Voice prompt for weight AND reps
One possible thing that I personally would like is that a voice prompt can say the amount of reps and the weight to be used. Currently, a voiceover says “3,2,1 X reps” it would be helpful to have the voiceover say something like “3,2,1 12 reps at 20kg”.
Assisted Pullups/dips
This has been requested twice already and is a pretty common sense suggestion. Please add in assisted exercises.
Hi Nygel,
I can see you already voted for that suggestion on another post: https://muscle.userecho.com/communities/1/topics/273-support-for-assisted-dips-chin-ups?redirect_to_reply=926#comment-926
I'm going to mark this as a duplicate and close it.
Best,
Carl
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Single Muscle Group Hypertrophy
I am using this app to help solely with muscle hypertrophy. I would very much like to focus on a single muscle group per day and optimize a workout routine around that. Currently, I know you can choose to work out a particular muscle group, but it doesn’t seem like we can have the AI create a workout routine weekly around hitting a particular muscle group per day. This would be huge for me and I’m sure many, many others.
Hi Austin. Thanks for your suggestion. Programs like that are definitely popular, so we could certainly addi one to the app.
But as Seppe pointed out, the science says you should train each muscle at least 2x a week for best results. Here's meta-analysis of 10 studies:
Conclusions: When comparing studies that investigated training muscle groups between 1 to 3 days per week on a volume-equated basis, the current body of evidence indicates that frequencies of training twice a week promote superior hypertrophic outcomes to once a week.
Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30558493/
And another one of 25 studies:
Meta-regression analysis of non-volume-equated studies showed a significant effect favoring higher frequencies, although the overall difference in magnitude of effect between frequencies of 1 and 3+ days per week was modest.
Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30558493/
So, if you're training solely with muscle hypertrophy, I would really recommend a program in which you train each muscle at least 2x a week. All our programs do that, fortunately. But if you'd still like us to add a program like you described, please let me know, and we'll do it as soon as your suggestion gets more votes. Only customers get to vote, and we implement suggestions with the most votes first. Thanks!
The summary page shows records smashed, with stats for them.
When finished with a workout. The summary page shows records smashed, it would be nice to see which records and what the stats are for each, last stats compared to new records
Search exercises by muscle groups
While swapping for lying leg curls, I was searching ‘hamstring’ things also… maybe having it pop up somehow under that search would help.
Lock Screen Timer
It would be really helpful if the timer showed up on my lock screen the way other timers do. Even better would be the timer plus the number of reps for the next set. That way I can just glance at my phone to check instead of having to unlock it all the time.
Mixed Difficulty Days
If it wouldn't interfere with the muscle-building algorithm/research behind the application, it would be nice if there were an option to have easy/medium/hard days intermixed.
Instead of having single days for each level of difficulty, every day a third of your exercises would be on their easy days, a third on medium, and a third on hard. You could still have each exercise go through its proper progression of the difficulty levels, but your whole body wouldn't be so overwhelmed on hard days. It would also make scheduling easier. Some days my workout takes 30 minutes, others 90.
It feels as though this would also help me progress more quickly. On hard upper-body days, I'm certain that my own overall exhaustion is taking away from my capabilities on the last 1-2 exercises.
For me at least, it would also help mentally. It is much tougher to get up the motivation to hit the gym when I know I have a hard day facing me. If every day had a few easy, a few medium, and a few hard exercises, it would be mentally less daunting.
Finally, it would also open up other exercise options. I tried switching over to the push/pull/legs plan but had to immediately switch back to upper/lower. There is just no way I'm going to give it my all on deadlifts and squats on the same day. Both exercises are simply too draining on a whole-body level for me. But, if one were on easy and the other hard? Then it would be possible.
Easy medium exercises make them based of the normal variant
Making the easy and medium exercises based on the last time you did the normal variant would give a lot more smoother and accurate weights and reps
it will also be an tremendous help with custom workouts and deloading protocols
easy: 5-6reps rir based of the last time you did the normal variant
medium: 3-4 reps rir based of the last time you did the normsl variant
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