We rolled out some new features. We made the admin section cleaner and more helpful. We also added functionality that let’s users integrate their facebook account with their beyond the whiteboard account. Watch the quick overview video below.

Up until this point, no one ever really knew how much assistance the various bands provided when used during a pull-up. This made calculating work performed and avg. power output for band-assisted pull-ups impossible.

By the way, which is harder: using blue and purple (or plain) bands together, or just using the green alone? And just how much harder is the blue band than the green band? What about blue and red? We get these questions all the time at our gym.

During the process of incorporating power calculations into beyond the whiteboard, we decided to measure and quantify the assistance provided by the various colored bands. We now know very accurately how much work is being performed by the athlete during assisted pull-ups. These numbers depend on the weight of the athlete, the distance they travel during a pull-up, and the band(s) they are using for the pull-up. This was a huge step toward our goal of enabling comparison between Rx’d and scaled workouts based on work/power output.

Based on our findings, we have created a PDF that shows the relative assistance of the various bands and band combinations, and have made it available as a free download. We hope that CrossFit Affiliates and individual CrossFitters alike will find it a useful addition to their gyms. Feel free to print it out and post it near your pull-up bars, that’s what we did!

Pull-up Band Assistance Chart

Color Version PDF
Black and White Version PDF
*Updated on Jun 24th to include more combinations

Jonathan Kinnick and Corey Tripp

New features that both users and coaches will like. Some of them our based off user feedback which we are really thankful for. Send any comments or questions to comments@beyondthewhiteboard.com.

Users

Upgraded Post Tab

We made the post tab more flexible and, more importantly, more informative. All the posts(weigh Ins, workouts, meals, etc) are broken down by day and time. You can also filter the results and set a date range. For example, you can see how many Pukies you have had in the last day, week, month etc.

Power Graphs

We updated workout graphs to include the average power output and total work performed. We plan to do a lot of things with power and work calculations in the future and are really excited about this feature.

Journal

You can now post journal entries to keep track of physical excursions that you wouldn’t neccesarily post a workout result for.

Like and Share Workouts

Users can now share custom workouts and vote on any workout on the site. We updated the workouts page to have better browsing functionality to complement both of these features. This feature is a start to our browsing ramp up we plan to do in the future.

Admin

Invite Members

We made a simple way for gym admins to invite users to their gym. Your members will get a sign up link emailed to them, and will be automatically added to your gym after they register.

Bug Fixes

Meal Timing

We fixed the bugs that were related to meal timing.

Internet Explorer
We fixed a lot of bugs that were mainly due to Internet Explorer. We recommend using FireFox, since it’s a better browser anyway, or 8.0 version of Internet Explorer.

Next Release

The next release will be focused on the admin section, so if you have any comments or suggestions please send them to comments@beyondthewhiteboard.com