Name: Liftosaur: Weightlifting Workout Planner
Rating: 5.0 (1 reviews)

Hi! I'm excited to share my new project - Workout Planner! When you're a beginner just starting to lift weights - almost anything works. You get bigger and stronger pretty much just doing whatever exercises. It's called newbie gains! But that honeymoon period ends soon. Eventually you start to hit plateaus in your growth, and you need to get smarter about your workouts, what exercises you do, setup proper progressive overload, periodization, etc to keep getting stronger and bigger. Our bodies respond differently to different volume and intensity of lifts. But there's a lot of research that for optimal muscle growth you have to be in specific set range weekly per muscle group, and you should hit your muscle groups several days a week. Generally it's 10-20 sets per muscle group per week, at least twice a week. (although it may be different from person to person). When you design your workouts, it's kinda hard to track just in your head how many sets you have per what muscle groups, predict how long your gym sessions are going to be. I was looking for some tool that'd visualize that and help with creating weightlifting programs. I couldn't find anything like that, and created my own! This tool - "Liftosaur: Workout Planner" helps you to: 🏋️ Build your weightlifting programs 📈 Ensure you have enough weekly volume per muscle group, per movement pattern (push, pull, etc), visualize strength/hypertrophy splits, visualize instensity and volume changes in your mesocycles. 🕒 Balance it all with the time you spend in gym I'm a software developer, and IMHO there's a lot of similarities in how software programs and weightlifting programs. In weightlifting, we also use specific syntax to describe our workouts - like sets by reps (3x8), how close we are to failure (Rate of Perceived Exertion - RPE), percentages of Reps Max. Every day at work, I use the code editors called IDEs (Integrated Developer Environments). It's a powerful assistant when you write code - it autocompletes your variable and function names, shows errors in your code, highlights syntax. I thought - it'd be nice to have something similar to write weightlifting programs too! So, "Liftosaur: Workout Planner" is kinda an IDE for the weightlifting programs. You write workouts in plain text, using special syntax. The tool helps you with autocompleting exercises, showing errors, highlighting syntax. Because it's just text, you can tweak it very quickly and easily - select, copy-paste, change. It supports: * Rep ranges (like 3 sets of 12-15 reps - 3x12-15) * RPE (e.g. @8 - meaning it's 8 RPE - about 2 reps til failure) * Percentages of 1RM (e.g. 65%) * If you omit weight, it'll try to come up with proper weight for you based on percentage of 1RM, using RPE tables. E.g. if you write `Bench Press / 3x8 @8`, it knows that generally people can do 8 reps at @8 RPE with 70% of 1RM. * Custom rest times per exercise And finally, you can convert the program you built into a Liftosaur app program - import it there, and run it in an app while you're in gym. Some examples of pre-made programs: * "GZCL: The Rippler" from Cody Lefever: https://www.liftosaur.com/n/79520ff * Stronglifts 5x5: https://www.liftosaur.com/n/49b0... Give it a try, and let me know what you think, whether it's useful for you! Share the programs you build there (you can generate a link for your program)! I'm very excited to hear feedback from you!

Liftosaur: Weightlifting Workout Planner

Plan and build weightlifting workouts wisely

Plan and build weightlifting workouts wisely