# Introduction
So you've decided to utilize the Anathletics app and now you're ready to workout! While the app is simple to use, you can uses this guide to discover the different features and how to get the most out of them.
Anathletics is built on 3 philosphies. These govern which features are most important and determines the future development of the app.
# 1. Simplicity
If it's not simple, it's not Anathletics. When it comes to training our bodies, we want 100% of our focus on progress. Your tools shouldn't hold you back. You shouldn't be spending more time logging your workouts than you are actually working out. Anathletics strives to be as simple as you want it to be. If you want nothing more than a list of exercises to perform, then we will let you do that. If you want to track every minute stat, then by all means, we've got your back.
What's more, Anathletics aims to be completely "off the grid", if you want it to be. That means that once you've loaded the app once, it never needs to access the internet again. You can manage all of your information completely offline. This is to give piece of mind that the app is only going to be involved in your training as much as you want it to be.
# 2. Versitility
Everyone goes through phases in their fitness journey. You may start our just doing random exercises to get in shape. Then you find that you want to build muscle, so you do a bulking workout. Then you decide that Crossfit or HIIT training is your style. Through all of your changes, you want tools that can keep up with you. Anathletics lets you train however you want while still tracking all of your progress.
# 3. Intelligence
It's one thing to make sure you are logging your workouts. But, what are you actually doing with that data? And is what you're logging even useful in the first place. At the end of the day, training is all about progress, and you can't know if you've made progress if you don't know where you started. Anathletics will track as much data as you let it and will give you insight on how much you've improved over time and how you can maximize your results.
Read on to learn how Anathletics acheives these ideals and how you can use them to take your workouts to the next level.