Recommend an app to track my physical therapy exercises

January 16, 2019 4:08 PM

I had knee surgery. Now I have a sheaf of physical therapy exercises. I can't figure out the search terms to find what I'm looking for but I want to be able to check off each time I do a set. and then each time I do a ....session? is that the right word? Some things I have to do 10 times. Do that 3 times. That 3 time thing? Do that 6 times each day.

but then another thing do only 1 time. But do that 2 times each day

also this thing? do 6 times and hold. no that's not a set.....6 times and hold 5 times. Do 4 sets of that. 3.5 times every day.

Halp!

posted by Jenny'sCricket to Health & Fitness (3 answers total)

I've been using an app that's now called Daily Tracker (formerly Lumen Trails) and like it a lot. It's very flexible in terms of what you can track and how — the options for setting up a new category to track include List with Notes; Number Tracker (123); Number Tracker (123.4); Number Tracker (123.45); Number Tracker (Clicker); Time Tracker (Manual); Time Tracker (Stopwatch); Yes or No Tracker; Daily Journal; Journal with Ratings; and Journal with Smileys.

It also has a reminders function, but I haven't tried that because I've been using the Alarmed app for a while and like it a lot. So Alarmed goes off to remind me to take my medications, then I pull up Daily Tracker and note how much I've taken of what.
posted by Lexica at 4:38 PM on January 16, 2019 [1 favorite]

Here's some common workout vocabulary that will help once you find an app you like:

Do a specific movement ten times = do 10 reps (repititions)
Do ten of those movements, three times = do 3 sets, with each set consisting of 10 reps

Do all of that, 6 times per day = There's not a formal word for this, as far as I know, but you'd be broadly understood if you called it a session or a workout, I guess.
posted by nouvelle-personne at 5:59 PM on January 16, 2019 [1 favorite]

I found putting PT exercises into a typical exercise app to be tedious, because my PT at least has always focused on small muscles and/or groups of muscles that aren't really covered in the average gym-focused app. I ended up just typing them all into general to-do list app (Todoist specifically, but basically any of them can handle "arbitrary text" and "repeat daily"), complete with reps and daily sets in the descriptions, and scheduled them to repeat daily. For example, if it's "do one set of ten reps three times a day but not all together," I'd just make three line items, each consisting of one set. You could nest the exercises under headers like "morning session" to sign off on everything being complete.
posted by teremala at 6:38 AM on January 17, 2019 [1 favorite]