Pyramid was my final project during my time at Flatiron School. This is the repo for backend side of this project. It takes inspiritation from the GZCL Linear Progression weightlifting program. Come check it out!
Watch this video to see a walkthrough of the project
Weightlifting has been one of my growing hobbies for a while now and this training program helped me get stronger pretty quickly when I was starting out.
When I was mulling over project ideas, my gut instinct was work on a project that solved a problem that I was dealing with. Working with spreadsheets in the gym felt clunkie, so I took inspiritation from other gym apps to make a project that suited my needs
One challenge, among many, was implementing the algorithm that followed the linear progression protocol based on a failed or successful execution of sets (like finishing 5 sets of Squats for 3 reps a piece) and determining the weight for the next time a user would do a certain routine.
Another challenge was trying to determine how my models and my relationships between them would be structued given how the workout program works. Say for example, a workout you're doing is a T1 version of a Squat (5 sets by 3 reps). However, another workout has a T2 version of a Squat (3 sets by 10 reps). How would you differentiate a T1 exercise versus a T2 if you want to separate the models? Eventually, the screenshot below is what I came up with:
Before you begin, ensure you have met the following requirements:
- Have ruby installed
- Be sure to run
bundle installif you decide to fork the repo to install all gems and dependencies
This project was built using Ruby on Rails as an API. It also uses the Fast_JSON API gem to serialize the data quickly.
If you want to contact me you can reach me at [email protected].