Ep. 60 | TBI wives are the last ones on their own list. The appointments, the medications, the kids, the house, the paperwork, all of it comes first. And by the time everything else is handled, the idea of figuring out what workout to do, whether you have time, what equipment you need, and where to even start feels like one decision too many.

Mason Mattes built Cynical Fitness for a completely different reason, he was a former gym goer who moved to Omaha, stopped going, and could not find an app that actually kept him motivated to come back. What he accidentally built was exactly what TBI wives need.

Fifteen minutes or an hour and a half, at the gym, at home, at a hotel, in the garage, with no equipment or full setup. The app connects to your calendar, reminds you when you have a pocket of time, tells you exactly what to do, adjusts when you run out of time or skip a workout, and swaps out any exercise you do not like or cannot do, without making you start over. It adapts to you. 

Erika was one of Mason’s first testers, and in this episode the two of them have a conversation about what it looks like to use Cynical Fitness as a TBI wife, including going through the motions on a Peloton for years, choosing the ride that would not yell at her, and what changed when she finally had something that told her what to do and pushed her to do it better.

Mason also shares the full story of building the app, a year of late nights, AI tools, no coding background, Apple’s approval process, data security, and realizing he should have mapped out every single feature before he started building.

If you have been talking yourself out of working out because you do not have the time, the energy, the equipment, or the plan, this episode is going to change that.

You can connect with Mason on Facebook and Instagram.

And be sure to download the app to get started!

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