Hi Mark,
Thanks for reporting that issue. We're on it. Someone from the team will be in touch shortly by email. In the future, please send all bug reports to support@drmuscleapp.com.
Best,
Carl
Video instructions
Just an idea for the video instructions to be under one press of a button instead of having to hit three dots and then find it at the bottom / usually my hands are shaking during workouts 😂
Best 🤜
Include Using Chains for X% of the Weight
I'm struggling at the bottom of many compound lifts (bench, squat, etc). This is especially problematic because I never have a spotter to help me push through those parts. I've decided to start using heavy weightlifting chains to provide adaptive weight changes through the lift and help prevent injuries at the bottom of the lift when I'm most susceptible. Hopefully, it will also help me challenge myself at the top of lifts without being overloaded at the bottom.
My (admittedly amateur) research tells me that the chains should be 10-20% of the weight in the lift. It would be nice if the application could consider this as an advanced option. Being able to provide the application with the specific chain weights I have available, just like I provide it with the plates I have available, would be great.
I have no doubt that my plan to replace 10-20% of the weight with chains on a few specific lifts will be sub-optimal when compared to what Dr. Muscle could do. I would love to have the application tell me that for the next lift, I should add X pounds of weight plates and Y pounds of chains.
Hi Joseph,
Thank you for your great question and for sharing your idea about using heavy weightlifting chains to enhance your lifts. I appreciate your enthusiasm for incorporating this advanced option into the application.
I'm always eager to receive feedback and ideas from users like yourself. We always takes into consideration the suggestions that receive the most votes from our user community, and I look forward to implementing this feature when it gains more popularity.
In the meantime, as a general recommendation, I suggest simply adding 50% of the weight of your chains to your total weight. For example, if your chains weigh 20 lbs on each side, that would be a total of 40 lbs. Adding 50% of this weight would be 20 lbs.
This makes sense given that in the end, you're always as strong as your weakest part of the lift (the bottom in the bench and squat). And at the bottom, you'll be lifting only about 50% of the weight of the chain.
I understand that this approach may not be as precise as you would like, but I hope it can serve as a helpful workaround until we can offer a more tailored solution. If you have any further questions or need additional assistance, please don't hesitate to reach out.
Keep up the great work and happy lifting!
Best regards,
Carl
Most popular 4 and 5 day splits.
Please add some of the more effective 4 and 5 day splits for those of us that like to split up the body regions.
Old school bro splits would be great. I have setup my own custom workout but would like to follow what the experts recommend for effective splits.
Workouts change when switching from home to gym
One thingbi notice if i change from location the workout(not just exercises change). As an example, i may have an upper body workout from a home location, but if i change to gym its a whole body workout.
Hi Wayne,
Yes, that's actually how the app works. Each gym profile has its own program. This lets you do a gym program at the gym and a bodyweight program at home (or on the road), for example.
But you can certainly do the same program in both locations. Just tap Settings and Change program. That will change the program for whatever profile you loaded when you opened the app that time.
I hope that makes sense!
I'm going to close this ticket. In the future, if you notice a bug, please email us at support@drmuscleapp.com. We try to keep this site for feature requests only.
All the best,
Carl Juneau, PhD
Hi Lucinda,
I'm happy to say we already have that feature! Tap More next to any exercise during any workout, and then Swap. The app will recommend other exercises for the same muscles. Including free weights and body weight options.
I hope that makes sense! I will mark this suggest as completed for now.
Thanks for taking the time,
Carl Juneau, PhD
Video glitch
After you watch an instruction video that is on YouTube there is a glitch coming back to the app. The screen size get messed up
Good news! We've resolved this in a recent update. The app no longer takes you to an external video on YouTube (it opens as an overlay inside the app instead for a smoother experience). I'm going to mark this as completed. If you still run into issues with audio, please email us at support@drmuscleapp.com.
Plate calculator
Thr App should remove the plate math you have to do to figure out say a 125lb lift. Instead of 125lbs it should know you have a 45lb bar and just say 40lb/side. Instead of 175 it says 65lb per side. The best app example is stacked by Michael Matthews. It is an amazing app for this.
An A+ version of this would be an option to select "rapid weight change" or something. This is because in the app it gets you to change your weight from say 165 (45+15) to 125 (40 per side). It would be ideal to do just switch from 165 to 135 so you could keep the 45lb plates on). I find I'm rushing around to swap weights. Essentially the app rounds to the nearest convenient weight.
Hi again Noah,
I'm happy to say that the app already has that feature.
Just tap the plate icon (top-right) during any workout to have your plates calculated automatically for you. You'll also see the plates between every set if you have the fullscreen timer on. You can toggle it on or off by tapping the timer icon (top-right) during any workout.
I'm going to mark this as completed for now. Please get in touch at support@drmuscleapp.com if I missed anything here.
All the best,
Carl
Turn off AI workout summary
The AI summary gets cheesy and is sometimes not useful. " you are up 5000%" I like the motivational quotes but we should be able to turn off the summary
Option to add exercises as well as sets to a saved "history" workout
Make the edit function include the option to add exercises as well as sets to a saved "history" workout. As far as I can see there is a way to edit weights and reps of what's been saved but the issue is when you lose stuff that has NOT been saved.
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