My Gym

Project Type
Individual

Timeline
Feb 2019 - May 2019

Tool
Figma, Adobe Illustrator

Advisors
Miguel Cardona

01 Concept

For the current fitness environment, research the fitness process, including how to arrange the fitness plan, how to communicate with the trainer. I try to add new technology into the traditional industry by designing a product that can help users exercise more scientifically and effectively.

Prompt

There is a lack of effective communication between fitness people and gyms and coaches.

Problems

How to record the training data while exercising?
How to make the contact between trainers and clients better?
How to create a more flexible way to make an exercise plan?

Solution

My Gym is a fitness data tracking system connected with gym equipment. It is designed to record exercise data information between gym and users, which can help users exercise more efficient and communicate with their tutors easily.

02 Showcase

Phone

Mobile phone application is for collecting workout information, making workout plan and generate workout data dashboard.

Information Collection - Body

Collect information of new users, such as gender, age, height and weight.
Generate accounts for them with body information.

Information Collection - Fitness

Collect more fitness information for new users.
Clarify their exercise goal.
Connect to their gym and coach if they have.

Dashboard

Home page includes daily exercise data summary, year summary and future plans.
Each exercise have their own tracking history records.

Profile

Users profile shows users' fitness information based on the register questions.
Also, they can track their body data changing.

Create a Plan

Users can create very detailed exercise plans including estimate time, estimate calories and alarm.

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To-do list help them collect items for future training during daily browsing, making planning easier and more convenient.

Instructional Video

Instructional videos allow users exercise by following intruction. Make their exercise easier and more professional.

Exercise Mode

Users can choose exercise mode while wokingout.
Their phone will record their body information, like heart rate and burning calories.

Watch

Watch application is for collecting workout data while exercising. It reflects plans that users created on phone app. It can also connect to gym and specific equipment.

Simple data feedback on watch device.
Allow users to view them quickly.

The content of the data can also change depending on whether the equipment is connected or not.
More specific data can be collected for exercise that needs to be connected to the equipment.
And only basic data such as heartbeat can be collected for exercise that do not need equipment.

Gym-Tablet

Gym tablet with “Mygym” function will collect information for phone app.

TV app is for watching instructional videos and working out at home.

03 Research & Analysis

a. Data Analysis

Resources from 2018 Participation Report

Participation trends

Fitness sports continues to have the highest participation rates.

Inactivity by age

Among people over 18 years old, people aged 18 to 44 years old are activity.

b. Existing System Analysis

Exercise Training Program by Personal Trainer James Whelan, used with permission.

Findings for existing training system

Trainees might have own things conflicted with the plan schedule. Sometimes they need a plan B or a more flexible schedule.
Each training program has different action points. We usually regulate our movements by watching instructional videos.
This training plan PDF does not give the required time. Trainees can not make a reasonable schedule according to the plan.
In a scientific training plan, relative data records are required such as heart rate and burning calories. You need a record of changes in data and feedback from your tutor.

c. On-the-spot Investigation

RIT Gym - User Map

Step1: swiping ID card to go into gym
Step2: go downstairs
Step3: borrow a locker and go into the dressing room
Step4: enter workout area
Step5: asking in information desk
Step6: start workout

What I found in RIT gym?

The equipments in the gym can test the physical body data in real time, such as heart rate.
Some equipments have electronic screens, and gyms have televisions playing video.
Students can make an appointment with trainers online.

d. Interview

How often you work out for a week? And how long for each time?
How do you learn when you first start working out? And do you need to watch tutorials while working out? How?
Do you have a fitness plan? How do you make it?
How do you record the relevant data? And what kind of data would you record?
What equipments you commonly use?

Summary
Background checks show that fitness is still a big part of people life. Fitness coaches and gyms offer teaching sessions to help enthusiasts make their plans more scientifically. For this part, we can design a product to optimize the existing training mode and help both for trainers and trainees to transmit workout information and record data more efficiently.

04 Define & Ideation

a. Problems

How to record the training data while exercising?
How to make the contact between trainers and clients better?
How to create a more flexible way to make an exercise plan?

b. User Defination

The Amateur Users

“I can do the exercise by myself through watching tutorials.”

Amateur users usually learn how to work out by watching tutorials. They do not need or seldom need professional coaches’ guidance. They have their own goals, such as losing weight. They don’t have very detailed training plans and schedules to follow. And they tend to do workout in their free time.

Relative Professional Users

““I want to get professional guidance but I’m not a athlete.”

This group is somehow between amateurs and professionals. They want to have a scientific and systematic fitness training but distinguish it from the intensity training of athletes. They often choose private tutors to help them make plans and train them. They will have stronger and more specific goals, such as getting in good shape through fitness. They are willing to follow a systematic training schedule and program, and workout is more like taking a class for them.