About Brigid

Brigid started with a familiar frustration: training with a personal trainer while juggling a food-tracking app, a habits spreadsheet, and a training spreadsheet, then retyping all of it every week into whatever format worked for a PT check-in. The data existed. It just lived in five different places and had to be copied out by hand, every week.

As that chapter wound down, after years of training on and off, the real problem became obvious: it was never really about the PT. It was about wanting one place that actually held all of it, without the manual double-entry.

Talking to other trainers made the picture bigger. “Personal training” can mean someone spotting your reps, but for a lot of people it's really about more than the physical: habits, mindset, day-to-day discipline. And almost everyone deals with the other side of it too eventually, an injury or a dodgy joint that needs managing alongside everything else, not instead of it.

That's where Healing, Forging and Verse came from: recovery, physical training, and the lifestyle and habits side, three things that turned out to already be how training actually works, not a framework invented afterwards.

The name came from a love of mythology (blame Stephen Fry's Mythos) and a search for a deity who could be the app's namesake. Brigid, the Irish goddess of healing, smithcraft and poetry, mapped onto the three pillars almost exactly. With Irish heritage on my dad's side and a name spelled like the county, it felt less like a coincidence and more like it was always going to be called that.

Brigid is built for anyone who wants their own training, recovery and habits in one place, on their own terms. Whatever data it collects is yours: export it as a report or as raw JSON whenever you want it.

Built and maintained by Clare. Still in beta; if something is broken or confusing, that is useful to know.