The finding that no program prescribes RPE or RIR, and only 10 of 101 mention a deload, says a lot about where the gap is. Written programs describe the plan well. What happens to the person following it is left to whatever app or notebook they use, and that record is usually the first thing lost.
Publishing the data as plain CSV under CC BY is the part I appreciate most, because it will outlive any single app. We learned that from the other side at Ascendra Ventures. Several of us use Actofit body-composition scales, and the official app stopped working, with login errors, OTPs that never arrived and support that did not reply, while the scales themselves still weighed fine. So we built Body Metrics, a free web dashboard, so the readings have a home again. It was one sharp frustration fixed properly rather than a new fitness platform.
Are you planning to add a canonical exercise name column to the dataset itself? "Back Squat" and "Back Squats" as separate entries seems like the first thing anyone joining this to their own training logs would hit.
Ascendra Ventures
The finding that no program prescribes RPE or RIR, and only 10 of 101 mention a deload, says a lot about where the gap is. Written programs describe the plan well. What happens to the person following it is left to whatever app or notebook they use, and that record is usually the first thing lost.
Publishing the data as plain CSV under CC BY is the part I appreciate most, because it will outlive any single app. We learned that from the other side at Ascendra Ventures. Several of us use Actofit body-composition scales, and the official app stopped working, with login errors, OTPs that never arrived and support that did not reply, while the scales themselves still weighed fine. So we built Body Metrics, a free web dashboard, so the readings have a home again. It was one sharp frustration fixed properly rather than a new fitness platform.
Are you planning to add a canonical exercise name column to the dataset itself? "Back Squat" and "Back Squats" as separate entries seems like the first thing anyone joining this to their own training logs would hit.