Heyo, Zengineers ... Welcome back for an exciting ride through the technological fitness wonderland with Allen & Jesse, the founders of FitBod. What is FitBod, you might ask? Great question! It’s our favorite strength training app for iOS ... One that finally does so many things Adam’s been trying to find in workout software for years. FitBod leverages machine learning to customize workouts for you based on your own activity, your own body, and data from millions of workouts tracked thus far in the FitBod system.
We took Adam’s decades of experience as a competitive swimmer and former NCAA athlete and Brian’s professional status as activity master extraordinaire and gave FitBod a full afternoon together at the gym. It was a great experience, and the follow-on conversation with the FitBod founders was just as good.
In this episode, we meet Allen and Jesse, and talk a bit about how they ended up working together, their backgrounds, and how they’re focusing all of that on FitBod. Jesse: design and product - Allen: math, CS, and rugby. They run us through how the app works, their motivations in design, their plans for future integrations and some really cool big data applications for the fitness world.
We love the experience the FitBod team brings to their app, the perspective shifts they are encouraging with features like recovery state calculations, the positive attitudes they want to foster for everyone in the fitness community, and most of all, the fact that they refuse to build in a feature that lets you skip leg day!
Enjoy this episode, and give us a shout about anything fitness related on our website at https://www.zengineeringpodcast.com. And, as always, don’t forget to rate and review us on iTunes and support Zengineering on Patreon.
The FitBod App for iOS:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fitbod/id1041517543
The FitBod Website:
https://www.fitbod.me
080 - On a Life of Video Games
077 - with Tim Foad - On Economics, Technology, and Productivity
079 - with Patrick Mellor - On Earth’s History of Climate Change
078 - On Surviving In The Woods
076 - On Dragon Capsules, Space Trash, and VR Experiences
075 - with Paul Gambill of Nori - On The True Cost of Carbon and Reversing Climate Change
074 - with Jen Harris - On Identity
073 - On Working Remotely
072 - with Colin Murphy - On Universal Basic Income
071 - On The Complexities and Beauty of The Scientific Method
070 - with Dave McCarty - On Engineering Buildings and Exploring Fantastic Caves
069 - On The Solar System - Part 3 - Asteroids, Giants -- and Pluto
068 - with Nat Wyeth - On Fundraising and The Practice of Giving
067 - with Scott MacMullan - On That Peninsula Life and Running for Office in Annapolis MD
066 - On Stuff - Bikes
065 - On Stuff - Corrugated Cardboard
064 - with Christophe Jospe of Nori - On Climate Change - Part 4 - Reversing It
063 - On Learning Guitar and Pretending to Be a Rock Star
062 - On Terminators and Terminating Things
061 - On Drones - Part 2 - The Complexity of Not Bumping Into Things
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Insight Story: Tech Trends Unpacked
Zero-Shot
Fast Forward by Tomorrow Unlocked: Tech past, tech future
The Unbelivable Truth - Series 1 - 26 including specials and pilot
Lex Fridman Podcast