Fitbod alternatives

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Each opens with the prompt loaded and waiting — nothing is sent until you press enter. It is copied at the same time, in case the app is not installed.

Build me a local gym workout planner I own, to replace Fitbod.

- A web app I run on my own machine: a single Node process serving one page, data in a SQLite file next to it.
- Model it properly: exercises, muscle groups, and an exercise-to-muscle table with a weighting, because a bench press is mostly chest and partly triceps. Then sessions, and a row per set with reps and weight.
- Seed exercises from a CSV of a hundred movements with their equipment and weightings.
- Recovery per muscle group is derived from the set rows, not stored: weighted volume over recent days against a decay curve of about three days back to fresh. Expose the number.
- Generate a session: rank muscle groups by recovery, pick four or five exercises for the top two or three from the equipment I own, using fewer rather than repeating.
- Weight suggestions from an estimated one-rep max per lift, Epley off my best recent set, progressing when I hit every set at target reps.
- Reports: weekly volume per muscle group and estimated one-rep max over time.
- One command to export every set to CSV, one to back up the SQLite file.
- Binds to localhost only. No accounts, no telemetry, no network calls at all.
- Skip: filmed demonstrations, and Apple Health or watch sync. Both need something an app store ships.
- Include a README with setup, the seed CSV format, and where the database lives.

## Look and feel

Fitbod's own, and it is dark: a near-black ground with cards only a shade lighter, white type, grey for anything secondary.

The accent is a hot pink-red, and it is the only bright thing on the screen. It is the Start Workout button, the plus beside a section heading, the active tab, the dot beside the running timer. A muted teal is the second colour and it means done — the "4/4 logged" under an exercise, the tick on a finished one, the easy end of a scale.

Headings are italic and bold, which is the app's signature: "Target Muscles", "9 Exercises", the timer itself. Buttons carry the same italic.

Under the title sits a row of dark filter pills with chevrons — a duration, a muscle filter, equipment — that scrolls sideways.

An exercise is a row, not a card: a small photograph of the movement on the left, the name in white bold, then the numbers under it in grey as one line reading "3 sets · 6 reps · 12 kg", and an ellipsis at the right. Rows are dense and close together.

Start Workout is a pink rounded button that floats over the list at the bottom right rather than spanning the width. The bottom bar has three slots — Workout, Body, Log — and the active one is pink.