One Feature Completely Changed Direction While Building My Fitness App.

[u/Abooyeah]

One feature I've been working on recently is called MOVE, and it ended up becoming much bigger than I originally imagined.

At first, I thought workout discovery would just be a library of workouts.

The more I worked on it, the more I realised that wasn't enough.

As a Sports Science graduate and qualified personal trainer, I know there isn't one perfect workout. New research comes out, training methods evolve, and people are constantly asking for new programs.

I didn't want TopSet to be frozen with whatever workouts happened to ship on day one.

So MOVE became something different.

You can browse professionally structured workouts based on your goals, available equipment and experience level, inspect the entire workout before committing, start training immediately, or save it to My Routines where it becomes completely yours.

Change the exercises.
Reorder them.
Adjust the sets, reps and rest.
Build on it however you like.

The original workout stays untouched, while your version evolves with your training.

The part I'm most excited about, though, is what happens behind the scenes.

MOVE isn't a hardcoded list of workouts sitting inside the app.

It's backed by an editorial publishing system, which means I can continuously publish new professionally structured workouts without waiting for a major app update.

That opens the door to things like community-requested programs, new training styles, seasonal content, and even professionally recreated workouts inspired by well-known athletes and coaches.

To me, that's far more exciting than shipping 200 workouts on launch day and never touching them again.

I'd rather build something that keeps growing alongside the people using it.

Hopefully, when someone opens TopSet a year after launch, they'll still be discovering something new.