Body Dot Build Fitness for Software Engineers

Workout programs should no longer be the key primitives, instead they can be derived from each individual’s input parameters, computed using recommended scientific principles. As a software analogy, imagine going from trading binaries to collaborating on source code and compilers to build your binaries. Any workout session can be generated “just in time” and can take into account current parameters - such as calendar disruptions, rather than pre-generating a multi-month schedule ahead of time.

Note that sometimes the science isn’t quite there yet, and some topics are still unclear or contested (e.g. range of motion in weight lifting). Rather than picking a side, we can let the user make a choice and factor it in during “compilation”. Body.build today supports a basic version of this: when you explore exercises and modifiers/cues, it may show different “opinions”.

cost function when computing program, can auto-generate