MeloiThe Gym Rat Dev

Gear

Gear I actually recommend.

I build Mayari, a fitness and calorie-tracking app for Filipinos — and these are the tools I recommend using alongside it. Short list, no fluff.

Everything here is something I use or would buy again. Curious about the app behind this list? Read the Mayari case study →

Food scales for calorie tracking

If you track calories, a food scale is the single highest-impact purchase you can make. Eyeballing portions is where most tracking goes wrong.

Premium Choice

Xiaomi HOTO Smart Kitchen Scale

App-connected smart scale with 0.1g precision and a clean minimalist design. The scale I recommend if you're serious about accurate food logging.

Budget Choice

Xiaomi Mijia Electronic Kitchen Scale

Reliable 1g-precision scale at a great price. Everything you need to weigh food accurately, nothing you don't.

Training gear

Simple, durable gear that earns its place in a gym bag. No gimmicks — just the things I actually reach for.

Resistance Bands Set

Warm-ups, assisted pull-ups, and full home workouts when you can't make it to the gym. The best peso-per-use ratio in fitness.

₱300–800Link coming soon

Speed Jump Rope

Cheap, portable conditioning. Ten minutes of rope work is a legitimate cardio session anywhere you have two square meters.

₱150–500Link coming soon

Shaker Bottle

A leak-proof shaker with a mixing ball. Boring, essential, and somehow always the thing you forget to buy.

₱150–400Link coming soon

Lifting Straps

When your grip gives out before your back does on deadlifts and rows, straps let you keep training the muscles you're actually targeting.

₱200–500Link coming soon

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