# Beeminding Fitness/Strength Goals **URL:** \ **Category:** uncategorized\ **Created:** [November 10, 2013, 3:05am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-fitness-strength-goals/1465 "2013-11-10T03:05:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![j11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3bc359/32.png) [@j11](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/j11)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 7:44pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-fitness-strength-goals/1465/3 "2013-11-10T19:44:02Z")
I don’t have a complete solution, but for the strength training side powerlifting competitions have the Wilks Coefficient [Wilks coefficient - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilks_Coefficient) for normalizing strength goals across different sex/sizes/ages. From what I’ve heard, Crossfit throws a bunch of random things together and is designed to make you tired rather than helping you track progression. A gym visits per week goal achieved what I wanted. Once I’m on a consistent gym schedule, I’m already going to push hard as my goals are strength and progression. For gamification, there’s fitocracy. The points system might not be too balanced, so it could make it hard to beemind. Perhaps you could have a meta goal to improve on one of your fitness measures X times per week. Like if you have run speed goal, run distance goal, strength weightlifting goal, endurance weightlifting goal, then make it your meta goal to get a PR on one of those measures. On Sunday, 10 November 2013 10:49:54 UTC-5, Jake Jenkins wrote: > Hey Ryan, > Would be interested to hear what you come up with. I have similar fitness > goals but haven’t figured out a good way to bee mind. > > I thought of creating goals for fitness tests: Fran, max pull ups, 400 m > sprint, etc. > > And I thought you could combine that with an overall activity goal. Set a > goal to do a work put every day, but you get to choose from a list of > diverse activities or even they get generated randomly. > > Jake > On Nov 9, 2013 7:05 PM, “Ryan Freckleton” \<[ryan.fr...@gmail.com](mailto:ryan.fr...@gmail.com)\\> > wrote: > > > Alright, so I’ve used Beeminder in the past to track visits to the gym > > (great use case, btw. Definitely lets me get my money’s worth out of my > > membership!) and tracking maximum weight lifted (with mixed results – I’m > > still working on this one and can report details if someone is interested.) > > > > But I want a better ‘fitness’ goal. I tend towards a paleo/cross-fit > > style workout, but I also want to have some gamification to encourage me to > > continue. Basically I want to show improvement over time but also want have > > enough flexibility and randomness for it to continue to be fun. > > > > As such I’m thinking about the following method. > > > > - Find an example workout which combines various aspects of strength, > > speed, power etc. > > - Track how close I am to it by counting differences between where I am > > and where I want to be > > - Track the number of differences over time, beeminding the number of > > convergences made until I have completed it > > - Possibly assign points depending on difficulty > > > > I guess I’m looking for a measurement model that will answer two > > questions: > > > > - What should I focus on for my workouts? > > - What should I change about my health and fitness lifestyle, if > > anything? > > > > # Thoughts would be appreciated. > > > > –Ryan E. Freckleton > > > > – > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > “Akratics Anonymous” group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to [akratics+u...@googlegroups.com](mailto:akratics+u...@googlegroups.com) \. > > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out). --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-fitness-strength-goals/1465)._