After years of tracking workouts on paper and failing with generic apps, I built Avya — an AI fitness coach that actually knows my training history, understands calisthenics progressions, and speaks Indian food.
I Was Tracking My Workouts on Paper. In 2024.
I had a notebook. A ruled notebook from the stationery shop, ₹40. Every workout — the exercises, the sets, the reps, how I felt — all written down in slightly illegible handwriting. I'd been doing this for years.
The nutrition was worse. I'd try to mentally calculate my protein intake. "Okay, 3 eggs in the morning, that's about 18g... chicken at lunch, maybe 30g... dal at dinner..." By evening I'd have no idea if I hit my target or missed it by 40 grams.
I tried fitness apps. Every single popular one. They all had the same problem: they treated me like a generic user. A 37-year-old calisthenics athlete who trains in handstands and levers doesn't fit into the "Week 1: Learn to do a push-up" template. The apps were either too basic or too rigid. None of them could understand what I actually needed.
So I built my own.
What Avya Actually Is
Avya is an AI fitness coach — named after my son Avyaansh. It's not a workout logger. It's not a calorie counter. It's a system that knows my training history, my goals, my body, and my patterns — and gives me actual coaching based on all of that context.
Here's what makes Avya different from every fitness app I've tried:
1. It Has My Complete Training Memory
Avya knows every workout I've done since I started using it. It knows that my front lever hold time dropped last week, that my handstand endurance peaks on Tuesdays, that I tend to skip leg work on Fridays. It uses this history to suggest what I should train today — not a generic "Push Day" but an actual recommendation based on what my body needs right now.
2. It Understands Calisthenics Progressions
Most fitness apps think in terms of weight × reps. Calisthenics doesn't work that way. Progression in calisthenics means moving to a harder variation — from tuck front lever to advanced tuck to straddle to full. Avya understands this. It tracks which progression level I'm at for each skill and tells me when I'm ready to attempt the next one.
3. It Adapts to How I'm Feeling
Some days I walk in feeling like I can conquer the world. Other days, my shoulders are tight and I slept 5 hours. Avya asks me a few simple questions before each session and adjusts the workout intensity accordingly. Bad sleep? It dials back the volume and focuses on skill work. Feeling great? It pushes me toward new personal bests.
4. Nutrition That Knows My Kitchen
I don't eat chicken breast and broccoli every meal. I eat Indian food — roti, dal, sabzi, eggs, paneer, rice. Avya has been trained on common Indian foods and their macros. When I tell it what I ate, it gives me accurate tracking without making me search through a database of 10,000 Western foods to find "paneer bhurji."