Guide email 16
Rebuild to Roam: Activity Tracking & Progress Monitoring
I wanted to introduce the next feature in the Rebuild to Roam app: hiking and activity tracking . You know that you can create a training plan using the backpacking training...
I wanted to introduce the next feature in the Rebuild to Roam app: hiking and activity tracking.
You know that you can create a training plan using the backpacking training calculator—but how do you assess your progress against that plan? That's exactly what the activity logger is designed for.
Track Your Progress Week by Week 📈
In the activity tracker, you can log your hikes and other workouts, then see your progress week by week based on your own training plan.
Here's what makes this different:
🏔️ Bulk Logger – I know ideally this would sync with Strava, Garmin, and other apps automatically. Being a small operation, I can't offer that yet (though it might come down the road). However, AllTrails doesn’t even offer this type of integration with large apps and none of these apps will work with that spreadsheet (or even pen & paper) log you have been using.
You can upload a screenshot from AllTrails, a picture of your handwritten log, or drop in a spreadsheet from your past logs. The bulk logger automatically imports all your hikes at once—no tedious manual entry.
🎒 Backpack Weight Tracking – Additionally, no mainstream app does will actually track the weight of your pack. That's a huge variable in backpacking training that gets completely ignored elsewhere. Now you can log your load weight and track it against your training plan.
💪 Complete Activity Logging – Since your training plan includes strength training and cross-training days, you can log those activities too.
How this integrates with the rest of the app 🔮
The activity tracker integrates with next week's featured feature: confidence tracking. You are able to track different measures of your confidence and recovery, then compare those against your hiking activity.
This lets you see patterns—are you doing too much? Or maybe you're feeling strong and confident enough to increase your training load a bit.
Over time, I'd love to develop a metric that combines distance, elevation, and pack weight into an overall difficulty score. We all know a short, steep hike with a heavy pack can be just as challenging as a longer, less elevation hike—they just provide different stimulus to the body.
Ready to start tracking your progress?
See you out there,
Jeff