Gymxiety

Inspiration

Brainstorming for this project, one of our group members brought up her fear of going to UC Davis’ gym, the ARC. The ARC’s busy environment and intimidating persona often leads to hesitation and scares many students out of going entirely. Combined with the numerous intricate machines, and minimal instructions or a how-to guide on how to get started, the idea of looking like you don’t know what you’re doing is a crippling fear.

What it does

In order to address this, our interface is specifically designed to help users get started in the gym by giving them tailored exercises/workouts on the things they want to work on, such as cardio, core, upper and lower body, or even full body! Along with this, the exercise options give catered instructions on how to operate the machines, as well as their locations, so users can be confident in every step of the way!

How we built it

To begin, we created a LOFI design of our interface website for a basic outline and thus began researching information on workouts that target different areas of the body and the corresponding gym machinery. From there, we found a dataset that addresses how exercise relates to physical health and conducted an ANOVA hypothesis test to see if BMI varies for people throughout different age groups.

Challenges we ran into

One thing that challenged us was learning front-end development to operate in an efficient way as well as expanding our repertoire of tools to accommodate for all the ideas we wanted to get down and working.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

For many of us, this was the first user-web interface we created from scratch. In order to do this, we adapted to learning a lot of new skills such as HTML, CSS, front-end web development, and more which was fulfilling to learn in action and apply in real time. Moreover, we’re all extremely proud to have completed our first hackathon!

What we learned

Learned how to use new technologies that we hadn’t known before and how to collaborate on one central idea that we could implement within 24 hours.

What's next for Gymxiety

Looking to the future, we hope to develop a more nuanced user-interface and develop a better user experience by developing a backend and possibly user authentication.