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Life & fun · January 23, 2021

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Traindown – A language to help athletes express their training

Traindown: A language to help athletes express their training.

Traindown – A language to help athletes express their training launched on January 23, 2021 with 67 votes, #680 of 3,157 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.

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Traindown is a language designed to help athletes document and communicate their training activities. Launched in 2021, it provides a structured way for athletes to express workout details, exercises, and training progress. The tool is intended for anyone who wants to clearly record and share their training routines using a specialized syntax created specifically for athletic workouts.

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The Traindown format was created first and foremost to make understanding what happened during a given training session easier to do by humans than with formats such as spreadsheets, JSON, YAML, etc. Humans love narratives. We see the world in terms of narratives. Why do we suffer reading something designed for computers to make sense of our training data? Traindown is part of a broader movement in software to make both applications and data more human centered. Start with the person and work outward. We should never settle for "it is what the computer prefers." The format is more compact than JSON, YAML, XML, etc. It is also easily output into spreadsheets as well as other training…from traindown.com

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