Alternate names for exercises

[IgnisDa]

Thanks for this really helpful project!

I am trying to port a workout dump that uses exercises from ExerciseDB. Since most of the exercises have a different name here, it is quite difficult to do so. I suggest we add a new key to each exercise called alternateNames: string[]. This will allow others users to port their own data to this dataset more easily.

I can make a PR for the same.

[yuhonas]

Hey, glad it's been helpful! sounds totally reasonable, My hope was that we could use a single canonical name but in the real world that's probably a little too much to ask for 😆 out of interest have you got some examples?

[IgnisDa]

I have added link to a dataset above, most exercises have a different name as to what this database has.

[yuhonas]

I see, happy for you to push up a PR!

[IgnisDa]

Hello. Sorry, I never was able to do it since it was taking too much effort. However, since then, I have created a mapping of around 200 exercises from exerciseDb to this project for my own project.

I have written down some instructions here. Maybe it will be helpful to someone!