About SailorFit

Training when the “gym” is a foredeck

If you spend real time on the water — crewing a delivery, working a charter boat, living aboard, or just squeezing workouts around watch schedules — the usual fitness numbers don’t line up cleanly with your life. A calorie estimate built around a desk job doesn’t account for a day spent hauling lines in the heat. A gym-built workout plan assumes floor space and a rack you don’t have belowdecks. Figuring out your body fat, your daily calorie needs, how much water you actually need in salt air and sun, or what your one-rep max means for a program you can run in a six-foot cabin takes more arithmetic than most people want to do by hand.

That’s the narrow, specific problem this site tries to solve: turn those scattered numbers into a handful of tools you can run in a minute, built around the constraints of training on and around boats rather than in a commercial gym.

What the tools actually do

The BMI Calculator and Body Fat Calculatorgive you a starting read on body composition from height, weight, and a few tape-measure readings — nothing fancier than the standard formulas, just without the manual math. The Calorie Calculatorestimates daily energy needs from your stats and activity level, with separate targets depending on whether you’re cutting, holding steady, or trying to add size — useful when a day of physical work at sea burns differently than a day at a desk. The One-Rep Max Calculator takes any weight-and-reps combination and projects your one-rep max along with a full percentage table, so you can program lifts without hauling a true max attempt onto a moving boat. The Water Intake Calculator factors in weight, activity, and climate, because hydration needs shift fast in heat and salt air. And the Workout Planner builds a weekly split around your goal, experience level, and the days you actually have free to train, which on a boat is rarely a fixed schedule.

Each tool runs the same established formulas and conventions used across general fitness and nutrition guidance — nothing here invents its own methodology, it just applies the standard ones to the numbers you enter, and shows the working instead of hiding it. Alongside the tools, the site carries fitness and training articles aimed at life on the water, in the blog and learn section.

What this is (and isn’t)

SailorFit is an independent, advertising-supported site — it’s not affiliated with any gym chain, sailing federation, boat manufacturer, or health authority, and none of the tools are endorsed by one. The calculators produce estimates from the numbers you enter; they’re a starting point, not a diagnosis or a guarantee. This is general informational and educational content, not professional medical, fitness, or nutrition advice — always check with a qualified doctor or fitness professional before starting a new exercise or nutrition program, especially if you have an existing health condition.

If you want a break from the numbers, the site’s Museum of Sailing & the Seais a separate collection of historic sailing ships, navigation and seamanship, famous voyages and explorers, and the sea in sport and culture, drawn from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons — unrelated to fitness, just a detour for anyone who ends up here because they like the sea.

Questions about a specific tool, or something that looks off in a result? Get in touch.