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Is THIS the Perfect Fitness App? | Bonus · Wits & Weights | Strength & Fat Loss Over 40

• 0:00
  Speaker 0: What would the perfect fitness app look like?
• 0:02
  Speaker 0: I've been thinking about this a lot because I am in the early stages of developing an AI-driven app built on my coaching philosophy and this very podcast.
• 0:13
  Speaker 0: The idea is that it will adapt dynamically to your training, nutrition, lifestyle, biofeedback everything going on in real time, so your plan evolves with you, not just once every few months or weeks or even days, but potentially as you go.
• 0:32
  Speaker 0: And while it's for everyone, my goal is that anyone can use it.
• 0:36
  Speaker 0: The goal here is to make it the number one fitness app for people in their 40s and 50s, where getting leaner, stronger and healthier does mean everything, but the margin for error gets smaller as we get into our 40s, 50s and beyond and the demands of life get bigger.
• 0:52
  Speaker 0: It's just who I identify with, being a man in my 40s myself.
• 0:56
  Speaker 0: Now I'm not just talking about another workout tracker, another food logger.
• 1:01
  Speaker 0: There's a lot of great apps out there, like Strong for workouts or Boost Camp or, of course, macrofactor for nutrition and even they're coming out with a workout app soon and they cover a lot of the bases right, and some of them are getting smarter as well and dynamic.
• 1:13
  Speaker 0: What I'm talking about is something that merges all of those worlds together and really pushes beyond them in a new way that I don't see in the app store today.
• 1:22
  Speaker 0: I want you to imagine some of these things that could happen.
• 1:25
  Speaker 0: Tracking both your nutrition and workouts in one place, for example, doesn't really happen, outside of a few niche areas.
• 1:31
  Speaker 0: I think RP does that, but it's very I'll say very constrained in terms of how it works.
• 1:37
  Speaker 0: Estimating your daily energy expenditure we know Macrofactor does that well, but I believe that can be done at a very high level in other ways as well.
• 1:46
  Speaker 0: Giving you feedback on your form just based on a video or photo, in real time using AI based on the principles of lifting.
• 1:54
  Speaker 0: Adjusting your next steps on the fly, whether you're coming up on a deload or test week, you are not recovering well.
• 2:00
  Speaker 0: You had had a rough night of sleep and it's integrating your Apple Health or Google Health data.
• 2:04
  Speaker 0: Recovering well, you had had a rough night of sleep and it's integrating your Apple Health or Google Health data, and you know the sky's the limit about how this can happen, but the technology is there and I'm partnered with someone who is going to help me make that happen, and if you know me at all, you know that I have.
• 2:16
  Speaker 0: I have high standards and I would want an app that I would use myself.
• 2:18
  Speaker 0: Now, as far as ideas from the community, in our Facebook group we have Scott who said, hey, nutrition and workouts should be together.
• 2:27
  Speaker 0: Like, why aren't they together by now?
• 2:28
  Speaker 0: Jazz mentioned hydration tracking right, there's lots of little things related to nutrition that don't get tracked really well but are important.
• 2:34
  Speaker 0: Nikki suggested that your daily workouts or training have advice tailored to you, your current level and adapt with you.
• 2:42
  Speaker 0: You know, built in progressive overload.
• 2:44
  Speaker 0: And then Tony had a big one, and that is combining the equivalent of Macrofactor's adaptive nutrition algorithm or maybe he meant the algorithm itself or something like it with periodized strength programming, so having your workouts adjust based on your nutrition as well.
• 3:00
  Speaker 0: I've also been reading Reddit and a bunch of forums online and the same frustrations keep coming up.
• 3:06
  Speaker 0: Most apps are too rigid, too generic, too siloed.
• 3:10
  Speaker 0: They do one thing decently, but they don't talk to each other.
• 3:13
  Speaker 0: They don't adapt to you like they should, and it's still a lot of work to use them.
• 3:17
  Speaker 0: Plus, you have to use 10 different apps, and that's the gap that I want to fill.
• 3:21
  Speaker 0: So let me ask you if you could design the perfect fitness app.
• 3:24
  Speaker 0: What would it do?
• 3:26
  Speaker 0: What are the features or frustrations that matter most to you?
• 3:30
  Speaker 0: Go to witsandweightscom slash question and share your ideas with me.
• 3:35
  Speaker 0: Big, small, practical, crazy out there, I don't care, because you're gonna be surprised at what is possible with the technology that I'm building this app on, and I want to hear your idea, I don't care how insane it is.
• 3:46
  Speaker 0: Witsandweightscom slash question.
• 3:49
  Speaker 0: The link is also in the show notes because if we get this right, guys, this will not just be another app.
• 3:54
  Speaker 0: It's going to be a coach, a training partner, your data analyst, your podcast host all together, all in one.
• 4:01
  Speaker 0: Go to witsandweightscom slash question and send me your ideas.
• 4:05
  Speaker 0: Can't wait to hear them.