We’ve just made Wodscribe available on the App Store and we are so amped to have reached this milestone! We’re giving away 50 free downloads, read on to learn how you can get one.
We made Wodscribe for CrossFit athletes who want to level up their game by getting better insight into their everyday performance in the gym. Runners and cyclists all rely heavily on GPS tracking to measure their improvements over time, and to gain valuable insights into their workout performance. CrossFit athletes have never had anything similar and needed to rely solely on their workout finishing time or on the total number of reps in an AMRAP. Heart rate measurements and calorie calculations can indicate the workout intensity, but it does not come anywhere near the value of a pace graph or split times for a runner.
Wodscribe solves this problem by measuring athlete movement and uses machine learning to recognize the exercise type and count the number of reps. We then further process the data in order to detect the workout type (e.g. AMRAP or EMOM), rounds, rest, transitions, set sizes and much much more. All this is presented beautifully in the iPhone app so you can see exactly what you need to work on, and what you are absolutely crushing.
Enough talk, let’s look at an example!
The example workout is “Diane”, 21–15–9 deadlifts and handstand push-ups. Wodscribe knows that Diane is a benchmark workout and makes it easy to keep track of your personal best and progress over time. Currently, we support Cindy, Diane, DT, Fran, and Grace, but more are coming soon.
When opening the Scribe (a workout recording), I see the workout score, an overview of the rounds, and my heart rate zones. The “Rounds” graph makes it immediately obvious that my handstand push-ups are taking the majority of the time, and that most of the time is spent in the round of 15 reps. So let’s dive in and see why those HSPU take so long.
The exercise details screen contains a lot of information. It can be a bit overwhelming, but it’s actually rather simple to use. From the “relative rep times” graph I see that the time I spend upside down for each rep is pretty much the same in all the rounds (the purple work bars are equally long), and my transitions are solid. The problem seems to be the amount of rest between sets in the round of 15.
Scrolling down and expanding the roundI see that I’m resting more than a minute (66 seconds) before being able to do the last two reps of the round. During the workout, it definitely didn’t feel like it was that long. If I can bring the two last rest blocks down I can probably save almost a minute. Normally a good way to bring down the overall time is to do sets of consistent size with a fixed amount of rest in between. Looking at the rounds of 21 and 9, I see that about 20 seconds should be sufficient rest between sets. Next time I will try to do 5 sets of 3 reps with 20 seconds in between. That will save me almost a minute (54 seconds)!
These are some of the features available in the first version of Wodscribe that is available right now on the App Store. We still have loads of ideas that we want to integrate to make it even easier to spot how to improve and optimize your day-to-day training.
As a special promotion, we are giving away 50 free downloads. All you have to do is send us an e-mail at hello@wodscribe.com with the link to your CrossFit Games Athlete page (e.g. like this) (or your Instagram if you have not participated in the Open). Note that using the app requires an Apple Watch. You can follow us on Facebook to stay in the loop.
