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Ping: Matt, Open Fitness: Can fitness software learn?
Matt,
You posted a helpful reply to a message I posted some time ago, so I'll ask you, as the author of a fitness program, to comment on this re Open Fitness. I'd appreciate hearing from anyone else who knows anything about this, too. Can fitness software learn about how my body works and get better and better over time at advising me what to eat and how much to exercise? It seems to me that it the software tracked things like how hungry I feel, it might be able to figure which foods or combinations of foods do a better job of keeping the cravings down. Or whether I do better with smaller meals, etc. Does Open Fitness do anything like this? Or is this a useless effort? -- |
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Ping: Matt, Open Fitness: Can fitness software learn?
Hello,
Technically, it is possible to have fitness software associate your results with different things, like meal sizes. Open Fitness actually has this capability for exercise, supplement usage, and also for diet somewhat. It can look at a period of time where your progress rate increased (for example, you started losing weight faster), and tell you things that changed in your workout or supplement usage patterns. It's hard to remember, off the top of my head, but here are a some of the things it can check for... Increased/decreased calorie, protein, fat, or carb intake Starting or stopping any supplement Increasing/decreasing the dosage of any supplement Increasing/decreasing workout length Increasing/decreasing workout volume (number of sets and/or reps) Adding new exercises to your routine Open Fitness can only check what you log, so obviously if you're not tracking your diet, it's not going to be able to check your calorie intake. The way this works, is Open Fitness looks at all of the items I listed above for a given time period, and then compares it all with what you were doing just prior to that time period (uses it as a baseline). It then finds the differences and shows them to you. All of this is under Progress Journal. It's what that 'Why' button does. We really need to document it better, but it's kind of hard to explain this functionality, which is why it's not documented very well at this point. It's important to point out that there is a big difference between cause and correlation. Open Fitness will give you changes in your workout/diet patterns that apparently correlate to you getting stronger, losing weight, etc. But, this DEFINITELY does not mean the things it comes up with are the real cause of your change in progress. You have to use your best judgement there. Matt LurfysMa wrote: Matt, You posted a helpful reply to a message I posted some time ago, so I'll ask you, as the author of a fitness program, to comment on this re Open Fitness. I'd appreciate hearing from anyone else who knows anything about this, too. Can fitness software learn about how my body works and get better and better over time at advising me what to eat and how much to exercise? It seems to me that it the software tracked things like how hungry I feel, it might be able to figure which foods or combinations of foods do a better job of keeping the cravings down. Or whether I do better with smaller meals, etc. Does Open Fitness do anything like this? Or is this a useless effort? -- |
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Ping: Matt, Open Fitness: Can fitness software learn?
I wrote an application called NeuroDiet a few years ago which may be
of some interest. It learns the relationships between symptoms and diet but there is no reason to limit it to just health and food. It is still available on my old web site. It's at the bottom of the page http://www.tropheus.demon.co.uk/ -- Steve Wolstenholme Neural Planner Software EasyNN-plus. The easy way to build neural networks. http://www.easynn.com |
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