[smartbugmedia]

Need some recommended best practice help here.

I trashed my back, so I have core workout I had to incorporate into my gym workout. My problem:

If I create it as a project and use the notes to see the exercises, I have a project that gets recreated and clogs up my completed items. When I complete the proect a new one happens.

if I set the exercises as a set of tasks underneath a project and the tasks repeat when completed, then my next actions is cluttered because I have all the exercises listed (I have it set to parallel so I can mix it up a bit).

So when this comes on my iphone, I have a massive amount of todos.

Anybody do this stuff for gym workouts and things? Should I create a content @gym and then have ALL my other perspectives exclude it? That is a pain in the a**.

Thoughts?

[whpalmer4]

Do you go to the gym on a predictable schedule? If so, set them up with start dates just before the time you would go to the gym. If you go at different times on different days of the week, you could duplicate the set so you have one for each day of the week, with each action set to repeat weekly instead of daily, with appropriate start times.

Curt Clifton's Populate Template Placeholders script will make setting up the multiple set version easier.

[Brian]

Needless to say, this sounds like a good use case for the "make tasks available based on physical location" request that I think we've gotten a few times. Unsure how many votes that has, but may be worth emailing the support ninjas to add yourself to it.

Okay, another solution. Make a "gym" context for those tasks, if you don't already have one. Set that context to On Hold so the actions in your workout routine don't clutter up your Next Actions list any more.

Next, use these steps to make a "Gym" perspective that will show you the stuff to do at the gym (and only that stuff) even though the actions aren't Available:

1. Select View -> Context Mode from the menu bar.
2. Select the Gym context in the sidebar of your window.
3. Select View -> Grouping -> Project from the menu bar.
4. Select View -> Sorting -> Project from the menu bar.
5. Select View -> Availability Filter -> Remaining from the menu bar.
6. Select Perspectives -> Save Window As -> New Perspective from the menu bar.

If you don't already have Perspective syncing enabled on your phone, enable it. One the perspective syncs to the phone, you should be able to tap into that view and see/complete the actions you need to do at the gym, while still keeping them off your other lists.

Does that help at all?

[whpalmer4]

Brian, isn't that going to result in an incredible level of fitness? :-)

If you're showing remaining actions, and they are set to repeat, even with start dates, they'll just keep replacing themselves in the view.

However, if you do Group by Start Date in the perspective, and include a start date for each action, then you'll be able to see when today's set is done.

[Brian]

Oh right! I hadn't thought about the weekly-repeating approach; I was thinking of the case where they repeated daily, so only one uncompleted copy of each action was going to be visible.

Yeah, for the weekly-repeating version, Bill's suggestion is much better. :-)

[whpalmer4]

Originally Posted by Brian

Oh right! I hadn't thought about the weekly-repeating approach; I was thinking of the case where they repeated daily, so only one uncompleted copy of each action was going to be visible.

But even for the daily repeats, with your grouping settings you never see that you are done (I tried it, after kicking myself for not thinking of it!) because you've always got 1 uncompleted copy of each exercise on the screen, no matter how many times you check them off...I understand that's what tripped up Sisyphus, he kept ticking off "push rock to top of hill" but the action kept reappearing :-)

[jhein]

I am in an similar situation. I track my fitness stuff as well as weight, food, units of water and feeling of my back, neck and head in a separate App like Daily Tracker. This way I can not only track if I did some exercises, but also the numerical values, like weights, sets and repetitions. I also try to find correlations that way.

The reminder to go to the Gym is just a entry in my calendar, but could also be just one task in OF.

[alvinpt]

Luckily this year, there are tons of iphone application available for download. I phone one at itunes for free but I forgot the name. Maybe worth it to check.

I usually do bicycle crunches for fitness and I'm looking for the same thing.

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