About FitVilo

Most home fitness writing assumes a basement, a generous gear budget, and no downstairs neighbor. FitVilo writes for the other side of that picture: small apartments, shared walls, limited storage, and routines that have to survive a regular workweek. If you live in a 38 m² flat above a sleeping neighbor and want a quiet morning workout that does not wake them, those are the constraints the site is built around.

The site covers home fitness setups that fit into corners and closets, gear that works in 6 to 15 square meters, equipment comparisons that take noise and folding dimensions seriously, and active habits that hold up past a January resolution. It is written for beginners and intermediate readers working out at home, not for competitive athletes whose training needs a coach and a full gym.

Who writes FitVilo

FitVilo is written and edited by Alex Reed. He builds the calculators, compiles the equipment dataset by hand from manufacturer pages, draws the diagrams and reads every source the guides cite.

One editor means one accountable person: every figure on the site names its source, and corrections go to a single inbox that Alex reads.

What FitVilo creates itself

Most home fitness pages are a rearrangement of the same spec sheets. These are the parts of FitVilo that had to be built, and they are what the site has that a summary of the search results does not.

Four calculators, collected at /tools/ and each embedded in the guide that explains its output. The Apartment impact-risk planner weighs your floor, the hour, the exercise, the mat under you, and your footwear, then names the single change worth making first. The clear-floor fit check takes the floor area you can genuinely spare and says which setups fit, naming the dimension that blocks each one that does not. The foldability time cost turns fold and unfold seconds into hours per year. The home-versus-membership tool finds the break-even month between a one-time setup and a monthly fee, counting commute time and commute cost on the gym side. Every coefficient and every formula sits on the methodology page, including the ones that are editorial judgment rather than measurement.

A walking pad and treadmill dataset, 31 machines compiled by hand from manufacturer and retailer specification pages. Every row links the page it came from and records the date that page was read, so a spec that drifts later can be checked against what the source said on the day. Where a spec page omits a value the field stays empty rather than being filled from a guess, and a row missing two or more fields is flagged as partial.

The FitVilo Apartment Fit Score, the 0-to-100 figure in that dataset. It weighs folded height at 0.30, unfolded footprint at 0.25, top speed at 0.25, and machine weight at 0.20, each rescaled from published numbers. Those weights are an editorial judgment about what matters in an apartment, not a verdict on how good a machine is, and they are printed in full on the methodology page so a reader who disagrees can disagree with a specific number.

Nine diagrams and charts, drawn as inline SVG for the individual article they sit in rather than pulled from a stock library: room zones, wall zones, an under-desk setup, bench storage, air exchange, belt wear, and the reference charts behind figures the guides lean on.

A claim taxonomy. Each non-obvious figure is classified as a source fact, a calculation, an editorial judgment or an illustrative scenario; the editorial policy explains each.

How guides are researched

A guide starts with the reading: manufacturer specification pages and manuals, standards bodies and government rules, peer-reviewed research, and independent consumer-test organizations where their results are published. Those figures get read against the thing the site actually cares about, which is how the gear or the routine behaves in a small apartment.

Before a number reaches the page it is checked against the document it came from, and the document is named in a Sources block at the end of the article. Sourcing order, fact-checking, corrections, and how each type of claim is classified are set out in the editorial policy.

What FitVilo does not claim

FitVilo does not run a test laboratory. Figures come from manufacturer pages, standards, peer-reviewed research and named third-party labs, and each is cited where it appears. The calculators are planning models built on those published figures, not measurements of your room. Nothing here is medical advice: for pain, injury, pregnancy or a medical condition, talk to a qualified professional.

Corrections and contact

Every factual claim carries a named source, every calculator coefficient is written out on the methodology page, and a working email answers corrections. A reader who doubts a figure can open the same document the site used and check it line by line. That is the whole accountability model, and it is on the page rather than in a promise.

• The tools page collects the calculators and the equipment dataset.
• The methodology page documents every model and scoring rule in full, including which inputs are editorial weights.
• The editorial policy page covers sourcing, fact-checking, claim types, and corrections.
• The contact page lists the working email and what to include in a correction.

FitVilo was started in 2026 and is updated on an ongoing basis. The “updated” date on each page shows when its content last changed.