What am I doing starting another project?!
Bah, I ask myself that every time I start something new. Some projects are destined to be worked on indefinitely and some are fated for abandonment, a few even become completed. But there will always be new ideas to be exercised and vetted out.
I've always been frustrated with the workout tracking and journaling systems out there. They just don't track what I want to track in ways I want to track them. (I'm very selfish, you see.)
So, my latest little coding project is to come up with a system which will allow me to track my workouts the way I want them to be tracked.
Like the wide variety of projects I work on, I also do a lot of different types of workouts:martial arts, running, hiking, skating, gym weights, kettle bells, rowing, yoga... and so like that. I want to be able to track hiking by elevation change, hiking duration and sweat level; but I need to track gym weight work by machine weight, repetitions and sets.
My bian system should be able to handle both beautifully, gracefully, seamlessly, and flawlessly.
And if my system can do all that, it can probably track just about any kind of metric. Thus, I am not building a workout tracker, but a metrics tracker! Tadaaaa!
Bah, I ask myself that every time I start something new. Some projects are destined to be worked on indefinitely and some are fated for abandonment, a few even become completed. But there will always be new ideas to be exercised and vetted out.
I've always been frustrated with the workout tracking and journaling systems out there. They just don't track what I want to track in ways I want to track them. (I'm very selfish, you see.)
So, my latest little coding project is to come up with a system which will allow me to track my workouts the way I want them to be tracked.
Like the wide variety of projects I work on, I also do a lot of different types of workouts:martial arts, running, hiking, skating, gym weights, kettle bells, rowing, yoga... and so like that. I want to be able to track hiking by elevation change, hiking duration and sweat level; but I need to track gym weight work by machine weight, repetitions and sets.
My bian system should be able to handle both beautifully, gracefully, seamlessly, and flawlessly.
And if my system can do all that, it can probably track just about any kind of metric. Thus, I am not building a workout tracker, but a metrics tracker! Tadaaaa!
