Show HN Self-Promotion: Custom Rep/Weight Progression Planner
A developer shares a niche web tool for planning weightlifting progression schemes (linear, percentage-based, deload cycles) built after manually managing progressions in spreadsheets. The post is a product announcement rather than a stated unmet need, though it implies existing workout trackers do not support granular per-exercise progression modeling.
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