Bodydex was a first Canadian project — an ambitious fitness portal combining exercises, recipes, videos, news feeds, and calorie calculators. Despite its potential, the project was never completed, becoming the first documented “fail” in the timeline — but also the first step into the Canadian development landscape.
After moving to Canada in 2012, I still had active contracts with Russia, including long-standing work with TchernovAudio.
While settling in, adapting to a new environment, and looking for new opportunities, a new project took form — Bodydex.
It became the first attempt to build something entirely new on Canadian soil:
a structured fitness database wrapped in a clean, modern interface.
Bodydex aimed to be a comprehensive fitness service, merging multiple content streams:
🏋️ Exercise database with categories, instructions, muscles, and variations
🍲 Healthy recipes sourced from contributors
🎥 Video library improving understanding of technique
📰 Fitness news feed and daily updates
🧮 Calorie and nutrition calculator
📝 Articles from professional trainers, gathered through active outreach to the fitness community
In short: it had everything “to lose weight and stay motivated,” as I used to joke back then.
Despite its potential, Bodydex eventually became the first documented fail in the timeline — not because it was bad, but because life changed.
I was still adapting to Canada, still working on Russian contracts, and still finding footing in a new country.
And soon, a completely different direction pulled all my focus — a direction that led to Lugansk.Ru, a project far more important.
Bodydex slowly faded away.
Almost nothing of it migrated into QRaway, except:
✔ Experience working with structured fitness-related data
✔ Early insight into Canadian content sourcing
✔ Connections from months of recruiting fitness authors
Bodydex wasn’t a commercial success.
But it marked something significant:
👉 It became the first “fail” of the Canadian chapter — a reminder that reinvention always begins with attempts that don’t land the way we expect.
It wasn’t a defeat.
It was simply the wrong project at the wrong time.
Within months, all effort shifted to something far more fundamental — the project that would define the next era: Lugansk.Ru.
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