Hi all,

Some of you might know I made an app that lets you log workouts the same way you’d write workouts in your iPhone notes app, but you might not know that I released the app a year ago November 19th (well almost a year ago)

To celebrate one year of GymNote+ being live on the App Store, I’ve decided to give away 3 lifetime subscriptions to the app

To celebrate a year on the App Store, I’m giving away 3 lifetime subscriptions (worth $39.99 a year, for life).

To enter: comment your favourite exercise below. One top-level comment per person.

Entries close Saturday October 12 at 10:30PM UK time. I’ll draw the 3 winners with RedditRaffler  and edit the post with the link here announcing the winners and I will then DM those winners directly to give them lifetime pro.

No purchase needed.

Good luck!

What is GymNote+?

What problem does GymNote+ solve - (ABC section)

There are many gym apps out there, but Gym Note Plus shines by letting users track workouts using their notes app. Other apps like Hevy and Strong force you into using drop down menus and forms. We're all different, we all write our workout notes differently, but we all want to see progress. This is the problem we solve.

Why is GymNote+ better?

No other gym app allows users to just copy and paste from their notes app to track their progress over time. The app even lets you take a photo of your hand written notes. The aim is frictionless workout tracking that other gym apps can't do.

Cost

Freemium model, try 3 translations for free to see if the app's worth your time

pro monthly: $4.99

pro annual: $39.99

pro lifetime: $99.99

Pro gives you:

- Unlimited translations

- Export to csv/txt files

- Unlimited templates

landing page: https://www.gymnoteplus.com/

App store: https://apps.apple.com/app/gym-note-plus-workout-notes/id6746699616

Dedicated subreddit: r/GymNotePlus

Totally over the top, and completely optional, sakura leaves animation can be turned off... but I love it so. I decided to leave it in, has a dark mode and light mode depending on operating system

I automated my SEO using my own tool for two of my products. It seems to have worked for both, kinda feel like I should make a saas for doing this for other people now but not sure

My conversion rate is super low, I don't think my app store pictures are that bad? https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gym-note-plus-workout-tracker/id6746699616

Everything else looks okay I think, high downloads in Jan because I'm in the fitness space.

Wanted to share something I've shared once or twice here.

Angular get's a bad wrap from tech influencers as being a framework that's only used by dinosaur corporations.

But I've been using Angular to make Gym Note Plus for over a year now, with Ionic and Capacitor (but many self rolled components)

I've had over 2,366 signs up as of writing this, and been documenting it all in r/GymNotePlus

No one can tell what language my app is made in, you can't even tell it's using a webview unless you've got a really trained eye.

Just wanted to throw an example out of a new saas that uses angular to show it's very much still alive and super useable for new tech ventures.

Full disclosure though, I wrote the landing page with nextjs just because I felt the SSR capabilities were better

I run a workout logging app, and I got curious about a question of:

"Am I progressing at a normal pace?"

Nobody really answers it with numbers, so I went through the logs. 4,307 workouts, 861 people, all anonymised.

For every person and every exercise I compared their first logged session to their most recent one, using estimated 1RM (Epley) so a heavier set of 5 still counts as progress.

Rules: an exercise only counted for you if you logged it at least 3 times across 2 or more weeks, warm-up sets were dropped, everything was converted to kg, and I report medians so one person adding 60kg to their deadlift cannot drag the whole thing up. That left 819 qualifying lifter-and-exercise histories, averaging about 90 days each.

The numbers (median change in estimated 1RM, first log to latest):

• Squat: +21.1%
• Romanian deadlift: +20%
• Deadlift: +15.3%
• Overhead press: +3.5%
• Bench press: +2.6%
• Hammer curl: 0%

Across everything, the typical lifter added 5.6% over roughly three months, which works out at about 2% a month.

Huge leg vs upper gap in terms of rprogression. Pooled together, lower body lifts moved 14.9% and the upper body pool (bench, overhead press, lat pulldown, lateral raise, hammer curl) moved 2.6%. Nearly six to one.

Three possible hypothesis, though logs cannot prove cause:

1. Most people show up having pushed and carried things in daily life, but almost nobody has squatted under load. So way more potential.
2. Pressing runs out of small jumps. 60kg to 62.5kg on bench is a 4% leap. The same 2.5kg on a 120kg leg press is 2%. Dumbbells are worse, since the rack jumps from 12.5 to 15 whether you are ready or not.
3. Part of an early squat number is skill, not muscle. Better depth and bracing show up as weight on the bar.

