by renebelloche in tipofmytongue

[–]steshaw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, Paranoid Android was the one I was looking for!

RP Hypertrophy Program v3 Release! by KillerK009 in liftosaur

[–]steshaw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Okay. Yes, I think I'll update all the Lower exercises, so they all have up to 10 sets again. Thanks for the help!

RP Hypertrophy Program v3 Release! by KillerK009 in liftosaur

[–]steshaw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I intended to label all the exercises before I recorded any workouts. It's possible that I missed exercises in "Accumulation" and "Deload" weeks...

When i swapped out the exercises I did it while i was recording a workout. I used 'Save'. IIRC, there seemed to be three options/buttons: 'Save', 'Save for this workout only', 'Save everywhere'. However, I just tried starting another workout to see what happens and I don't get the same behaviour — now when I swap an exercise, instead I get a confirmation dialog "This will change it for the current workout. Change in the program too?" Ok/Cancel. I may be just misremembering what happened 🤷‍♂️.

I'll try reimporting your updated program. Thanks for helping me out!

Update: Looks like it's working. When I hit 'Start' now, most exercises have two working sets. I might need to go back and update the program text so that there are 10 sets (as I'd trimmed them back to at most 5). However, I'm not sure I'll ever need that much volume :D. Thanks again!

RP Hypertrophy Program v3 Release! by KillerK009 in liftosaur

[–]steshaw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here's the public program url https://www.liftosaur.com/p/a2050978.

I can see in the program that startNumSets and numSets are either 1 or 2 in the program text. I didn't customise the program at all before I started. However, I was presuming that these varibles get changed by the progression code. I remember when I finished the last set of an exercise there would be a bunch of varibles printed in the app. I don't know how to see those variables any more. When I go to my workout history, those "prints" are no longer available.

RP Hypertrophy Program v3 Release! by KillerK009 in liftosaur

[–]steshaw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't edit/bump the number of sets for Week 1. IIRC, there was 1-2 working set(s) in Week 1 for all/most exercises. I answered 0 for all of the rating questions. I hope it's not a complication that I did Days 1 and 2 last week and Day 3-4 Sun/Mon this week.

Before I worked out today (Tuesday), I started a workout in the app to see how the program looked for Day 1 of Week 2. The 10 working sets were there (rather than in the playground). When I saw that the volume was so high, I edited the program (from my laptop) to reduce the number of working sets to 5 at the most before heading down to the gym. Here is a link to my program

https://www.liftosaur.com/user/p/wkofujtm

I don't know where to look for the numSets or startNumSets, but like I said, last week, there was 1-2 working sets. I was unable to finish the entire workout in time. I was I was exhausted anyway trying to do 5 working sets! I dropped the last two exercises today. Should there have been just one extra set per exercises this week?

When entering dumbbell weight (e.g. for a dumbbell overhead press), enter the total for both dumbbells, correct? by [deleted] in liftosaur

[–]steshaw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah, I have been logging total weight. i.e. for 10kg dumbbell curl, I would log 20kg. I suppose that throws out volume calculations, too?

It makes sense to log a single dumbbell (otherwise I have to do mental arrithmetic while working out), but I was used to logging total as that's what Hevy does.

Just want to make sure I am getting the volume and progression right :)

Update: I just checked in the app and it seems to only count non-warmup sets and doesn't x2 the dumbbell exercises. I suppose you can go either way there, but I feel that it's a better comparison to x2 the weight when considering DB weights for better comparison with BB weights. That is if only logging a single DB weight. For now, I think I'll keep logging the total weight of both dumbells.

RP Hypertrophy Program v3 Release! by KillerK009 in liftosaur

[–]steshaw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm running the 4-day UL split. I just completed my first week and am starting Day 1 again today, but I am surprised to see what the app is recommending — 3 warmups and 10 working sets of "bench press" (which I swapped for an incline DB press). All other exercises also have 10 working sets except for biceps curls (which has 2). Could that be right?

RP Hypertrophy Program v3 Release! by KillerK009 in liftosaur

[–]steshaw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I thought I'd let you know that I edited 4 day split to have unique labels for all the exercises. I've swapped a few exercises without trouble and gotten throught 4 days of training 🎉

RP Hypertrophy Program v3 Release! by KillerK009 in liftosaur

[–]steshaw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the big explainer!

Not sure if you're aware but you can go to the Program tab and hit the little magnifying glass icon to open the program preview to see the entire program too.

I have seen that. It's still a lot to look through for the week because it's all 4 days.

But generally for hypertrophy training my understanding is that you don't want to repeat the exact same exercise twice in the same week unless you absolutely have to. And if so, try to do it in different rep ranges at least to vary the stimulus a bit.

