💪 Gym Pushups Break

A VS Code extension that, on a timer (default 45 minutes from when VS Code starts), locks your editor with a break panel and won't let you continue until you do 10 pushups — validated live with your webcam.

Install

Go to the Releases page and download the latest gym-pushups-break-*.vsix.
In VS Code, open the Extensions panel → ... menu → Install from VSIX…, then pick the downloaded file. (Or from a terminal: code --install-extension gym-pushups-break-0.1.0.vsix.)
Reload VS Code. The countdown starts automatically.

How it works

When VS Code finishes starting up, a countdown begins (shown in the status bar: 🔥 Pushups in 9:58).
After the interval, a break panel opens and locks. It turns on your webcam and runs a pose model (TensorFlow.js MoveNet) locally inside the panel.
Get into pushup position so the camera sees your upper body (a side angle works best). Each time you go down (elbows bent) and back up (arms extended), a rep is counted automatically.
Once you hit the required reps, the panel unlocks, shows a success message, and the timer restarts for the next break.

While the break is active, the panel is "sticky": if you close it or switch away, it re-opens / re-focuses itself (this is the "task cannot continue" enforcement). Turn that off with gymPushups.strictLock: false.

Try it

npm install
npm run compile

Then press F5 in VS Code to launch an Extension Development Host. To test without waiting for the timer, run Gym Pushups: Trigger Break Now from the Command Palette (or click the status-bar item).

Commands

Command	What it does
`Gym Pushups: Trigger Break Now`	Start a pushup break immediately
`Gym Pushups: Start / Restart Timer`	(Re)start the countdown
`Gym Pushups: Stop Timer`	Stop the countdown
`Gym Pushups: Reset Timer`	Reset the countdown

Settings

Setting	Default	Description
`gymPushups.enabled`	`true`	Enable the automatic timer
`gymPushups.intervalMinutes`	`45`	Minutes before a break triggers
`gymPushups.requiredPushups`	`10`	Reps required to unlock
`gymPushups.strictLock`	`true`	Re-open/re-focus the panel until reps are done

Notes & limitations

Camera: the panel uses getUserMedia inside a VS Code webview. If access is blocked, allow camera for VS Code in your OS privacy settings, then click Retry camera.
Model download: MoveNet is fetched once from a CDN (jsdelivr + Google storage), so the first break needs internet. Inference itself runs locally on your GPU/CPU.
Rep detection uses the elbow angle (shoulder→elbow→wrist). It's a heuristic — good lighting and a clear side view of one arm give the most reliable counts. Use Recalibrate if the rep state gets stuck.
VS Code extensions can't truly freeze the whole editor process; strictLock is the strongest enforcement the extension API allows (sticky, self-reopening panel + warnings).

Gym Pushups Break

Sanket Singh