u/IcyRazzmatazz9466

Image 1 — Built this thing for my nephew who kept failing his training. He finally stuck with it for 2 months.
Image 2 — Built this thing for my nephew who kept failing his training. He finally stuck with it for 2 months.
Image 3 — Built this thing for my nephew who kept failing his training. He finally stuck with it for 2 months.
Image 4 — Built this thing for my nephew who kept failing his training. He finally stuck with it for 2 months.
Image 5 — Built this thing for my nephew who kept failing his training. He finally stuck with it for 2 months.
Image 6 — Built this thing for my nephew who kept failing his training. He finally stuck with it for 2 months.
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Built this thing for my nephew who kept failing his training. He finally stuck with it for 2 months.

So my nephew is a sales guy and basically lives out of suitcases. Client dinners, too much booze, zero sleep. The typical "unhealthy sales guy" routine. I’m an old strength coach, but honestly every plan I ever gave him just fell apart the second his life got busy. It was pretty frustrating for both of us.

I eventually realized that standard training plans are just too rigid for people with messy lives. So I spent the last few months messing around with some code to build this thing called Dorsi.

I basically made it react to whatever’s going on with him that day. Like if he’s in some random hotel with no gym, I have the app just throw him a bodyweight session on the fly. Or if he texts me saying he’s slammed and only has 15 mins between meetings, it cuts everything down to a "minimum dose" just so he does something. I even added a mode for when he's feeling like total crap or hungover. It starts with something ridiculously easy just to get him moving, and usually he ends up doing the whole thing anyway.

He’s been testing it for 2 months and he’s actually down 5kg. The weight is cool, but I’m honestly just shocked he didn’t quit after the first two weeks like he usually does.

Anyway the app is still kind of a work in progress and the UI is definitely not perfect, but I'm looking for a few more people to try the beta and tell me what’s broken. It's free, and if you actually end up using it (like 5+ Apple Watch workouts), I'll just give you a lifetime "founder" account or whatever for free later on.

If anyone wants to try it, let me know and I can send you a link.

u/IcyRazzmatazz9466 — 2 hours ago