PERSONAL PROJECT / COGNITION · SOFTWARE · TRAINING
What if a workout challenged your memory as deliberately as your body? KickboxWM pairs kickboxing-style intervals with delayed-recall cues: remember an earlier instruction, resist reacting to the newest one, and keep moving. A personal experiment exploring whether physical and cognitive practice could reinforce each other.
Try the live applicationWHY I BUILT IT
I wanted a workout that challenged memory and deliberate action alongside physical effort. Could recalling an earlier movement cue while exercising make cognitive practice part of the workout itself?
DESIGN DECISIONS
PROTOTYPE PURPOSE
Hear a new cue, hold it in memory, and execute the movement from N cues earlier. The prototype makes this idea tangible, with adjustable pacing and memory load to explore the balance between thinking and moving.
CONTEXT & SCOPE
An exploratory prototype supported by a theoretical rationale. No controlled study or measured results for this combined protocol have been supplied; the app is a way to explore the idea, not evidence that it improves cognition.
THE EXPERIMENT
My hypothesis is that physical effort and working-memory practice might reinforce each other when they happen together. The prototype lets me explore that possibility; establishing a benefit would require a separate study.
A spoken number maps to a movement. Instead of executing the newest cue, recall and perform the movement from N cues earlier while keeping track of the incoming sequence.
A practical setting to explore cue pacing, memory load, and work/rest timing. The supporting document describes the rationale and proposed protocol; it does not report experimental results.
A future comparison could separate combined, sequential, and single-task conditions, measuring task performance and adherence. Better performance on the practiced task would need to be distinguished from broader transfer.