🏋️ Workout Tracker

A simple Python-based workout tracking application that uses an exercise/nutrition API to estimate exercise duration and calories burned from natural-language input and automatically saves the workout data to a spreadsheet using the Sheety API.

🚀 Features

• 🏃 Enter exercises using natural language
• 🔥 Calculates estimated calories burned
• ⏱️ Calculates exercise duration
• 📅 Automatically records the current date and time
• 📊 Stores workout information in a spreadsheet
• 🔐 Uses environment variables to keep API credentials private
• 🌐 Uses REST APIs with Python requests

🛠️ Technologies Used

• Python
• Requests
• REST API
• Exercise/Nutrition API
• Sheety API
• Google Sheets
• Environment Variables

📂 Project Structure

Workout-Tracker/
│
├── main.py
├── README.md
├── requirements.txt
├── .gitignore
└── .env.example

⚙️ How It Works

1. The program asks the user what exercise they performed.

2. The exercise description is sent to the nutrition/exercise API.

3. The API returns information such as:

   • Exercise name
   • Duration
   • Calories burned

4. The program adds the current date and time.

5. The workout information is sent to a Sheety spreadsheet.

💻 Example

Tell me what exercise you did : 30 minutes running

The API response is then processed and the workout information is saved with:

• Date
• Time
• Exercise
• Duration
• Calories

🔑 Environment Variables

This project requires API credentials.

Create environment variables for:

MY_TOKEN
API_ID
API_KEY

Example:

MY_TOKEN=your_bearer_token
API_ID=your_api_id
API_KEY=your_api_key

Never upload your real API keys or tokens to GitHub.

📦 Installation

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/YOUR-USERNAME/Workout-Tracker.git
cd Workout-Tracker

2. Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Configure environment variables

Set your API credentials:

MY_TOKEN
API_ID
API_KEY

4. Run the program

python main.py

📋 Requirements

The project uses the Python requests library.

Install it using:

pip install requests

🎯 Learning Objectives

This project helped me practice:

• Python classes and methods
• API requests using requests
• POST requests
• JSON data handling
• Environment variables
• Exception handling
• Working with external APIs
• Automating spreadsheet data entry

🔮 Future Improvements

• Add a graphical user interface
• Add weekly/monthly workout summaries
• Display total calories burned
• Add user authentication
• Add charts and progress tracking
• Store data in a dedicated database
• Add more detailed workout statistics

👨‍💻 Author

Harit Sharma

B.Tech Computer Science Engineering Student

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