The fitness goal app to set, track and share your sports goals

How does Bemelio help you reach your fitness goals?

Bemelio is a free mobile app for iPhone and Android. For sport, you start in the Sport & Fitness category, then pick the subcategory that matches what you do: running, strength training, cycling, swimming, dance, football, basketball, racket sports, combat sports, yoga and Pilates, hiking and trail, climbing, water sports, winter sports and more. The app suggests example goals so you never start from a blank page.

You give your goal a clear title, like Run 5 km without stopping or Do 20 pull-ups, and you decide whether it is public or private. From there, you break it into steps, post updates when you make progress and use the tracking tools that come with your sport. Everything about that goal lives in one place, from the first session to the last.

• Choose your sport from a wide range of subcategories
• Start from example goals suggested by the app
• Keep your goal public or private
• Break it into steps you can tick off
• Use tracking tools built for your sport

How do you track your fitness progress, session after session?

Big sports goals feel lighter once they are split up. With steps, you turn Train for a half marathon into smaller milestones you tick off one by one. Each ticked step shows you how far you have already come, and what comes next.

Every time you move forward, you post an update on your goal: a few words, a photo or a video. A new distance, a cleaner technique, a tough session you finished anyway. Put together, your updates tell the story of your progress from start to finish, and you can scroll back through it whenever you want.

Depending on your subcategory, your goal also comes with built-in tracking tools. Many of them let you post your session as an update, with a card showing your real numbers. That way your progress is based on what you actually did, not on a vague feeling.

• Steps to tick off as you reach milestones
• Updates with text, photo or video
• Session timer with your history
• A streak that grows each day you move forward
• Sport-specific logs for running, lifting, riding, swimming and more

Why train toward your goal with other people?

On Bemelio, you follow people and see their updates in your feed. You can react and comment on their progress, and they can do the same on yours. Circles bring together people aiming in the same direction, whether that is a first 10 km, a climbing grade or a new dance style. Messaging lets you talk in private when you want to.

A fitness goal can also be shared. With a co-goal, another person becomes co-author of your goal. It suits a training partner, a friend preparing the same race or a teammate working on the same skill. You both post updates on the same goal and follow the same journey.

When you want to show your progress beyond the app, an update can become a visual you share as a story, with a link to your Bemelio profile. In Discover, the app also presents experts, such as coaches and specialists, as well as events.

• Follow people and see their updates in your feed
• React and comment on progress
• Join circles of people with similar goals
• Share a goal with a co-author
• Turn an update into a story visual

What method helps you stick with a fitness goal?

Start with a goal you can picture clearly. Swim 1 km without a break is easier to work toward than get better at swimming. Then break it down. Ask yourself what the first small step looks like, and the one after that. Writing those steps into your goal gives you a path you can actually follow, even on days when motivation is low.

Regularity usually matters more than one heroic session. Plan sessions you can really keep with your schedule, rather than an ambitious plan that falls apart after a week. Marking each active day on your streak is a simple way to see your consistency, and rest days have their place in that plan too.

Measure what you do. Log your sessions, post an update when something changes and look back at your history from time to time. If progress stalls, adjust the goal or the steps instead of giving up. If you have a health concern, an injury or are returning to sport after a long break, a health professional is the right person to ask for advice.

• Make your goal concrete and specific
• Split it into small steps
• Choose a rhythm you can keep
• Log every session
• Review your progress and adjust

Fitness goal ideas to get started

Here are a few sports goals you can set on Bemelio, from a first run to a new climbing grade.

• Run 5 km without stopping
• Train for a half marathon
• Do 20 pull-ups
• Ride 100 km in one outing
• Learn front crawl
• Earn your next belt in a combat sport
• Climb your first 6b
• Practise yoga 5 times a week

Tracking tools for your sport

Depending on the subcategory you choose, your goal comes with tools that fit the way you train.

Start your fitness goal in 3 steps

1. 1

   Download the app

   Get Bemelio for free on the App Store or Google Play.

2. 2

   Create your goal

   Choose Sport & Fitness, pick your sport, give your goal a title and decide if it is public or private.

3. 3

   Post your first update

   Share where you are starting from today, with a few words, a photo or a video.