Sunday, December 11, 2005

More Gym Log

I scoured around a bit for what else is out there and here's what I've found so far
  • http://workoutlog.com - a commercial web based logging utility that charges by the month. A coach feature that lets a trainer build workout plans and communicate with athletes. Logging for a variety of sports and health but offers fairly basic log detail. Most activities are logged only by time spent and a short description. For weight lifting this means the athlete enters the number of minutes spent doing weights in total and fills in a comment box for what activities he/she did. Seems to be targetted towards someone who is training for tri/decathalon.
  • BSDI Fitness Analyst - a large scale commercial application for testing fitness, medical screening, exercise programming. Intended for use in organizations, not home use. Ability to print reports in PDF. Very advanced and very expensive.
I'm not concerned about any of the competition out there as they seem to have very different focuses. A big part of what will make GymLog a success is it will be free to use and free to extend. GymLog will focus primarily on weight training and offer in depth statistics for weight training alone. It will also provide the opportunity for mobile devices to enter the picture for logging sessions at the gym and uploading them to the GymLog community.

My ideal name for this project is of course GymLog. Unfortunately gymlog.com is taken as a forwarding URL for MegaFitness. However gymlog.net/org etc are available so Iregistered .net. It's possible MegaFitness may be willing to sell gymlog.com too.

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