Face pulls were actually the fastest riser at 22.9%, which fits the same logic. Nobody trains rear delts before they start writing things down.

The slightly concerning part... only 59% of histories improved. Four in ten latest logs were flat or below the first one. Some of that is the method, because "latest log" is whatever day it happened to be, so deloads and post-holiday sessions land in there. But it is a decent reality check for anyone who thinks everyone else is adding weight every week.

Known issues with the data: this is people who chose to use a logging app, so it skews toward people who care about progress. Some exercises only had 10 qualifying lifters. Spans vary. It is a benchmark, not a study.

If you want a rough yardstick for your own training: about 2% a month on a lift is normal, 5% or more is a strong run, and a flat line past month four is worth changing something over.

Happy to answer questions about the method or break out any exercise that is not in the list if it's helpful for people

Hi all,

Like many of you, I like to use my notes app to track my workouts. I've been working out for over 15 years now, but could never get myself to consistently use an app of excel spreadsheet.

Despite this I wanted to see my progress on a graph, I wanted the nice data insights these apps gave me.

Being as stubborn as I am, not wanting to change how I tracked my workouts, I made an app to solve my own problem.

What problem does Gym Note Plus solve - (ABC section)

There are many gym apps out there, but Gym Note Plus shines by letting users track workouts using their notes app. Other apps like Hevy and Strong force you into using drop down menus and forms. We're all different, we all write our workout notes differently, but we all want to see progress. This is the problem we solve.

Why is Gym Note Plus better?

No other gym app allows users to just copy and paste from their notes app to track their progress over time. We even let you take a photo of your hand written notes. Our aim is frictionless workout tracking that other gym apps can't do.

Cost

Freemium model, try 3 translations for free to see if the app's worth your time

pro monthly: $4.99

pro annual: £$39.99

pro lifetime: $99.99

Pro gives you:

- Unlimited translations

- Export to csv/txt files

- Unlimited templates

landing page: https://www.gymnoteplus.com/

App store: https://apps.apple.com/app/gym-note-plus-fitness-journal/id6746699616

Dedicated subreddit: r/GymNotePlus (I've been posting in here for almost a year now!)

Any feedback is welcomed!

I've been working on this for a round a week now, there's still a lot of obvious flaws but here's my process:

I started by describing what I want the core game loop to be to claude fable with some reference images of my girlfriend, her work, and some of the locations she'd done markets in. I then told claude to ralph-loop until the game was complete and to utilise the gauntlet skill to make a super polished indie pixel art game. Using Opus sub agents.

That's kind of it tbh, I then refined parts of it in further prompts and ensured documentation for choices were made in the repo.

I started with a simple game loop partially shown here, which was:

- order comes in

- choose the wax

- melt the wax

- add the parts to the candle

- package the candle

making sales progresses the games and gives you coins to buy extra stuff for the shop/studio

then I expanded to have a shop front area, and went further on to allow the shop to be customisable via re-arrange

It's using vanilla html, css and js

I just wanted to make a small game for my girlfriend's upcoming birthday, I've been a software engineer for over 3 years now but always wanted to do some game dev but never had time!

EDIT: Thought i'd include my girlfriend's candles really it's her art that brings this to life! I hope I can keep iterating on this to reflect how good her candles actually are!

Gym Note Plus has been a labour of love that I've worked on for over a year now

It's changed a lot since first launch, 2,157 users signed up to log their workout notes and uncover their strength gains!

Why I made GymNote+

I was coming up to a lean bulk and knew tracking my progress was the key to success, but I had an absolute reel of workout notes in my notes app. I didn't want to change how i logged workouts... sat in a coffee shop, the idea hit me that maybe I wouldn't need to

So Gym Note Plus was born.

How is this different to other Gym apps?

Other gym apps make you use their system to log a workout. Hard dropdowns, set plans.

Anyone who has used the notes app to track a workout understands the freedom of doing so; it's frictionless by design.

The core philosophy is whether you write "Bench press 225lbs - 12, 10, 8" or "I did bench press for 3 sets, 12 reps, 10, then 8" it. just. works.

Any feedback is welcome, I've documented the entire journey of the app over at r/GymNotePlus !

Just got #1 app in the Health & Fitness category on SeoReceipts

Been grinding seo for Gym Note Plus for the past year so pretty chuffed with this!