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I go to gym regularly and have for decades so I have experience of all kinds of bookkeeping. During 2022-2024 I tried many different fitness apps (for Android) but they all failed to do the single thing I was interested in: log my workout. Instead ALL of the apps (I tried about a dozen before giving up) either wanted to sell me things, suggest me workouts, pretend that they know more about my body than I do (I'm over 50 and I know my body quite well by now) and basically just annoyed they hell out of me instead of being a working logbook.

All I want from a fitness app is to specify my A/B-day routines ONCE and then during gym I just wanna hit some button which means "I completed this set plz give me next one", but I also need a way to mark if I couldn't do a full set or if for one reason or another I had to do the set with lower weights (again, I'm over 50 and trust my body more than my routine). Also would be nice to have a comment box so I could write down the reason why I had to lower weights "shoulder was acting up again".

Anyway, it's 2025 now and I use a paper notebook and a pen and I don't even carry my phone to gym. Like another reply here mentioned I still have phone with me because the gym door only opens with an app (which is incredibly annoying). Paper notebook fulfulls all of my requirements above: I can mark sets with weight, I can cross over a number if I failed to complete a set, I can write down a lower number if my body can't handle the set weight that day, and I can always write down an explanation what was wrong.

Basically this is what I need (imaginary numbers for example):

  Day A
  Squat    200   200   200   200   180   
  Bench    100   100   100   -     -     (left shoulder)
  ...

  Day B
  Deadlift  50   100   150   200   250
  OHP       70    70    70    60   -     (left shoulder)
  ...

The downside of paper notebook is that I have to write down a number after every set, I would prefer for an app just to give me a button for "Done" and then something else for exceptions. The reason I need to OK every set is once you get into higher weights it becomes really hard to keep count as blood from your brain goes to muscles and you feel kinda lightheaded.

EDIT: When I come home from gym I now have to copy my numbers from paper to computer so I can do graphs and stats and that's a bit annoying. If I was using an app I would need to have a way to automatically submit the workout results to MY OWN SYSTEM/API - forcing me to subscribe and use someone elses database is totally out of the question.

I simply got off of GitHub, no need to get out of my career. Why would I use a service who's CEO publicly threatens me?

You are low on testosterone, not surprising as most males above 45 years are. You should go to a private hospital and get your testo levels measured, and with that paper you can _try_ to get TRT (Testosterone Replacement Therapy) from a doctor but if the doctors in Denmark are anything like in Finland you are not going to get the prescription...

Not sure what the legal situation regarding steroids (testo is a steroid) is in Denmark but if you can't get a legal prescription I recommend getting testo from alternative sources. Somewhere between 150-200mg per week should give you a very noticeable improvement.

Getting your testo levels to normal means you'll have loads more stamina to do physical activity and it also helps to grow your muscles back to the size they were before. Ever wonder why old men have a different posture than younger ones? Lack of testosterone. Same reason why older men have thin arms and legs but bulging belly - muscle mass is reduced but fat remains.

I find it easier to just use Slack for random notifications that I need, even if they have nothing to do with Slack itself. Just create a new Slack channel just for those notifications, use Slack API to send them out (simple curl is enough) and make sure all guilty parties subscribe to that channel. To make your phone go beeb boob boob add @channel to your notification message.

The good thing about Slack messages is that they already work on desktop, web browser, Android and iPhone. They're also free - you're not paying per message like you would with SMS.

How so? I had two 11" Airs and the 12" Macbook and haven't bought a Macbook since they stopped manufacturing small laptops. Right now I'm carrying 10gen iPad but it's not the same.

Finland would like to disagree - high legal guns per capita, relatively very high illegal guns per capita and zero (0) mass shootings per year. Yeah, we kill each other with knives, axes, shutguns etc, but it's pretty much always people killing people they know, not random mass shootings.

Here in Helsinki, Finland I see way more Chinese EVs than I see western EVs combined. Now if you ask a random Helsinkian (is that a word?) about this they'd say I was wrong, but what they don't realize is most of the public transportation here runs on Chinese EV busses. And you see way more of those local blue busses than you see other EVs.

You hired developers, not DevOps people. I assume you hired them to develop code, not manage AWS/GCP/Vercel/younameit, right? They are simply doing what you hired them to do.

Sincerely, a DevOps guy.

I have a globally very rare last name and also own the .com for it, registered it in late 90's so that all of us would get their [email protected] email addresses. During the last 25 years exactly one (1) other than me ever wanted one and that was my younger son (he did use it exclusively).

So even if you think getting [email protected] is cool, just like I did/still do, I doubt most of your family really cares.

Also, Gmail/GSuite. Done. If it costs then good, you're not the product.

>Most of us can’t imagine not flying

Actually, "most of us" have never flown and never will during their lives.

What's A312 CP? Just building an A500 so interested in Amiga things.

>A half decent neutral IMAP service would do the job. Any recommendations?

Fastmail is a good service, not free but imho good service doesn't need to be free.