Fitness Finder

Overview

Fitness Finder is a website that UH students can use to find fitness-related activities as well as workout buddies in their area. Whether you are a beginner or a pro, Fitness Finder allows you to broaden your fitness horizons. The main focus of this website is to be able to create a community of students who are interested in furthering their fitness journeys and provide a safe space for them to connect with one another. Starting with creating a profile, users can list their skill level, fitness-related interests, general location, a picture of themselves, as well as any additional details they might feel the need to include. Once their profile is created, Users can create a group for a specific workout session or activity, post to existing groups, or scroll through groups they are interested in. From swimming to roller skating, users have the option of leaving their comfort zone and trying out something new, or honing the skills they already have with others.

Contributions

For this project, we had 3 milestones that we had to complete before ending up with the end product. For the first milestone I had to same some sample template pages most notably the Find a session and add a session pages.

For Milestone 2, I continued to work on the pages as well as start to add functionality to the pages. For example, adding more text fields into the add session forms to allow users to give more detailed information about the session, and adding a join session button in the find a session page that users can use to join sessions.

And finally Milestone 3, With all the functionality and pages now done from the previous two milestones all there was left to do was to fill the pages with “real” information. Which is what I had to do for the Find a session Page.

My Experience

Overall the experience in creating this web application was really fun and I really enjoyed doing it. There was a lot I still have to learn when it comes to making these types of applications, as well as working with other people for a big project like this. There were some problems that we had like some scheduling problems, especially because a group member just had a baby just as we started the project, but we managed to work them out and create this project that we are all proud of.

The Fitness Finder Home Page can be found here