Workouts
Strength training for fat loss: keep muscle while you cut
Strength training for fat loss preserves muscle in a calorie deficit. Learn how to train, track your lifts, eat enough protein and set realistic expectations.
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Guides on workouts, food, habits, and weight - written for people who want one consistent routine, not four apps and a spreadsheet.
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Workouts
Strength training for fat loss preserves muscle in a calorie deficit. Learn how to train, track your lifts, eat enough protein and set realistic expectations.
Progress & reviews
A weekly fitness review takes 10 minutes and beats any tracking app feature. Here is the exact template for training, food, habits, and weight - plus how to change one thing at a time.
Weight tracking
Learn how to read your weight trend: use weekly averages, watch the rolling 4-week direction, tell noise from signal, and know what trend to expect for your goal.
Nutrition
Learn to log food fast with barcode scanning, saved meals and recipes, copying days, and logging your staples once. Speed is what makes food tracking stick.
Habits
Fitness goal setting that lasts: focus on process over outcome, set minimum standards, track the inputs you control, review weekly, and restart fast after a slip.
Product updates
The founder story behind Go Gym - why a data-obsessed developer got sick of juggling four fitness apps and built one UK-made all-in-one tracker that never paywalls your own data.
Product updates
Go Gym is out now on iPhone and Android in the UK. What it does, what it costs, and a proper thank you to the beta testers who shaped it.
Nutrition
How to set macros for muscle gain: a slight calorie surplus, protein at 1.6-2.2 g/kg, carbs for training, a sensible lean-bulk rate, and the trends to watch.
Comparisons
Free vs paid fitness apps, weighed up for UK users: what is genuinely worth paying for, how paywall creep works in big apps, and how to choose a tracker without overspending.
Habits
Building a gym habit on a busy schedule is about consistency, not intensity. Fixed days, short sessions, habit stacking, and tracking attendance over perfection - the realistic playbook.
Weight loss
Breaking a weight loss plateau starts with proving it is real. A step-by-step checklist to rule out water and logging drift, then decide whether to cut calories, add steps, or take a diet break.
Nutrition
Calorie counting vs macros explained in plain English: what each one means, when each makes sense, and why most beginners should master calories and protein before anything else.
Habits
Learn how to stay consistent with fitness on holiday: set minimum standards, aim for maintenance, walk daily, eat protein-first, and restart cleanly on return.
Habits
Tracking water, sleep and steps is the quiet engine behind fat loss, recovery and energy. Here are simple daily targets and a low-friction way to track all three.
Comparisons
Looking for a fitness app with no subscription in the UK? Which features should be free, how paywalls creep in, and what to look for in a free tracker.
Weight tracking
Tracking fat loss without the scale: why weight alone misleads, what to measure (waist, hips, chest, thighs), progress photos and how often to check.
Nutrition
How much protein to lose fat without losing muscle: target ranges in g/kg, why it matters in a deficit, per-meal timing, and cheap, easy UK protein sources.
Comparisons
Tired of three separate fitness apps? The case to replace MyFitnessPal and Strong with one tracker for food, training and habits, saving money and context.
Nutrition
Work out how many calories to eat to lose weight: how to estimate your maintenance (TDEE), set a sensible deficit, and find your real numbers from your own data.
Habits
How to use habit stacking to build fitness habits that last - attach new habits to routines you already have, start tiny, and track them so they hold under pressure.
Weight-loss leagues
A practical guide for MAN v FAT Football players: how to track your weekly weigh-ins, understand percentage weight loss and milestones, and use your food log to win points.
Beginners
New to fitness tracking? A simple, no-overwhelm plan for your first week - what to track, what to skip, and how to build a routine that lasts beyond the motivated start.
Workouts
Padel is booming across the UK - and it turns out to be genuinely good exercise. The cardio, agility, and coordination benefits, how demanding it really is, and how to track padel as part of your training.
Workouts
A simple system for tracking workouts and gym progress: what to log, how to use progressive overload, and why a clean training log beats a feature-bloated app.
Comparisons
Looking for a MyFitnessPal alternative in the UK? Here's what to look for in a free calorie counter, the features that actually matter, and how an all-in-one tracker compares.
Product updates
Go Gym is moving from alpha to beta. Here's what beta testing means, how alpha and beta testing make the app better, and what feedback we're looking for from testers.
Nutrition
How to count calories and track macros without obsession - what calories and protein actually do, two practical methods, common mistakes, and a weekly rule that keeps nutrition simple.
Habits
Sleep, steps, protein, training frequency, and hydration - the five fitness habits worth tracking, how to set minimum standards, use streaks wisely, and reset each week without guilt.
Habits
Motivation fades. A simple gym routine, minimum standards, and habit tracking beat willpower every time - how to build gym consistency that survives busy weeks and bad days.
All-in-one
A simple weekly routine for tracking workouts, food, habits, and weight in one place - the four pillars that matter, a 10-minute check-in template, and the metrics to ignore.
Weight tracking
A practical UK guide to tracking weight-loss progress: why daily weigh-ins mislead you, how to use weekly averages, how much to lose per week, and exactly when to change your plan.
Product updates
Go Gym has entered alpha testing with a small group of users. Here's what the alpha stage means, why early testing matters, and how you can get involved.
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