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## Background & Overview
User Story:
    Profile
        -Progress Tracking
            =Stat/API Data visuals
        -Profile Picture
        
        History
        -Routines and goals

    Build Exercise Regiment
        -Goal in Mind
        -Copy other users' routines
        -Routine Templates (routine builder?)

    **Social Motivation**
        -Feed
            =Posts
        -Share Fitness Goals
            -Comment on user goals
        -Share Progress
            =Log exercise events + Progress pics
        -Comment on user routines
            =Like user routines
        -Subscribe to other users' progress
            =Updates in feed when exercise event is created/goals achieved



## Functionality & MVP
    Routines
        -User routine-creation
        -Skill Level
        -Bonus:
            -Expected Calorie Loss
                =Not necessarily accurate
                =Average lb person burns x calories with 30 minutes of cardio

    Goals
        -Skill/Hobby/Flexibility/Class Mastery by doing 1000 hrs of the activity by a deadline
        -I want to do x pushups
        -I want to be able to do novice routines
        -Ideal routine
        -Starting Photo/Stats
        -Finishing Photo/Stats

    Feed
        -Posts
            =Exercise Events
            =Created Routine
            =Created/Completed Goal
        -Subscriptions

    Exercise Events
        -Today's routine/photo
        -Current Photo/Stats

        Priority Check:
            -Embed videos/video links (YouTube API)
            -Upload videos
            -Inhouse videos (Library of videos?)
            -Routine Templates
            -Draw from API that will build routines
            **-Let users copy other users routine**


    Bonus:
        ***Profile
            -Current Photo
            -Stats and Stat Visualization
                =Not abstract
                =Concrete numbers (reps, distance, time, etc)
        -Likes
        -Comments
        -Timelapse of exercise events
        -Workout Timer
        -Tool to track calorie and macronutrient intake
            =Possible use of API
        -Stat Goal
            =I want to lose/gain x lbs
            =Weight check-in system
            =Enter your weight
            =Nutrition logging

## Technologies & Technical Challenges

-Describe MERN
-Mention AWS Implementation

## Group Members & Work Breakdown

-Discuss at end