I recently took part in a group ice-breaker, “App & App”, that asked each of us to name our favorite appetizer, and favorite application. I went extremely high-brow with steak tartar (sp?) and Hoopla, but most people went with some iteration of breadsticks and social media. In fact, of the sixty-some-odd apps mentioned, only MyFitnessPal and Strava appeared from the fitness category. While we love to count our likes and friends, fitness can be more difficult to quantify, and therefore less available to the end-user. Resistance training, in particular, presents unqiue challenges around data-capture that to-date wearables and smart equipment has only partially solved.

As a self-described jock who codes, I was not satisfied by the apps named in our ice-breaker, and set about to build my own fitness tracker, a CLI focused on helping resistance trainers (read: other jocks) better understand their performance, and strategize based on effectively-captured data.