I split my workouts in two workouts UPPER and LOWER. I think many
others do that, even splitting body in more segments. It seems the
machine is not aware whether you work your entire body, or you do
"UPPER" one day and "LOWER" another day. Every time I do a workout
(such as UPPER), the next day (when I want to do LOWER) the machine
admonishes me that "it doesn't make much sense to work out today since
you worked out yesterday". If this is done on purpose, specified by
your training method (let one day elapse between workouts even when you
work only a part of your body), than this is correct. I however doubt
that you advise people who workout body parts to only workout every
other day. That way in a week you get very little exercise per body
part. I rather think that this is due to lazy programming. An AI
(Artificial Intelligence) program like Dr. Muscle should have enough
intelligence to know if it is OK to workout your body part today today
(or not). Easy to program. Perhaps you should add some of your science
here to make this a useful feature (that you can advertise: "Dr. Muscle
will detect and let you know if you are overtraining") . After so many
consecutive days of workout without a pause day, and/or if the program
detects a decrease in performance that may be due to overtraining, at
that point the program should discourage the user from doing a workout.

Eexercises that you would not use dumbbells on, pop up as "a thing" when asked how much weight you can lift 6 times.

I would like to see more variations in the programming. Like weightlifter, Olympic lifter or crossfitter and calisthenics in the weight training program and not something separate. I got bored of the programming. After I completed the program, it gave me the same program again with the same movements. The best programming I've ever combined both weights, calisthenics and accessory work like scapula pullups, resistance bands etc. in the workout and I had the best results.

I would find it useful to set the custom rest time between sets under settings at the exercise level (same page as custom reps).

Best regards,

Jürgen

Hi guys!

I got an idea for the app, but would like to know if you're interested before we build it. Would you like to get a weekly email with a summary of what you did that week? Things like:

- How many workouts
- Total sets
- Total reps
- New records (1RM)
- Top 3 exercises you've done the most

And more. 

Would that be of interest to you? If yes, please vote for this feature. Thx!

I like a nice mix of warmup, strength, conditioning, and cool down. I think Dr. Muscle has great potential but a little more guidance into total fitness would be nice.

I would like to see it give more of a summary after your workout about what you need to do next. Goal for next workout, try to add more weight or do more reps for example, just more intelligence in a summary form (words) about your next work out. It does a good job telling me I went up X % etc... but looking forward to my next work out would be nice.

Let me know how many more sets in the exercise after each set.

Sometimes it sais to do that nr of reps with that weight to build muscle faster and after I do it it shows my progression as 0% or even , sometimes, as -1%. Why is this ?

Response from Carl:

The 0% or -1% progression is because the app rounds down its weight to the nearest 2.5 lbs / 1 kg for safety. The default recommendation is always minimum 1% increase, but because the app rounds down, in some cases, you can get 0% or -1%. You should try to keep beating the app (do 1 more rep that recommended), so you'll always get an increase.

Follow-up response from Bogdan:

Ok but let's say that last time I did a bench press with 100 kg.

     The app is now telling me to do 101 kg for 4 reps. Now I don't know if the app is increasing with 1% or not ( here is another problem becouse I can see the result only after I finish my exercise. Only then the app is telling me if I did -1% or 0 or +1%). 
So just to be sure that I will increase I need to do one more rep , wich in this case means a 25% increase wich is allmost impossibe and most important dangerous.
     I think the best solution would be that the app should not round the weight down and should show me EXACTLY the weight needed to increase that 1%.
     Now , If I don't have small plates ( wich by the way , I do ) I will round down to what I have and do one more rep or round up and do one less, wichever is closer.
     The next best thing would be that if the app rounds down the weight it should advise me before the set or it should automatically increase with one more rep.
     For me is very important to get a small increase every workout. I had a lot of waisted sets when the app reccomanded -1% or 0% and I saw the result only after finishing the exercises.