Re: Help with custom workouts on Band 2
Been really enjoying the 'build a workout feature' on the band 2, but I've run into a bit of trouble when it comes to skipping exercise groups.
For example, one of my workouts involves 3 different exercise groups, however as anyone who has been to a gym knows, it's not always possible to get on the equipment you want when you're ready for your next exercise. I noticed the band has a 'skip to next exercise group' option, but the problem is that this function skips that exercise group but doesn't let you come back to it at the end, so instead it looks like I've completely missed that part of my workout.
Does anyone know if there is a way to ensure that if I need to skip an exercise group, that it appears again at the end of my workout so I can complete it??
Thanks,
M
Sorry, no way to do this.
There are rather complicated reasons why.
The short of it is, if we just supported fitness plans that were a simple set of exercises to do in any order, than this wouldn't be too hard to manage. But instead we support some really cool and complicated fitness plan routines, and the way the code is written, we never know when some crazy segment of a plan may come up. So what we have is a consistent UI where you can only go forward.
What "skip" even means is confusing, there was a lot of arguing here about that. The underlying technology behind Fitness Plans is actually a lot more powerful than what you see exposed when you use the Build a Workout tool. We support ideas such as workout until you've burned a certain number of calories[0], or looping through an entire workout for a period of time. Of course you can then have multiple standard Circuits within that, and in fact we support the idea of each exercise ending on bunch of cool stuff that you don't see used right now.
Figuring out what "skip" meant was confusing.
In regards to going back to an arbitrary exercise, a single workout can have dozens of exercises in it, split up between a very large number of circuits (internal limits here are also higher than what you see in Build a Workout). Visualizing that on our tiny screen is, well, a really hard problem.
We also didn't want to say "OK so for some plans you can go back, for others you can't", because then users just get very confused that we created some sort of arbitrary cut-off. It would also have involved a lot of work changing how our underlying system behaves, and Guided Workouts is probably our most complicated bit of logic on the entire device right now.
But yeah it sucks, I did 3x5 for a long time and it can totally become not doable on the device I built on the specific system I most closely designed.
tl;dr: No good way to visualize large workouts on the screen, indicate where you are right now in the workout, and let you jump back. Even if we could solve the visualization problem, our code would become very unhappy with jumping around workouts like that.
[0] We use what are called Completion Metrics to determine when you are done with a stage of the workout. Completion metrics include time, distance, calories burned, reps, and heart rate zone achieved for time period (this one is messy and complicated and likely will never see usage). You can put any of these on the entire workout, a circuit in a workout, or an individual exercise. Some truly evil stuff is possible by combining these. I really wish someone internally had picked up on the Calories Burned stuff for a workout. Imagine a torture workout that keeps going through the circuits until you've burned 1000 calories.
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