Keep Moving Forward

I hope this pops off 🚀.

The beginning

I’ve always been into lifting for strength and aesthetics since I was younger. One thing about fitness is that it’s like a journey. It’s not just a straight line up. Sometimes you’re moving up but we all have some dips here and there. Sometimes its just a flatline for a long time. I know for me there were periods where I didn’t lift. To be honest, most of the times I didn’t even have access to a commercial gym - most my gains were made in our family’s basement using some rusty - but trusty equipment.

One thing I wished I had done before, was tracking my progress over time. I always had some random pictures and recordings jotted down somewhere in my brain or some notes. But this is super inconvenient and a bit unorganized. I’ve used apps like MyFitnessPal to track my body’s progress. It’s great for taking progress of your diet, but for your physique, there were some shortcomings.

The idea

So MyFitnessPal and other apps I looked at didn’t have an easy way to compare different types of “poses”. I like to see how my body changes in different angles, and it just did not support that at the time (or now as of this writing). Another big thing was I could not figure out how to export data easily. I wanted it so you can easily take your pictures out and save them somewhere else so you can create some transformation video or something. The first version of this app will not have this feature but it’s on the list of features I will be working on.

So I’m a software engineer and my hobby is lifting, why not just combine this and build something? I’ve seen other apps made for stuff like this but it’s like a “do you even lift” moment when I saw their apps. If I can turn a hobby (scratching my own itch, as they call it), into a business, that would be awesome..and so this is the beginning.