What would the perfect fitness app look like ? 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 . 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 . And while it's for everyone , my goal is that anyone can use it . 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 . It's just who I identify with , being a man in my 40s myself . Now I'm not just talking about another workout tracker , another food logger .
Speaker 0There'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 . 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 . I want you to imagine some of these things that could happen . Tracking both your nutrition and workouts in one place , for example , doesn't really happen , outside of a few niche areas . I think RP does that , but it's very I'll say very constrained in terms of how it works . 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 . Giving you feedback on your form just based on a video or photo , in real time using AI based on the principles of lifting .
Speaker 0Adjusting your next steps on the fly , whether you're coming up on a deload or test week , you are not recovering well . You had had a rough night of sleep and it's integrating your Apple Health or Google Health data . 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 . I have high standards and I would want an app that I would use myself . Now , as far as ideas from the community , in our Facebook group we have Scott who said , hey , nutrition and workouts should be together . Like , why aren't they together by now ? Jazz mentioned hydration tracking right , there's lots of little things related to nutrition that don't get tracked really well but are important . Nikki suggested that your daily workouts or training have advice tailored to you , your current level and adapt with you . You know , built in progressive overload . 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 .
Speaker 0I've also been reading Reddit and a bunch of forums online and the same frustrations keep coming up . Most apps are too rigid , too generic , too siloed
. They do one thing decently , but they don't talk to each other . They don't adapt to you like they should , and it's still a lot of work to use them . Plus , you have to use 10 different apps , and that's the gap that I want to fill .
Speaker 0So let me ask you if you could design the perfect fitness app . What would it do ? What are the features or frustrations that matter most to you ? Go to witsandweightscom slash question and share your ideas with me . 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 . Witsandweightscom slash question . The link is also in the show notes because if we get this right , guys , this will not just be another app . It's going to be a coach , a training partner , your data analyst , your podcast host all together , all in one . Go to witsandweightscom slash question and send me your ideas . Can't wait to hear them .