Show HN: 7min Workout with Rdio

I think that the latter could be addressed (for those familiar with the idea of the workout) by replacing the circles at the bottom with icons representing each workout. An interim hack might be to just crop the workout guy out of the images being used already, and shrinking that down to icon size.

edraferi3• 13 years ago

Tried out the app. A few thoughts: - There's no way to tell what exercise is coming next, which breaks up flow. - The music changes sporadically, so you can't trust it to tell you when the exercise is going to change. This is confusing. - There is no audible signal that an exercise is starting or ending, so you have to watch the screen to check the countdown. - The circuit re-starts eventually, but there's no indication of how long the circuit has been running, and no way to stop it.

Suggestions: - Add an "on deck" icon, showing which exercise was going to come up next in the sequence. - Change the "rest" message to "rest and prepare for [next exercise]" - The app shouldn't require you to watch the screen, because this distracts from the exercise. Perhaps add audible queues counting down the end of each period. - Add a round / step counter. E.g. "Round 2 Stage 3" for the second time you reach the third exercise in the circuit

oakaz8• 13 years ago

neat ideas! thanks!

outericky• 13 years ago

Interesting. I had no music till I enabled Flash. I could see this being useful if you get lots of different workouts, maybe a different one everyday? What happens if someone comes out with a 6 min workout :/

mpg33• 13 years ago

Pretty awesome

seferphier• 13 years ago

would be awesome if there is a choice to select a collection of music.

eg: feat Eminem feat Snoop dogg feat (any genre of music)

Dewie3• 13 years ago

If I have a browser to use this website, I probably also have some application to play the music that I like.

oakaz8• 13 years ago

yeah but how would you arrange your song plays corresponding to the exercise moods and times ?

Dewie3• 13 years ago

Exercise moods? Times? I'm not sure I know what you're talking about.

The music I want to listen to while I'm exercising is pretty personal/subjective to me. I'm not the kind of guy to play Eye of The Tiger to "get pumped", or whatever. Or to think "hey those lunges have a real gangster rap mood to them".

maxgaudin• 13 years ago

This is great. love the concept.

6cxs2hd6• 13 years ago

Very cool.

Small critique: Wish the song transitions were smoother.

Regardless, I sat here watching it for 7 minutes, and I already feel healthier.

WayneDB• 13 years ago

"Well, what happens if someone comes along with a 6 minute abs workout?"

darwinia• 13 years ago

Epic movie reference. :)

shire• 13 years ago

Very cool, I will use this.

thex86• 13 years ago

Very nice. Can you please add a way to skip some workouts?

maga• 13 years ago

"we have been having it!" - http://www.7-min.com/

edraferi3• 13 years ago

Interesting. Looks like a more solid implementation. It includes more useful audio queues, and a "what's next" display.

Doesn't have the nifty music though, which seems to be the main point of the 7min.io implementation.

oakaz8• 13 years ago

yeah, that app was my inspiration resource

luchs4• 13 years ago

"Press any key to start" is a pretty useless instruction for tablet users without a keyboard.

shawn-furyan2• 13 years ago

Arrow keys didn't work for me, so "Press most any key to start"?

abcd_f• 13 years ago

I always start cautiously, with Ctrl.

AndreasFrom• 13 years ago

Just pressing the screen worked for me

luchs4• 13 years ago

I'm on IE10, it probably only listens for WebKit touch events then.

micampe• 13 years ago

Related, I remembered IBM but turns out it was actually Compaq that had to explain in their FAQ what key the “Any” key was: http://web.archive.org/web/20070627063024/http://www29.compa...

and apparently at some point they changed the text to say “Press RETURN to continue”.

oakaz8• 13 years ago

Hi Luchs, you can also touch the screen; https://github.com/azer/7min.io/blob/master/lib/view.js#L28

luchs4• 13 years ago

Ah, this doesn't work on IE10 which doesn't implement the touch*-events. It would be nice if you enabled clicking (or added a listener for "MSPointerUp"[1]/"pointerUp"[2], which however would work for mouse as well).

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/hh771914(v=vs.85)... [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/pointerevents/#the-pointerup-event

jefftchan• 13 years ago

Very cool. However, no audio for folks outside U.S. (due to Rdio). Would be nice to have a small warning if this is this case, so users aren't left wondering if something is broken.

leoplct4• 13 years ago

Yep, no audio in Europe! Just the first song! Would be great also just some sound to distinguish the start of one workout to the end of it

michh• 13 years ago

rdio works just fine in my part of Europe ;)

esoltys• 13 years ago

Rdio is available in quite a few countries outside the U.S. http://www.rdio.com/availability/

arturbelico• 13 years ago

It worked for me for the first exercise, I'm connected through Germany. After that it stopped.

halida• 13 years ago

Same issue in China.

leoplct4• 13 years ago

Very cool!!

Would be very amazing if the background image is a sea only during the rest

leoplct4• 13 years ago

and a sound that alert you if time is over for that workout

iknight• 13 years ago

I don't get it.

oakaz8• 13 years ago

Hi all, If you would be interested in the development of this, the source code of it: http://github.com/azer/7min.io

lopatin• 13 years ago

Good job Azer!

epa• 13 years ago

Please add a mute button.

decklin• 13 years ago

If I press a key it just changes to a giant "3" and then a giant "NaN".

jacobbudin• 13 years ago

I've been a long-time HN reader (i.e., lurker), but I've just become a commenter to say: Very cool. I'm sweating already. It also really commendable you've made it available open source. One small suggestion: Give a preview of the next work-out in the corner.

hiroprot• 13 years ago

Nice job...you just made me work out for 7 minutes :) That made my day.

Peeda• 13 years ago

Nice, it should however display what the next exercise is during the rest timer countdown so you can get ready for it. For the ab crunches it takes a bit of time to get on the ground if you don't see it coming.

cgag• 13 years ago

absurdly loud

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