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.
Resistance bands
When using resistance bands the app only increases the reps in terms of progression which gets silly after a while. Wouldn't it be possible to add the option of entering the resistance of the bands (like kg with the weights). So when you get stronger you use tougher bands and not just do more errors with the same resistance and you can actually enter that
Thanks for your suggestion Michaela.
I can definitely see how it would improve the app. I'm also happy to say it's already gotten some votes at https://muscle.userecho.com/communities/1/topics/331-bands-colour-options. Please vote for the original. As always, we implement suggestions with the most votes first, and only customers like yourself get to vote. I'm going to close this one for now.
Best,
Carl
Could you develop a program to follow for people with a rotator cuff injury that avoids anything that stress the shoulder?
I have a rotator cuff injury and so I think I need to avoid bench press, shoulder press, deadlifts and squats, but I'd still like to train. Could you develop a feature where you say what injury you have and the app switches some exercises out and others in?
Intensity of warm-up sets for bodyweight exercises
I've noticed that it doesn't make sense to have warm-up sets for bodyweight exercises. For example, if you're first working set of pull-ups is 11 reps, surely you wouldn't want to do 2 sets with 6 and then 9 reps prior to your working set...
Hi Michaela,
We do recommend warming up, even for bodyweight exercises To give you a bit of context, in a systematic review, McCrary et al. (2015) found “strong research-based evidence” that “warm-ups enhance power and strength performance.” In a meta-analysis, Fradkin et al. (2010) found that “Warm-up was shown to improve performance in 79% of the criterions examined.”
With that said, if you find it's not having much of an impact on your performance, you could save time by doing just one warm-up set (or even 0). Here's how:
Tap Settings (bottom bar)
Scroll down to Sets
Next to Warm-up sets, enter 1 (or 0)
Tap Save
You can also customise those at the exercise level by tapping More and Settings next to any exercise during any workout.
All the best,
Carl
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