WordPress Fitness Tracker: Build One With Charts (No Code)

Are you a fitness buff running a community site? This step-by-step guide will show you how to make a fitness tracker for your WordPress website.

Approximate read time: 8 minutes

Want members to log their workouts or weight and watch their progress grow on a chart? A fitness tracker gives them a reason to come back to your site again and again.

In this guide, you'll build a simple weight tracker in WordPress: a form members fill out, plus a chart that shows each person's own progress. No code required.

You can also start from a ready-made template or have AI build it for you (more on that below).

What kinds of fitness trackers are there?

There are many options for fitness tracking. You can track everything from weight loss to meal planning. As long as it relates to fitness goals, there's a way to do it!

Here are a few goal-based fitness trackers you could use on your WordPress site:

• Fitness calculators
• Meal trackers
• BMI calculator
• Workout log/activity tracker
• Calorie counters
• Exercise log
• Workout diary
• Sleep tracking

Add body measurements to the mix, and members can watch their progress on a simple graph, whether they're losing weight, building muscle, or holding steady.

Who can benefit from creating a fitness tracker?

If you run a health and fitness business, nothing stops you from using fitness trackers. We've already discussed fitness community sites, but that's just the tip of the iceberg.

• Crossfit clubs
• Fitness centers
• Gyms
• Personal trainers
• Nutritionists
• Sports medicine
• Exercise bloggers
• Fitness influencers

WordPress goal trackers give your audience a reason to return to your site repeatedly.

Create a WordPress fitness tracker in 5 steps (Plus an AI shortcut)

This example shows you how to make a simple yet effective fitness tracker that displays daily progress across key fitness metrics using the Formidable Forms WordPress application builder.

1. Download and install Formidable Forms

To build a tracker with a progress chart, you'll need Formidable Forms with the Plus plan or higher. Plus includes the graphs and Views you'll use to show each member's data.

Here's what you need:

• A WordPress site
• A Formidable Forms Plus license (or higher)
• About 5 minutes

This is worth it if you're serious about upgrading your fitness business.

With a Formidable Plus plan, you'll be able to take on fitness tracking and much more:

• Build custom forms with our drag and drop form builder
• Display form data with eye-catching WordPress graphs
• Connect to email tools like Mailchimp
• Make your forms match your WordPress theme with our visual form styler

Prefer a head start? Start from our Workout Tracker template or Exercise Log template, then add a User ID field so each entry belongs to the logged-in member.

2. Create a fitness tracking form in WordPress

Once Formidable is up and running, the next thing to do is create a form. With Formidable's drag-and-drop form builder, this could not be easier!

All you do is drag in the fields you need, click the update button, and voila!

For this example, we will build a simple weight loss tracker. To do this, we only need a form that tracks weight and the date.

For this tutorial, let's add the following fields to our form:

• Date field
• Number field - OR - Number slider (weight)
• User ID field

One thing to point out: we need a User ID field so that the form data will be associated with the logged-in user. Be sure to look into the field options to give your number field the appropriate label. In this case, you'd want to specify that users can input weight in kilos or pounds.

If you want to update the colors, fonts, styles, or any other UI design, visit our Formidable Form Styler.

Once you've done that, click Update and move on to step 3.

Did you know? In Formidable, you can create exercise trackers too. Users can select different activity types like cycling, swimming, or hiking! And, of course, you can graph the results, too.

3. Input some test entries

This part is straightforward. Click the Entries tab above the form builder, then click the Add New button. Your newly created form will pop up, giving us test data to display later.

Now, add a few entries and move on to step 4.

4. Publish your fitness tracking form

Next, we need to publish our fitness tracking form. The perfect place to publish this on a fitness community site would be on a user's profile page.

If you haven't already set up your community website, this might be a challenge. However, for testing purposes in this tutorial, we can create a new post or page in the WordPress admin as usual.

Once you've created a new post or page, we can publish our form using one of the following methods:

1. Use the shortcode builder
2. Insert the form shortcode manually
3. Use a form block

5. Display fitness tracking graphs

Here's where it all comes together! In theory, there are a lot of places where we might want to display our users' fitness data:

• Public user profiles
• Forum signature section
• Leaderboards section
• Private profile area

Once you have the data, it can be displayed in many exciting ways! In this quick example, we'll show you how to display a simple graph on the same page or post you created in the last step.

In Formidable, graphs come with a ton of options. So tweaking things to look just how you want them isn't too hard. Consider a few things, like which graph style you want to display.

All you need is the WordPress Charts and Graphs plugin from Formidable Forms, which is under the Add-ons.

Then, you can simply add the Formidable Chart block to insert a chart on your post or page. To show each member only their own progress, open the chart's settings and set the user filter to current.

The resulting graph should look something like this:

Build your fitness tracker with AI

Formidable 7.0 connects to AI tools like Claude through MCP.

Turn it on under Formidable → Settings → MCP, then follow the connect steps on that screen for your AI tool. Before you start, activate the Charts add-on under Formidable → Add-Ons.

When it's time, you'll paste this prompt:
Using Formidable Forms, build a workout progress tracker.

1. Create a form called "Workout Tracker" with these fields: Date, Exercise (dropdown: Squat, Bench Press, Deadlift), Weight or Distance (number), Reps (number), Notes, and a User ID field.
2. Add a confirmation message and 5 sample entries with different dates.
3. Create a View that shows only the logged-in user's entries, newest first, in a table. Above the table, add a line graph of Weight over Date for the current user.
4. Give me the shortcode to place the View on a page.

Then paste the shortcode into any page. (Building the View and graph requires the Plus plan or higher.)

Get a fitness form builder now

After you've tweaked your graph to perfection, you'll have a fitness tracker that community members can proudly show off on their profiles. 

Hopefully, this guide inspired you to see how much is possible with Fitness + Formidable, your best fitness tracker plugin.

Start with the template or the AI prompt, and your members can be logging workouts today.

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