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Add in weekly body composition and photos to measure results!

Chris Kostoff 4 years ago updated by Ismar I 1 year ago 1

Eve or Dr Muscle should be working together not in isolation: One of them should save photos and body composition to track or progress!

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Add in Advanced Bodybuilding Workouts! Split Routines

Chris Kostoff 4 years ago 0

Add in new workout splits beyond the same old Full Body and Upper/Lower BodyBuilding Splits.  Jazz it up with more detailed focus on muscles groups for advanced bodybuilders and for variety.

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More Home Gym Workout Options for Bodybuilding and Finess

Chris Kostoff 4 years ago updated by Kevin Gale 4 years ago 0
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Show last sessions logs while doing exercises

Eduardo A. 4 years ago 0

Access to last sessions logs while doing exercises. At least the last 3-5, but it should be great to access to all of them.

Only showing the 3 last workouts doesn’t seem enough to me. Example: if I have a deload of 2 weeks it will be hard to interpret the data.

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Less agressive marketing

Martin Hayes 5 years ago updated by Carl Juneau, PhD 5 years ago 3

A prime example is the 5 steps of trying to add things to my final bill when checking out for the app. I'd had a fairly lengthy discussion with marketing about the monthly cost as I'm a student with sorely limited income. After arranging a deal on the price, I then almost quit when trying to complete it due to the Just 4 more clicks through stuff I can't afford before we'll let you buy the one thing you want!

Maybe it's just me?

Answer
Carl Juneau, PhD 5 years ago

Thx for your honest feedback guys. I know some people dislike seeing things to add to their order like that. Other people actually add them -- some subscribers switched from monthly to annual that way and are happy customers today. The extra revenue helps us fund better features for the app, so everyone benefits. It's a hard balance to strike. Still, I can understand you didn't like the process, so I'll keep that in mind for when we redesign it. For now, I'm marking this as completed -- moving forward let's keep this forum for feature requests. Cheers.

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Fullscreen buttons for feedback on how hard the sets were

P P 5 years ago 0

Hi,

I noticed a recurring pattern of errors on my part recently, when I'm providing the app feedback on how much further
can I push. After finishing the 2 warm up sets and subsequently the first proper work set, a list box appears asking whether I can do more. Invariably, probably because of my shaky hands, I've unintentionally selected the wrong option. I was wondering if squares instead of a text list can be leveraged here.

[Edit: Carl asked for a mock-up.]

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Show selected exercises shown at the top of the screen when creating custom workouts

Barrett Roberts 5 years ago updated by Carl Juneau, PhD 4 years ago 1

When editing workouts I would suggest that you have the currently selected exercises shown at the top of the screen where you add exercises. It’s cumbersome to select exercises then have to go to the next screen to see the list. Just a suggestion.

Answer
Carl Juneau, PhD 4 years ago

Thank you for your suggestion Barrett. This was released in a recent update. I'm marking it as completed.

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Start timer for side 2 after you've said that you've finished side 1 for unilateral exercises

Jamie Thompson 5 years ago updated by Carl Juneau, PhD 5 years ago 3

In unilateral exercises, after the allotted sets on one side, the timer starts counting down for the start of the next side, but that happens before you’ve either chosen ‘finish side 1’ or ‘add extra set’. It would seem to make sense to start the timer for side 2 after you’ve said that you’ve finished side 1.

Say the app suggests for each side a set of 12 followed by a rest-pause set of 4. When you have done the first set of 12 and set of 4 for the left side, the full-screen timer tells you that you are going to do a set of 12 next (ie for the right side). But once the timer finishes, the next thing the user needs to do is either ‘add a set’ for the left side (in which case the number of reps on the timer is wrong) or ‘finish side 1’ for the left side, ie nothing to do with the right side! To me, it would make more sense to let the user decide if the next step is ‘add a set’ or ‘finish side 1’ before running the full-screen timer.

One option would be to treat the end of the allotted sets for the first side the same as you treat the end of a normal bilateral exercise. ie Start the timer at the end of the final allotted rest-pause set of the left side, but don't show it full-screen (only show at the top of the screen) until the user chooses either 'add a set' or 'finish side 1'. That way, you always get the timer when you save a set, but you're not being given an incorrect number of reps for the case where you wish to do an extra set.

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Carl Juneau, PhD 5 years ago

Hi Jamie,

The app now only shows the fullscreen timer after you tap "Finish side 1". Does the current behaviour look good to you?

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Revise overtraining protection for split programs

Cristian Coban 6 years ago updated by Carl Juneau, PhD 6 years ago 1

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.

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Carl Juneau, PhD 6 years ago

Good point Cristian: we built that feature (and those comments) with the full-body program in mind. We could certainly have a separate set of recommendations for users on a split-body program.

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Edit exercise setup popup for exercises that don't use dumbbells

Derek Casari 6 years ago 0

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

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