Velocity/RPE Calibration Table Whitepaper 🔢 , ‘How Do You Coach’ Survey, and More

Although having a database of about a half million reps is nice, some of the data science we do at RepOne Strength depends on a high degree of accuracy and dependability. When we clean our database of dubiously titled exercises and sets with “bands” or “chains” tagged, or a multitude of other conflating factors, half a million quickly turns into a few thousand.

When we started our initiative to find the smallest amount of data we need to build dependable exertion models for individual athletes, we decided to supplement this data shortage with a fully observed study at our facility S&S Barbell. Our study protocol shrunk data collection by about 80% and resulted in valid individualized athlete data models and load velocity curves. We also built a few tools to streamline this process in the future.

Study data overview of our first five subjects

We’re not quite done with data collection, but a few of our customers have shown interest in building these models themselves. We’ll be releasing these tools in the form of a whitepaper to people who sign up for updates on the RepOne Strength website. Along with the protocol, we’ll include the data we collected from our first five participants, a regression interpolation spreadsheet to automatically fill out the rest of your charts, and even a few charts you can use if you don’t have any devices like OpenBarbell at all.

‘How Do You Coach’ Two Minute Survey pt.1, warm-ups. (win a free RepOne device)

Besides raising funds, filing for patents, prototyping hardware, hiring talent, building our data science, and managing to lift every once in a while, we still find time for our bread and butter, building the RepOne Platform. Our co-founder John Lin, the same John Lin who built the SoulCycle iOS app, is doing some amazing things right now with our Athlete Kiosk app and Coaching Portal. Each new build makes us more excited to get RepOne into weight rooms and we’re working as fast as we can to do so.

When building a platform as novel as RepOne, there are a lot of fundamental questions that don’t have clear answers. We tend to follow the build, measure, learn process to develop software, but re-building things that don’t work well is a great way to increase launch dates. That’s why we’re creating our ‘How Do You Coach’ survey series, where we ask one main question in each blog post so the community can help us get to V1.0.

If you want a chance to win one free RepOne device when we launch, you can choose to add your email address in the form below. The person who filled out the most surveys when we ship our first batch will win. If multiple people filled out all of our surveys we’ll pick one person from that group at random.

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As usual, feel free to send us an email with any questions. We’re very interested in your feedback about RepOne, keep an eye out on our social media and blog for new app features, content, and more!

Thanks, Jordan Founder @ RepOne Strength