Grips & Grades hangboard app
Instructions:
- Swipe hangboard image to choose your favorite hangboard.
- Choose repeaters or single hangs and duration with the slider.
- pick a grade and generate new workout based on that difficulty.
- Click start workout to start your training.
- Every hang can be customized by long pressing that hang or pressing new hang button.
- On top of time controls activity, there is visual representation of the workout structure which changes every time a parameter is changed.
- In workout activity you can resize hangboard image by pinch zooming, resize timer by long pressing it. After unsuccessful hang you can mark it by long pressing red progress bar so you don't have to do it after the workout.
- After the workout (and when paused) workout progress button appears where you can edit hangs, add workout description and save it to database. Only use this method to edit hangs after you are done with the workout.
- You can hide workouts in database, this is useful for warm up workouts, failed workouts, planning future workouts and it prevents accidentally deleting a workout.
- Behind the graph button workouts can be compared. A vast amount of data is calculated and presented in graphical form.
- Benchmarks activity contains lots of premade workouts. In line with "Grips & Grades" they test variety of grip types and both holds and time controls are squeezed as grade increases.
Disclaimer:
- grades are highly subjective
- Many of the current difficulty numbers are guesses at best, and will be changed a lot in the future.
- Some of the hangboards I haven't even had a privilege to test yet.
In consideration:
Thanks for downloading Grips & Grades training application
- Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!
- All feature ideas are welcome
About this project:
I have had a lot of fun programming this application and hangboarding with this application. But I have gotten to the point where I am satisfied with how this application works on my phone and for my needs (climbing). Next logical step is to share this enjoyment with others, and for this I need suggestions, feedback, ideas, testers, etc. For example I would like the difficulty of holds and grips be based on some consensus and not wild guesses by me. And I would greatly appreciate if the grades are not taken seriously. They got nothing to do with grades outside nor indoors.
Tips for using Grips & Grades:
- Progression test (slider to far right) is a good way to get familiar with different grips and difficulties on a hangboard and identify strong, weak or even dangerous grip types for you.
- You can save your favorite time controls, but even better you can construct whole workouts well in advance. Set hangboard/hangs/time controls as you would normally -> start -> pause -> workout progression -> describe it, for example "my favorite 6B Monday morning warm up" -> save workout to database. Hide is so that it does not ruin your graphs. Now you can later go there through logbook and long click -> "redo workout" to copy that.
- You can quickly check current workout's variables (intensity, difficulty, workload and power) by clicking benchmarks icon.
Hangboarding is no substitute for proper training on climbing wall.
Category : Health & Fitness
Reviews (27)
This is very cool. Not incredibly intuitive but all the features seem to be there if you play with it for a few minutes. Feature Request: How about a Tension Flash Board? Another feature request: How about a field for weight added or subtracted? And a bug: When adjusting the time per hang and the number of hangs per set, you must use the slider. If you just edit the number on the left it doesn't do anything.
I love it so far! It's super customizable and after a little bit of reading, it is easily understood what settings you're changing. This is perfect for someone like me who is still new to climbing trying to train for tougher grades. Only thing I wish there was is a v-scale converter to the European style grading here.
I love this app so far! The way it puts numbers in intensity and difficulty of workouts, wether accurate or not, makes it easy to measure progression. Only complaints are: it forgets my board half the time, so i have to reselect. And the visuals could be nicer, but it doesn't really matter, functionality wise it's spot on.
Very good app! Probably the best hangboard app. I find the random grips a great idea. I find the backthree fingers difficulty is underrated but it maybe me being weak. Also no precision on the type of grip ( semi crimp or open), that could be added. Having said that it is still the best! And it is free!
Easy to use and contains my Wood Grips board which is great. The graphs could do with some additional explanation but I love this app because it's really simple without too many bells and whistles.
The UI was a little bit hard to figure out at first, but other than that, great app. It has workouts for all difficulties on the Beastmaker 1000.
Enjoying app so far as a relatively novice hang board trainer. The randomizer helps keep the interest up with training. Would like to be able to select a preferred board, rather than flipping through the board options each time. Thanks!
Looks good and detailed, loads of options to customize a workout. My Ocun hangboard is, however, not included in the pre-set hangboard. Would be great if it could be included.
I think this is the best hang board app on the market. It is easily customizable, clear indications of whats next, and very easy to use. I want to dock 1 star due to some annoyances editing data, but am not because this is the best app on the market. I cannot say this enough, best app to train a hang board
this is the best app you can find in the store. Don't waste your money buying other apps such as the beastmaker app, here you can find different hangboards (beastmaker as well) and it is entirely customisable. you meed a few mimutes to learn how to use it but it's perfect. download it.
Does pretty much everything you need a hangboard app to do. Many boards, grips and options included, so you can create the workout you want.
Perfect app for hangboard training, pretty much every aspect of the session is customizable and with 19 different hangboards to choose from you'd definitely be able to find your hangboard or something similar
The UI desperately needs improvement, I'd love to see the app save the hangboard last used as well as custom workout and timings, but great app otherwise
Perfect, many possibilities to tweak the workout and no useless bloat in the app. Does exactly what I need!
Everything you need for a complete and customizable hang board workout, including default workouts for nearly every make of hang board out there.
Would be so good if you could change the grading to also allow V scale. Might hit a bigger audience on this side of the world.
Way better than the other hangboard apps that I have used, including the paid apps. Well done on creating a brilliant app and providing it for free.
Very good... ui is bit strange you have to save the changes and apply them if you are going to change time settings
Great workout. Can the chosen hangboard stick? My board is near the end and I have to scroll through every time.
This is fantastic if you own a beatmaker. Much better than their own app. Many thanks!
What if I just need a timer... Having to switch app because I actually know what I want to do and can't just do that is annoying
Extremely useful and fairly straightforward to use
Awesome app but can you add the delire redpoint hangboard?
Excellent app. Does everything I want it too and more.
Pls add Kraxlboard Classic. Many thanks in advance. You may add donate function btw
Nice app! Much better than the others.
This app has given me my best hangboard workouts. I've used interval timers and followed various workout guides, but I never really felt like they pushed me. This app just winds up giving me hold combinations and sequences I have not seen or would think of myself. The variety of boards let's me use it on the exact board I'm working at home or the gym. As far as software goes, the design and UX is lacking. But as a training tool, it's fantastic. This has provided a leap in improving my strength.