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Love When a Plan Comes Together

10th May, 2026
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This weekend on Bearly Fit, I have mostly been improving the UI around Workout plans.

Now that the wizard lets you generate a plan, I thought it'd be good to give the UI for managing them a little work over.

  • Revamped the UI
  • Added an info button for each exercise
  • Added session awareness
  • Made it so it scales with each workout

View mode for a generated plan - exercise list with info buttons and a Start workout button
Edit mode - drag handles, delete buttons, Add Exercise and Save Plan

The session-aware bit was the most fiddly. If you're already in a workout, the plan view tells you - and stops you starting another one until you wrap up the first.

The current plan during a live session - banner telling you it's in progress, with a total / rest timer at the bottom
A different plan while a session is running - it locks the Start button and explains why

Hoping this will go live this week!

My next big challenge is to upgrade from RN 0.76 to Expo 54 (and RN 0.81). The code base is very large now, so as part of the upgrade I plan to split each core section into a self contained module. I'm hoping this'll make it easier to test and develop for each major section - and it'll also give me the ability to build spin off apps.

Oh - and I've started speaking to designers about modernising the UI for the current app, so that'll start happening on the side :).

Thanks for reading :)

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