I entered September 2022 with some basic ideas of how I wanted the new user flow to look. Diet is pivotal to fitness so I wanted the diet tracking screen to be the Home screen of the app. From there I wanted exercise to be a different parent page from the Home screen.

For diet I still wanted to keep the calories and macros progress the main feature on the home screen so a user can open the app and see their progress at a glance at any time. For practicality, a bar for visual progress did not seem to provide the best UI so I decided to go with a circular progress element, sort of like a pie chart. I wanted macros to update either individually or collectively based on the user’s choice.

One of the problems I ran into was how could users quickly input calories and macros for foods they eat frequently. That’s when I figured that there needs to be “saved” meals that users frequently eat to expedite calories and macros input. I didn’t want to use the word “meal” because not all foods are meals, sometimes it is a snack not a meal per say or a user might not consider a protein shake as a meal and confuse the user as to whether inputting the nutrition values is justified. 

For exercise I wanted to allow users to select from a list of exercises they’ve created then be able to quickly add sets, reps and weight for that respective exercises with the least amount of taps, scrolling, and inputs possible. When doing an exercise in the gym you usually perform one set at a time so to bypass one more input by the user the default input for sets completed would be one (1) with the ability to change to other numbers if desired.

In addition to the set-by-set completion of an exercise, I wanted to include a rest period timer that would start after a set is completed. These rest periods vary by user so I would need to allow the user to increase or decrease the time but have a default rest period. That is when I figured that there needs to be a workout setup process before the actual workout began.

In this workout setup the user could select from a list of custom saved exercises that they could select all that apply then select their rest period. I would also like for the workout to have a name so the user could review their weekly progress and have workout names they could refer to rather than scan through all the exercises they did, i.e. it’s easier to denote what a chest day is rather than seeing a list of chest related exercises.

To shorten the time-to-workout and enable organization for the user, I wanted to add “routines”. These routines would be collections of the saved exercises that the user already created. It would also allow a saved exercise to be used in multiple routines. I also decided that there could be a default rest period for each routine, further expediting the user’s time-to-workout.

Another feature I wanted to add was a supplement tracker. The idea comes from the times when I wonder if I overshot my caffeine limit for the day and if I had taken my dietary vitamins. I’m a natural bodybuilder (a natty in gym talk) but not all bodybuilders are natural and take performance enhancers drugs. Some of these PEDs are harmful so it is important to know the dosage and time of administration, so having a supplement tracker could have the potential of preventing a hospitalization or even worse. For this supplement tracker I want the user to create their saved supplements with dosage. When the user taps on the supplement in the tracker then the icon and typography would turn gray and move to the bottom of the list and show how long ago the last dosage was taken.

The last feature I wanted to include was a weight tracker, for body weight in pounds. This feature would be a simple line graph chart that accounted for day and pounds.

After all these features were developed the app submitted to the App Store and Play Store in January 2023.