Add single rear delt pull
I found difficult to find mind muscle connection or find the required equipment for rear delt exercise.
Could you add this one: (min 3:07). Not sure how it is exactly called but it could be single rear delt pull
Hi Eduardo,
Thanks for your suggestion. I've added it to our roadmap. In the meantime, it's easy to add any number of custom exercises to your account. Here's how:
- Open the app
- On your home page, scroll all the way down
- Tap Exercises (bottom left)
- Tap the big plus button at the bottom right corner
And you'll be good to go!
Thanks so much for your support,
Carl
Excluding or unfavouring an exercise
In the excercise settings, it is possible to mark an excercise as favourite, but there is no option of excluding an excercise (or making the excercise un-favourite).
For example, I cannot do front squats due to an injury. I can of course swap the excercise manually, but it would be better if I could exclude the excercise so that the AI would not offer it to me, and at the same time it could take into account in the workout programming that I am using an alternative excercise (if the AI goes that deep). If I can rehabilitate my injury, I might be able to do front squats in the future, so I could remove the exclude mark.
Similarily, there might be an excercise I hate doing so I could mark it as unfavourite, and the AI would not recommend it often, but it would still not be completely excluded. Again, if the programming goes so deep that it builds workouts individually for each trainee - I have used the app only for few weeks, so I don't know if the app uses only cookie cutter templates, or if it builds the workouts individually after it gets enough data for the user.
Plate calculator should plan ahead all the sets
This issue has been addressed before, but I have also a new suggestion.
It would be a very welcame improvement, if the plate calculator could plan the plates ahead, for all of the sets. That way it would be easy to just add plates to the bar, with no need to remove the plates before putting new plates in. And if one uses lighter weight on the last set, the plate calculator could take that into account, so that you could achieve the weight of the last set just by removing the outermost plate(s). There would not be need to strip all of the plates before putting new ones to the bar.
I am experimenting to overcame the problem by using custom set style in barbell excercises and not using a lighter last set on them. It's easy to change weights with dumbbells and pulleys, so I'm using the lighter last set on those excercises.
Come to think about It, It would be a nice addition if one could choose set style based on excercise equipment so that on certain type of excercises the AI would offer one type of excercises/sets and on another type, another workout style. For example, straight sets on heavy compound exercises, and rest pause on others; or same weight on barbell excercises and lighter last set or pyramid sets on others. Would it make it too complicated?
Of course, the user can make the change on individual exercises manually.
Notes not showing in workout history
When I write notes on an excercise during a workout, the notes are there when I check it during the ongoing workout, but they are nowhere to be seen in workout history.
Reset start date
It seems that I have downloaded the app and created an account 50 weeks ago, but I have used the app and done the workouts less than two weeks (5 workouts so far). However, the AI seems to think that I have been training for almost a year on the program, and it keeps adjusting my caloric intake etc based on that and comparing my progress I have made in two weeks to the progress I should have done in a year.
Now that does not confuse me much, as I know where I stand, but it still would be nice to be able to reset the start date. I tried reconfiguring my account, but it did not change the start date.
Mark a meal as complete
I would like that a "completed" button gets added below each day to give the opportunity to the user to specify the day is finished.
whenever a day is marked as complete, the next day meal plan should be the by default view when the user goes to his meal plan.
Defining and renaming training locations
Under the Change equipment tab, it is possible define three different workout locations (gym, home & other). It would be nice, if one could rename the locations. It would be especially nice, if one trains at several different gyms.
Another improvement would be that in addition of defining the weight plates and dumbbells, one could also define which machines there are in the gym.
User generated variations / different machines
In my gym, there are four different leg press machines, and in another gym I train regularily, there are yet another two leg presses from different manufacturers. They might have a different resistance with the same weight because of mechanics, angle or weight of the sled, etc. Still, they are still all under the heading "leg press". The same goes with several pulleys; on one machine the same weight feels heavier than on another.
This creates a problem as the AI won't know whether I made more reps with a certain weight than last time because I am stronger, or because I used a different machine.
One solution would be to let the user create variations of excercises for each different machine, but the AI would treat them as the same exercise when it cames to progression. So, there would be user generated "leg press" for brand A leg press, another for brand B, and so on. However, the AI would treat all of them as "leg press". When the user progresses 1% in one variation, that would tranfer to all of the variations.
Hi Seppo,
Thanks for your suggestion.
It's easy to add any number of custom exercises to your account. Here's how:
- Open the app
- On your home page, scroll all the way down
- Tap Exercises (bottom left)
- Tap the big plus button at the bottom right corner
So, you can already create variations for your leg presses. But as you guessed, progression for custom exercises is independent. I look forward to this getting more votes so we can tie them together as you suggested.
Best,
Carl
Make warm-up adjustments influence the work set weights
There is no reason why the warmup sets (for those who decide or need to use them) should not affect the weights that are suggested in the working sets.
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