Introduction to FiVi My Workouts

In this new age of Web 2.0 and social media paradigm changers, user generated content and the ability to find information that is specific to you is all the rage…but limitations on technology have made it difficult to provide this for working out and training.  The reason being is that there are so many variables that can go into a workout, the logic needed to build something that would allow anyone to create a workout, that can be shared, logged with a few clicks, and shared is mind boggling.  Until now that is and we at FiVi.com feel very confident that we have designed by far the most powerful logging and tracking tool for fitness and activity in the world.  It’s a bold statement, but keep reading and I’ll explain why I feel so comfortable making that assertion and then continue reading to see some of my predictions.

My Workout Book

This page is part of your profile in FiVi.com.  Here you can keep a list of all the workouts you’ve created or added to your collection.  It’s just like My Routes, except instead of a collection of maps that you can log, each profile card opens up to a Workout that you can log with just a few clicks.  We encourage you to share your Workout Book with friends and to borrow best practices from each other.  You can skim through your workouts and search by level or via tags.  Click a workout and a preview shows a description and link to whomever is the author.

Workout Creation Wizard

The most powerful workout modeler in just four easy steps.

Step 1: Give your workout a name, description, and add some tags so that people who are searching for new workouts can find it and share your workout with others.

Step 2: Define the goal of the workout.  Most workouts will be covered by option 1 where each exercise listed has it’s own target and goal that you measure.  But with the recent trend in cross-functional training and circuit training, we’ve added 2 more options.  Select option 2 if your workout entails doing a loop of all the exercises you have listed in a pre-defined amount of time.  For example: 5 pull ups, 5 push ups, 5 sit ups – do this loop as many times as you can in 15 mins.  Select option 3 if it’s the other way around.  For example: 5 pull ups, 5 push ups, 5 sit ups – do 10 loops of this in as little time as possible.

Step 3: Now add exercises.  The best way to describe how to do this is via a video tutorial…so click here.  But if you can’t do a video now, you can add as many exercises as you want to this workout.  If you can’t find the exercise you are looking for from the drop down menu, then just “add a new exercise” and associate it with the most similar exercise.  Your new exercise is saved to your profile so you can add it to other workouts you create.  And to show you how powerful this modeling tool is look at a sample of the different variables you can specify: time, reps, distance, weight, % of max, % of body weight, laps, rest period, and there’s more.  Finally, if there are any pictures you want to add for each exercise, that’s easy too.

Step 4: Now just set who can see this workout.  You can either share it with the world, your network, or just one person.

Log a Workout

When you or anyone opens up the URL for a workout created in FiVi, they are taken to the Log Workout view.  Here they’ll see a form where each exercise is pre-populated with the targets (reps, weight, time, etc) defined when the workout was created.  Users can tweak the values with exactly what they did, skip the exercises they didn’t do, and add any exercise that they may have done not listed in the original workout (we encourage creativity).  Some exercises will require input before you can log the workout, like enter how many reps you did @90% of max.  But once all the fields are filled just hit “Log workout” and everything has been saved to your profile.  Just like that!

Open Source Workout Collaboration

I predict that this is going to bring about a new revolution in fitness.  Today, most workouts are in journals, notebooks, posts on blogs, magazines, etc.  But for the first time ever, with this new FiVi capability each workout is a living breathing entity that can be emailed, posted on blogs, listed on Twitter, exchanged via FiVi, and wherever a URL can go so can your workout.  A few clicks and it’s logged, safely and securely on our servers.  People now have a way to share workouts, compare notes, and actually measure the outcome all online all digitally.  May the most innovative workouts be rewarded for the most downloads and happiest user community.

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