An assistant that watches without filming
The sports assistant counts your reps through the camera. The image stays on your phone, and that was a hard requirement.
Someone standing next to you during a squat counts along and tells you when you’re not going deep enough. That’s what a good training partner does. The sports assistant in the app tries to do the same, with your phone’s camera.
What it does. You stand your phone upright against something, so it sees you from the side. It counts your reps for squats, push-ups, lunges, glute bridges and crunches, counts along out loud, and after your set says something about how deep you went and whether your trunk stayed straight.
The image stays on your phone. That wasn’t an extra but a condition. Nothing is recorded, and no images leave your device. Recognising your posture happens on the device itself. A camera watching you in your living room shouldn’t send anything out.
Listening too. If you turn on listening along, it hears what you say during your set, so you don’t have to touch your phone. That also only happens on your phone, and nothing is stored.
An indication, not a measurement. A camera two metres away isn’t a laboratory. What it says is meant for comparing your own sets with each other: did I go deeper today than last week? Always check the number of reps before you save the set.
Better with your measurements. Measure your posture once, from the front and from the side. The assistant then works with your proportions instead of an average. That measurement doesn’t keep any images either, only a few proportions, and only you can see them.
Not a replacement for a coach. An assistant sees whether you go deep enough. A coach sees why you don’t. If you’re in pain or in doubt, ask a person.
