Category: Afitpilot
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A.V. Hill
Archibald Vivian Hill won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on heat production in muscle. Most people who recognise his name today do so for a different reason: he is the physiologist who introduced the concept of maximum oxygen uptake — VO₂ max — in the same year, while running…
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Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace wrote the first published computer program in 1843, a step-by-step procedure for computing Bernoulli numbers on Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine — a machine that was never built in her lifetime.
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William Sheldon
William Sheldon coined the term “somatotype” and named its three components — endomorph, mesomorph, ectomorph. He also produced personality theories and a photographic methodology that did not survive scrutiny.
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Adolphe Quetelet
Adolphe Quetelet founded modern anthropometry in 19th-century Brussels. He also designed the formula now misused as BMI. A short profile of his work and its limits.
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The somatotype experiment
The Afitpilot logo came from a sports science textbook — specifically, the somatochart on the cover of Carter and Heath’s Somatotyping: Development and Applications. Here’s how it became the brand mark.
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RPE: from a kiosk to Afitpilot
Three years ago I set up an RPE kiosk at a CrossFit box: an iPad on a stand near the exit, copied from the format you tap on the way out of an airport. After each WOD, athletes tapped a number from 1 to 10. This post covers what RPE is, what the kiosk actually…
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How Afitpilot Became Real — And Why I Still Don’t Have All the Answers
I didn’t start Afitpilot because I had a great idea in a coffee shop. I started it because everything else had fallen apart. In February 2024, I got laid off. I’d been giving that job everything — showing up two hours early, staying an hour late, making sure they knew I was committed. Nine months…
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When Is a Master Plan Finished? Lessons From a 12-Week Reset
My 12-week master plan didn’t end the way it was designed. Instead of peaking, reality forced a reset. In this post, I explore when a master plan is truly finished — by design, by purpose, or by reality — and how branching, resets, and exit criteria make training more adaptive.