A look back + plus trackstat.us integration

Posted March 31, 2006

My short term goal is to weigh 168lbs. I pick that number b/c it is the lowest weight I was while using http://trackstat.us/ regularly. I’m hoping I get to that point before next tuesday, that’s when I start incorporating weight training into my plan.

I found something interesting yesterday with John – pictures from 2004-08-11 (right after my birthday) until the end of september of that year. I might show one or two on here, but it reminded me of a program I wrote to track stuff BEFORE trackstat.us. Here is the link
http://metaatem.net/stats.php

It’s generated from textfiles with lines like “w:170.4”.

Going back further, there are posts from me on John Stone’s Fitness Forum dating from 2004-04-01, in other words, exactly 2 years from tomorrow.

Think about that, two years, on and off, of going for fitness, and giving up.
This is just more motivation that I’m going to knock it out of the park this time (forgive the sports metaphor).

One last thing. I’ve been tweaking the layout (lemme know your thoughts), and I’ve added some trackstat.us stats. I had to write a VERY simple API on trackstat.us to make it happen, but it was fun.
Please, let me know what you think.

2 Comments so far

  1. johnk on March 31st, 2006

    I think that you’ll be able to easily beat your mini-goal. You’ll wreck it!

    Awesome job on the API too, I might use it :)

  2. kastner on April 1st, 2006

    Thanks a lot dude!!!
    I ate total garbage at Brandon’s tonight, but not a ton of it.
    We’ll see the effects in the morning!
    The API is cool – I should have made it a LONG time ago (like when ppl were actually using trackstat.us)

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