There is no excuse to avoid maintaining physical activity, wherever you are, because the options for this are many. You can go to the gym, workout at home with apps dedicated to teaching you routines, and even play mobile games that ask you to move in real life to advance through challenges and levels.
And for this reason there are also many resources that can help you practice correctly. One of the most recent is a genius called GymCam, dedicated to doing something very important when it comes to physical activity: Count the reps you do at each stage of your routine.
GymCam: the exercise assistant you needed and didn’t know about
With a very simple interface and the right options, GymCam is a project of an independent developer. According to his own words, it is an app that he created as a hobby, but nevertheless it is really useful when it comes to helping you count the repetitions of the exercises. And everything from your cell phone camera.
To set it up you must first grant it permission to access your smartphone’s camera. Next, a menu will appear very similar to the one used for taking photos and videos, only with several extra items. In the bottom right corner, there is an option for choose the exercise you will do (for now it supports push-ups, squats, leg raises, chin-ups and lunges).
The app recommends, among its instructions, to place the cell phone on the ground or supported on a tripod and facing towards you. the camera you should concentrate your whole bodyand only then will the red icon at the top turn green. That’s when you’ll know that it will count reps in real time as you train.
This count is also visible from that interface. Generally, you can do everything from the same screen. And although you can register from the app and then see the result and repetitions, this step is not necessary, since the program simply needs to identify the silhouettes performing the exercises to start counting in real time.
Without a doubt, it is a very interesting resource, which It can help you with repetition if you want to keep your mind busy with other things while you train.
