As we are now full swing into New Years resolution season, I’m sure you are all thinking about getting your fitness game in order. If not, then why not?
For the past seven years I’ve carried a little notebook for tracking workouts and exercises at home or at the gym. What I love about the notebook is: I don’t have to think about what to do at the gym because it’s already written down, I can see what I did last time and make adjustments as needed, and I don’t have to carry my phone.
But recently, I wanted to see if I could take recent notebook data, put it into Org Mode, and see if I could better spot trends using historic data.
The notebook is easy for capturing data in the moment, but for processing later I needed something that does a little math.
With Org Mode, I can transfer the data from the notebook to a digital medium, and then do some nice post-processing to visualize the results.
I did a video demonstrating this, and if you’d like to see the code, I put it on GitHub here. This code is just an example of what can be done. Something like this would likely require some adjustment to connect with your personal workout routine.
If you have any comments or questions, feel free to leave a comment below.
As always, be sure to check out my other projects:
- Emacs For Writers handbook
- The basics of shell fu PDF
- Git For Writers
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