Week in Review

Published March 22, 2024

With the weather warming up, I've slowed down development on LHF. It's fine; I know I'll pick back up. I could push an extra feature, or overhaul the marketing page, but spending time to go see the cherry blossoms at the Jefferson Memorial is worth it. I'm taking off next week for the kids' spring break, maybe LHF will see a boost of activity. Before I get ahead of myself, let's review LHF's progress since last Friday.

Exercise Directory

New Exercises

On a personal note, I dropped the olympic weightlifting exercises from my routine this week. The Snatch and Clean family of exercises are amazing compound movements that train explosive strength. I regularly feel strain in my lower back and front shoulder when I do them though. I could drop weight and focus on form, and maybe I will someday. For now though, these exercises aren't part of my routine.

I mention the omission of these exercises for a couple of reasons:

  1. To normalize routine variations. Yes, I should work hard during my sessions. No, I don't have to do every exercise..
  2. To exemplify LHF's flexibility. It's easy to pick up and drop exercises from the current list of 250.

Speaking of removing exercises, that relates to my development this week.

App Development

Remove Exercises from Planning Page

I've mentioned the Remove Exercise button in previous posts. While there was a button, it didn't do anything. I wired it up this week. While you're planning your session now, when you see an exercise you know you don't want to do for a while, you can remove it. Just click this button:

A screenshot of the LHF planning page showing the Remove Exercise button

Remember you can always add the exercise back in your exercise preferences.

Business Development

I had a serious conversation with someone about the science of LHF this week. They asked, "How do I know that LHF works?" I responded that the principles of Progressive Overload apply here, the same as any approach to strength training. The person agreed with the science of gradually increasing resistance, but followed up on LHF's muscle and exercise recommendations. How do I know that working cold muscles is best? It's a good question. I intend to find any scientific papers that I can about the subject. If you know of any, let me know in an email.