One person. One problem.
I grew up playing everything — cricket, football, a bit of rugby — and I was best at the things that needed strength. Shot put, discus. That never really left.
Adulthood was less consistent. Years of training, then years of nothing. I took up squash and got decent at it, good enough to join a club in Nottingham where Olympic players trained. Then I moved to America and drifted, and ended up around 210lb.
That’s when I found CrossFit and keto. The combination worked — I got down to 190 and got genuinely strong. It also cost me a meniscus repair, rotator cuff damage, bicep tendinitis, and both golfer’s and tennis elbow.
And to be honest, that wasn’t CrossFit’s fault. It was mine. I’m competitive, and I pushed hard in places I shouldn’t have, trying to progress faster than my body was willing to go. It was telling me the whole time that this wasn’t the right choice for me. I eventually listened, and my doctor agreed.
By then I was back up to 235lb with a lot of work to do, and I’d finally worked out that exercise and diet weren’t the whole picture. What I was missing was tracking, accountability, and knowing what my protocols were actually doing.
I tried running it on paper and across five different apps. It didn’t work. So I built a dashboard for myself — which became a website, which became this app.
Not willpower — visibility.
It solved my problem. That’s the whole reason it exists.
That’s my wife Sarah with me. She’s been in the beta since the first build, trains with it every week, and finds the things I miss — including a bug that would have lost people a workout. Built solo, but tested by people who’ll tell me the truth.