188: My Fitness App Relaunch - Everything You Need to Know

**Nick Bare** (0:06)
Hello, everyone, and welcome back to another episode of the podcast. I am really excited about this one. Now, I've been teasing this on Instagram for the last couple of weeks now, and I'm pleased and excited to announce that I am relaunching my fitness training app. September 6th, 2026
Now, I've had my fitness training app since around 2020
So why am I relaunching it?
I'm going to go into that, but I'm also going to answer some frequently asked questions that cover the app, the launch, the programs, the training, what's in it, what it costs, everything in this episode. I put a pull up on my Instagram story a few days ago. I got a bunch of questions. So my goal with this episode is to answer those questions in preparation for the launch September 6th, 2026 The relaunch, why am I relaunching the app? Now, like I said, I launched my fitness training app around 2020 on this platform called Playbook. And since 2020, I have had training programs uploaded into this app. And there have been tens of thousands of people who have started and completed workouts.
This relaunch will be the same app. It's still hosted on Playbook. If you have been a subscriber for years, you don't have to do anything different. You will get the new experience as a historical subscriber. Same app, same platform.
Like I said, it's on a platform and it's powered by Playbook. So, if you go to the app store, you'll download the Playbook app. But it's easiest to download through my website, and I'll have a link on all my socials when we launch. The website is nickbarefitness.app.
A-P-P. Nickbarefitness.app. Now, I launched it in 2020 I uploaded a bunch of my training programs, hybrid athlete training programs, combination of strength training, weightlifting, bodybuilding, running, track workouts, hybrid training at its best, what I love. And I put a lot of time, a lot of energy into the app in 2020 when I launched. And to be honest, what happened is my priorities just shifted. BPN and building BPN on a daily basis just took up more and more and more of my time, as expected. The company was growing really, really fast to that point. Between 2019 and 2020, we grew 400% in that year. It was a crazy year.
So, what ended up happening was I launched the app, and then BPN was growing. We were hiring more people, building out the teams. I was hand-to-hand combat in the business, and the training app ended up getting de-prioritized for me. I built it. I structured all these workouts. People have been doing those same workouts for five, six years now. And I haven't updated it much since then. There have been a few times where I've gotten in and added new workouts or revamped some things, but I haven't had the bandwidth, the time, the energy, to really dedicate a lot of time to it. So over this last year, my role within BPN has shifted. We've hired some really talented key team members, experienced team members, leadership team members, and they have taken on a lot of my day-to-day responsibilities in the business, which I am so grateful and fortunate for. Which means I can now focus my time and energy within my zone of genius. What I love to do and what I'm uniquely gifted to do, in my opinion, that is creating content, YouTube videos, training, educating, documenting, podcasts, helping, supporting, sharing, you guys along your health, fitness, life journey to reach your goals, to grow, to develop, to mature, to get better, to go one more. I'm now in a season of life and a chapter of business where I can choose what I work on. And I'm so fortunate and grateful for that opportunity. And it's only because, like I said, we have found and hired the right people. I have a really amazing and solid team. So I'm now shifting some of my time back to the training app. Still, a lot of my time is dedicated towards building BPN and working with the team, but I have some more bandwidth, some more creative bandwidth and energy to shift back into the app. And that's what I'm doing.
And that's why it's a relaunch. I believe a relaunch is necessary because the experience that I want to create and build in this app is going to be much different than what has been currently offered these last couple years. My involvement in the app on a weekly basis is going to be a much different experience for you guys than it has been the last couple years.
So that's why I'm relaunching it. It's going to be a different experience. It's going to help you guys on a different level. And I'll explain how, why, and what.