Overview
Working towards a fitness goal can be intimidating. Where do you start? How do you get there? How do you know you are making progress? Wearable fitness devices can track your activity, but how do you know whether that activity is in alignment with your goals?
This prompted me to spend time researching and designing PocketCoach, a self-coaching health and fitness app that helps users track their recurring health habits and activity, promotes accountability, and provides motivation while working towards a goal.
Problem
When working towards a fitness goal, common struggles many people face include lack of consistency, no accountability, suboptimal measures of progress, impatience, and discouragement.
Many people track some of their health and fitness data in one way or another, however the data is scattered across many apps which leads to inconsistency and disorganization.
Not tracking information correctly or consistently, and not acknowledging small progress wins leads to discouragement, frustration, and confusion, which ultimately leads to failure.
Solution
Working towards healthy habits and activity on a daily or weekly basis is more manageable than focusing on the longer term end goal. Completing these smaller, more immediate actions, consistently is the key to building a healthy lifestyle and achieving that bigger end goal. That is where the idea of PocketCoach was conceived.
PocketCoach allows users to set and track their recurring health and fitness habits, consolidates all health and fitness data in one place, encourages accountability towards habit goals, and recognizes achievements, progress, and small wins.
