I searched through the database but I couldn’t find any similar topic. If there’s already one I ask for apologies in advance.

Here’s my request:

The bar weight is adjustable but the weight remains the same in the next session unless it’s manually modified. It’s not a big problem, even though when I don’t pay attention to it, I forget to double check and only following the plates calculation I’m doing the warm up with the wrong weight.

Typical situation that sometimes occurs to me (I’m expressing myself using kgs)

Last exercise of push day: lying triceps extension with ez bar 7,5 kg 

First exercise of next session (pull day) barbell row with usual bar at 20 kgs. Usually for the first set I can see by myself plates to use, because its light. On the second set of warm up the app tells you how many plates to add not showing the bar’s weight. I add plates and performing the exercise I’m feeling that the warm up weight is a little bit hard for me. Then I check the app and discover that the bar weight is 7,5 instead of 20.

To avoid this, two are the solutions: 

1) (the best one) bar weight is memorized for each exercise (I always perform barbell curl with ez bar, for instance)

2) show in the first screen with timer, not only the plates to add, but also the bar’s weight.

Thanks for your kind attention

Nicola

I think further integration with other data I have on my phone from other health apps would be great: heart rate variability, sleep the previous night, etc. would be useful. So, when I go to workout, perhaps the app says, you got only 6 hours of sleep, then asks me how much motivation I have to work out, and then, based on my responses, suggests a tailored workout, etc.

It would be really helpful to have more detailed descriptions of why certain recommendations are being made.  I can’t tell, for example, why the app sometimes recommends a very low number of reps (3 instead of normal range of 8-15), or gets me to do a Max session, or started a deload for a given exercise. 

I know a lot of the time it’s just adding a rep or a weight increment for progressive overload but when ever it’s not doing that it (e.g. because you under performed last time on the exercise, at the end of the cycle, whatever the reason) would be helpful to know why.

For the full body workout the app always gives an estimate of 30 minutes, but it always takes me about two and a half hours if I follow the app's suggested rest times. And I always skip bench at the moment, so it would be even longer if I did that as well. If it's impossible to do the full body workout in 60 minutes following the default rest sessions it doesn't make sense to have 60 minutes as the standard estimate for it. Could you change the settings so that it gives a realistic time estimate for the workouts?

The gym I most often use has about 10 different strength machines and about as many cardio machines. There are no plates, no dumbbells, no benches, no chin-up bar, one very limited "pulley" (a lat pulldown machine with one overhead pulley and no other attachments), and no room for bodyweight exercises or calisthenics. Ideally, I should be able to select the specific types of equipment that are available (e.g. chest press, leg press, etc.) for the app to select exercises for. Right now the app only allows the user to select from 4 very broad categories rather than specific types of equipment, and none of the categories in the app currently even apply to my available equipment.

Once I have manually configured the exercises, the app does seem to do well in weight and rep assignments with appropriate progressions (now that I understand the rest-pause effect). This is half the battle, but I don't feel like I'm getting full use from the app because of the equipment and exercise selection issues.

I do have a suggestion to improve the product though: where there is a substitute needed, the app should suggest an alternative (the closest exercise to providing the same training impact as the original) instead of letting the customer select one.

Hope this helps.

Stu

When a note has been added to an exercise it would be great to have the first line or so of that note displayed on the exercise set screen, there is space. Right under the name of exercise show the first several words of the note. Otherwise you have to open settings for each exercise to see if you have a note. And if possible make it so you can tap those words it opens your full note.

Allow an option to record exercises by distance such as cycling, walking or running. Currently we only have Reps and Time as options.