Here are some questions I received from user and my answers to them.

  • No Chelsea? I poked around trying to build an every-minute-on-the-minute thing, but didn't really find one.

Chelsea is tricky to do. It didn't seem to fit into any of the templates that I have so far. I don't think I've ever seen that workout come up since I've been doing CrossFit. To some extent this is a balancing act. There are so many possible ways to structure workouts. If you try to support absolutely every possibility you end up with something very complicated and hard to use. That's why I axed Chelsea. I'll have to take a look at it again and see if I can come up with something.

  • I recommend adding abmat sit-ups to the exercise lists

On the abmat situps, I took the attitude that all non-ghd sit-ups are created equal. I haven't actually used an abmat, but I have used a towel and I can't tell that much difference with or without. Again the simplicity-vs-complexity tradeoff comes up. I've tried to strike a balance with the exercises I have. You haven't convinced me on this one yet. Are abmat situps significantly different from floor or towel situps? I'm going to tend to push back on user requests in this area. But if you make a good case, I'll certainly be willing to add exercises (sandbag exercises, farmer-s carry, and waiter's walk for instance are probably ones I would consider adding right now).

  • I got an error message about something not being a valid integer... I think it was fixed when I added a 0 to the "seconds" field on the AMRAP workout total time field.

I'm aware that the error messages aren't very informative. That's at the top of our list of things to do after we get a few more important features done.

  • It might be worth making a special FGB inputter, with the option of entering individual rounds' and events' scores.

There are two ways to add individual rep counts to FGB. If you don't check "Rxd", it will give you an expanded view and you can customize the details of the workout (including adding reps). Instead of leaving "Rxd" unchecked, you can also submit the workout, then go back and edit it to add individual rep counts. You can't add round totals though. That gets difficult to manage. This is one place where I made a compromise for simplicity. The "Reps Score" template was specifically designed for FGB. You just have to add individual rep counts later.

  • I don't see an immediately obvious way to input the 4x800 run, resting as needed.

There are two ways you could do a 4 x 800m run with variable rest. First, you could do it as a time score workout where you put 4 rounds of two exercises, run and rest. Then just add up your times for the each run and put the total in the total time. If you do this, you might want to make some notes about it in the comments section. The other possibility would be to use a custom workout. Put 4 separate 800m run items and the time for each one. The Custom Workout form is designed to be the place you go when none of the other templates work. It's the ultimate in flexibility, but since it has no round structure it takes longer to enter repetitive information.