Most Weight Lifted in September! by fattysmo

This topic was created for the Most Weight Lifted in September! challenge.

Lets do this!

werd. great motivation to push that extra set.

So for clarification, when you do an exercise like pull-ups or dips do you enter the weight as your body weight or 0?

you’d enter your body weight

It’d be nice if Gyminee’s system was smart enough to recognize exercises that required your body weight, and simply factored in your latest weigh-in as the total amount. A formula could be in place for things like back extensions (50% of your weight… ish?), pull-ups (100%), etc…

Just a thought.

definitely…. i like this idea. there is a challenge for losing a percentage of body weight… so this is a natural evolution.

I agree meshach. For exercises like situps (or crunches) and leg raises I’ve just been entering 2/3 my body weight and 1/3 my body weight, respectively. And for full body weight exercises like dips and pull-ups (I don’t do pull-ups, but the principle applies) I enter in my full body weight. Maybe the creators of Gyminee will develop the code a bit more so that it adopts a consistent fraction of one’s body weight for those types of exercises.

An example of exercises that I’ve been mulling over are squats and calf raises. For those, I’ve just been entering in the weight on the bars (or dumbbells), but one could argue convincingly that one should include one’s body weight since you’re technically raising your body up too. If you did a leg press, the weight there would be, at the very least, your body weight plus the weight you’d do for a squat. So as far as challenges go, doing leg presses and calf presses give you an advantage over doing squats and calf raises, even though they’re the same exercise. But I guess the person creating the challenge could specify ahead of time how they’d like people to enter in their weights to be consistent with everyone else.

I don’t know. :-P

We’re looking into ways that will help solve this problem. In normal exercise tracking, I would suggest to only put a weight on for example, pull-ups, if you were doing them weighted. But, this is more cloudy when we’re talking about the weight lifted challenges.

For the time being, I would suggest manually adding your body weight (or a fraction of it) to get credit towards the challenge.