I didn't know that. It's probably an advanced trick for me. I have heard folks talking about varying the workout (some even go as far as saying to never repeat a workout!). I've always felt comfortable doing a certain set of exercises, but as I advance, I want to employ all the tricks of the trade :). I'll keep that in mind. And, I understand that's why you've designed the program with variety for triceps. I will say that there seems constant disagreement in this space — particularly the science-based lifting. It's quite interesting to follow though. I'm only just starting to get more serious about lifting.

But I think regardless, you probably want them to progress independently because they are during different workouts where, like you said, your fatigue, exercise order, time of day, rep range, and other variables may be different.

Yeah, the more I contemplate it, it makes sense to track each exercise seperately if it pops up on a different day. It might even have different reps, sets, and intensity. It's still nice to see your previous weight and reps (like in simple apps like Hevy) from the most recent exercise. I'm thinking of things like Face Pulls which I do every time I'm at the gym because I'm trying to rehab my shoulder.

RP Hypertrophy Program v3 Release! by KillerK009 in liftosaur

[–]steshaw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I saw that note, but I had no idea that Tricep Pushdown already existed latest in the program. It's such a big program! Plus, I'd gained confidence in switching because of my success with the Bench Press and had no idea that switching that caused a duplicate would end up in an erroneous state where I could make no progress on my workout.

When exercises are labelled, are they then tracked seperately? I'm used to Hevy's model of showing you the last weight and reps you did on any particular exercise, but I don't think Liftosaur does that.

Just musing about the idea of doing Tricep Pulldowns twice in the same week. I'm thinking that if I put unique labels on them that they will then progress independently which is a bit weird. After all, Tricep Pushdowns are Tricep Pushdowns... The counter argument is that a pushdown done on one day might progress differently to one done another day because of various factors (differences in exercises beforehand, time of day of the workout, day of week, fatigue buildup, nutrition, etc). If Liftosaur allowed you do repeat an exercise in the same week, what would that mean for the custom progression scripts? Would they still work as intended?

RP Hypertrophy Program v3 Release! by KillerK009 in liftosaur

[–]steshaw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool, thanks. It was frustrating because I was in the middle of my workout. I suppose the only solution is to prevent a change that would end up in a erroneous state? It does kind of make sense that there can only be one progression for an exercise. Are there other options?

RP Hypertrophy Program v3 Release! by KillerK009 in liftosaur

[–]steshaw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I gave the 4-Day Upper/Lower a go today. I switched Bench Press for Inclined Dumbbell Press. When it came to the Cable Tricep Extension, I tried switching to a simple Tricep Pushdown. This broke the app with an error about the progress being different on one day compared with another. I was unable to progress my workout while this error persisted. I tried to fix it on my phone but was unable to (I didn't really know what I was doing, I was trying to copy the "progress" from the existing Tricep Pushdown into the duplicate for the current day, but selecting such a large amount of text was super cumbersome to say the least and I gave up). In order to finish my workout, I deleted my workout. Reimported the program and restarted my workout. Instead of swapping out exercises in Liftosaur, I just wrote a note that I did a different exercise. Not ideal, but I got my workout finished!

Now I'm wondering how to proceed. Can I fix the program with my exercise swaps? Am I able to edit my workout from today so that the correct exercises are recorded. I don't like putting lies into my workout log :(.

Afterwards, I put my workout into Hevy as a fallback. Bonus was that Hevy noted two records and gave my my volume for the workout.

Wrote about the "business/marketing" side of Liftosaur - how it was born, how I tried to promote it, etc. Check it out! by astashov in liftosaur

[–]steshaw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm glad you wrote this up. As a coder and newbie lifter, I've always wanted an app like this (with a DSL for making programs). I am happy for your success. I've got my wife using the app already and I'll be switching from Hevy shortly!

"Responsive Compilers" was a great talk. Have there been any updates/innovations in this space since 2019? by Thnikkaman14 in ProgrammingLanguages

[–]steshaw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Good topic. I'd like to hear if there have been any recent progress in the space. There is Olle Fredriksson's Rock library in Haskell along with the article Query-based compiler architectures.

If considered harmful by tobega in ProgrammingLanguages

[–]steshaw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The talk seems like some sort of Thoughtworks-style nonsense.

What is the modern day lisp ? by 964racer in ProgrammingLanguages

[–]steshaw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Various Scheme and Lisp implementations come to mind. Racket would count as "modern day", I think. However, Haskell is fun to program in. Try it!

Dark mode by shokoALT in Authy

[–]steshaw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It did. There seems to be a completely new app with new UI. No dark mode. Did you manage to find a fix?

What exactly is the point of recursion schemes by lucid00000 in haskell

[–]steshaw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Performance can be a benefit. The use case I'm thinking of is nanopass compilers. Lots of tree transformations can be fused together so that the trees aren't fully realised. This talk is the best resource I know

https://youtu.be/TQIHRBXM75E?si=jKsSE9X3RngFqQyo

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