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Incremental Behavior in Challenges

Marc David 6 years ago 0

The incremental behavior is fixed in workouts. Awesome. But I do see this in challenges. Which are awesome!

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Improve the "manage workouts" and "manage exercises" menus

John Kaplan 6 years ago updated 6 years ago 6

As a new user, the distinction between "Manage workouts" and Manage exercises" is not clear.  So the app's first page the new user sees, no matter how attractive it is, is confusing.

And for the experienced user, the first page generally accomplishes nothing.  It's just an extra tap.

Suppose I, as a new user, decide to explore the two manage options.  I tap one and see Dr. Muscle and Custom.  So I go back and try the other.  Once again I see Dr. Muscle and Custom.  My little exploration showed me there is no difference.
So I decide to try again but deeper.  I try the first and Dr. Muscle.  I see Gym, Home gym, and Bodyweight.  That makes sense.  Then I back all the way out and try the second button and Dr. Muscle.  Wow!  All I see here is an overwhelmingly long list that with no obvious use.

So I back out again and this time look at the two Custom options.  The first has two blank lists headed "Workouts" and "Programs"  Then reflecting on the first buttons, they said Workouts and Exercises, now there are Programs also and I still don't know what any if them mean.  Plus, the main button said it's about managing workouts, and now it seems to be about managing programs too.

So I try the other and find I'm directed to create an exercise, and I still don't know what one is.  But I'm left with the puzzle of how these exercises are related to the other button's workouts, and where do programs fit in?

Unfortunately that over-long stream of consciousness pretty is much my initial (and current) impressions, so any suggestions I might have are probably wrong, but here goes anyway.

A manage button might display this operating explanation: "A workout is a group of exercises.  Select from this list of workouts or enter a name to create a new one ______."

(If a name is given, give the option of selecting from the list or entering   a name of their own creation.)  (this would be repeated until the user taps a Finish button. etc.

If I happened to have accurately described workouts and exercises, they appear to be so closely related that dividing them between two separate, top-level buttons only confuses their relationship.

I also suspect that few users will tweak beyond this.  My guess is that a Program is a collection of workouts.   While it might seem inconsistent to separate programs from workouts, but if most users don't create programs, separating it keeps it from cluttering up workout creation.

Regarding the second level of choice between Dr. Muscle and Custom, If I understand them correctly, separating them is artificial.    Every program, workout, or exercise should be equally available to the user who is building his own structure.  Separating them at a higher level prevents the user from building a program combining Dr. Muscle and his own workouts.

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Fixed

Odd Incremental Behavior

Marc David 6 years ago updated by Carl Juneau, PhD 6 years ago 1

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Carl Juneau, PhD 6 years ago

Thanks for reporting that one Marc -- it's getting fixed in today's update. I'm marking it as "Completed".

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Settings interface: change toggle switch for single drop down

Andrew Coven 6 years ago 0

The settings interface isn’t compliant with simple user interface guidelines. The toggle switch is for optional selections, it’s not the correct button to use for mutually exclusive selections. Use radio buttons or a drop down for that. An example of this is the background. That should just be a single drop down with the one selection.

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iPhone SE Manage Workouts

Marc David 6 years ago 0

Click Manage Workouts — Dr Muscle — 

You’ll see or not see the Bodyweight button on the iPhone SE. 

Top half is there but it doesn’t show. It does work if you click. Takes you to manage body weight workouts. 

UI design bug

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Completed

How to Re-Do an Exercise While in a Session

Marc David 6 years ago updated by Carl Juneau, PhD 6 years ago 1

Finish a set say Bench Press.


I want to do it over.   Maybe I didn't get the machine I wanted.  Whatever.  If I go back to Bench Press, it sets me up in that session for the next workout.  But I want to edit the entire exercise, delete what I did and start over without it moving to the next session.

How do I erase after finishing that exercise and start over?

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Carl Juneau, PhD 6 years ago

Hi Marc,

To do that, head over to your logs, and delete your entry for that exercise on that day. Here's how:

Top-right menu >

My progression >

Logs (top nav) >

Scroll to your exercise (or specific sets) >

Tap "..." >

Tap "Delete"

Next, return to your workout, and do that exercise again.

I'm marking this idea as completed. Please email support (support@drmuscleapp.com) if you have more questions about that (lots of customers get an email notification when you post something here; please only suggest new features here).

All the best,

Carl

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Declined

No need RPE message when number of reps is not reached

Yohann 6 years ago updated by Carl Juneau, PhD 6 years ago 3

When we don't reach the number of reps asked for the first set, the app shouldn't ask us if it was hard or if we could have made more reps, it seems obvious it was too hard :)

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Carl Juneau, PhD 6 years ago

Hi Yohann,

I can understand your point, but as Glen said, sometimes people will do fewer reps than recommended for other reasons than all-out failure. In those cases, I still want them to be able to tell the app how many reps they had in reserve.


You said you don't really understand it, so if you'd like to read more about this concept, you can check out:


http://drmuscleapp.com/news/reps-in-reserve/ ("If your sets are easy and you have many reps in reserve, Dr. Muscle will push you harder. If your sets are hard and you have zero reps in reserve, Dr. Muscle won’t increase your weight at all.")

https://www.strongerbyscience.com/weekly-load-progression/ (see section 3, "Rating of Perceived Exertion (RPE)")

I'm going to mark your suggestion as declined for now, but I'm open to changing that in the future if need be.

Thank you,


Carl

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Completed

Maybe some videos showing correct form

Mathew Ryan 6 years ago updated by Carl Juneau, PhD 6 years ago 2

Maybe some videos showing correct form  

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Carl Juneau, PhD 6 years ago

Hi Mathew,

Thank you for your suggestion. It's already been suggested. Please vote for the original suggestion here: https://muscle.userecho.com/communities/1/topics/12-images-or-videos-for-exercises. It already has quite a few votes ;)

I'm closing off this suggestion to prevent duplicates.

Cheers,

Carl

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Make a lower body work out more glute focused (for women)

Florence Lightfoot 6 years ago updated by tomislav stanimirovic 6 years ago 2

I have swapped out some of the leg exercises to make the lower body work out more glute focused, I think it would be useful if there was a work out like this on the app.

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Not a bug

Rest timer starts when "All Sets Done" message displays

Glen Acord 6 years ago updated by Carl Juneau, PhD 6 years ago 3

Today I used version 2.5.20 for my workout. When I saved what I thought was the last set of the exercise (and the "All Sets Done" message displayed), the rest timer started again. This was confusing because it sent the mixed-message that I was supposed to do another set.

So I don't believe the rest timer should start running after saving the last set of an exercise.