Thank you for your suggestion on how to best apply chains.  I want to be clear to make sure I fully understand.  With your suggestion on how to add the chain weights and the fact that I should be aiming for 10-20% of the total weight, if I were faced with a situation where Dr. Muscle recommended 200 pounds, I would drop 20 pounds off of that (10%), then add 40 pounds of chain (20%).   Meaning, that I would have 180 pounds of static weight and 40 pounds of dynamic chain weight when the application was asking for 200 pounds.

I know I won't be able to precisely hit those percentages, but does aiming as close as I can to that sound reasonable?

Thank you again,

Joe Williams

The application's support team got in contact with me and was able to track down the bug. The fix should be coming out soon.

After I spend a couple of weeks on "Buffed with bands" due to travel and go back to my previous program, will my progress still be saved?  I know the weights per exercise will, but I was a bit concerned about the application remembering I was in a strength phase, workouts until moving to the next level, etc.  I guess I just want to make sure the application will see this as a temporary hiatus from my main lifting program and not me giving up on it to start something else entirely.

My set has different colors, but they're labeled with specific weights.  Maybe the app could ask for your color/weights?  Or allow you to change the default?

For now, are we best off treating bands as dumbells, in terms of weight/rep recommendations from the app?  In about 1.5 months, I'll be traveling for a while and bought a nice band+bar set for the journey.  Should I go through and create custom exercises for "Curl (bands)",  "Squat (bands)",  etc to avoid interfering with my progress in free-weight exercises?  Is there a way to temporarily pause my progress in one full program and use another, again to avoid interfering with the first program's progress?

It stops any music any time the video scrolls back into view.  I often use Pandora or Audible during workouts; they get paused whenever the video becomes active.  This is especially annoying when you're doing 2 exercises interlaced between each other.  Anytime you scroll up or down and accidentally bring the video into view, you have to go restart your music.

It would be wonderful if a feature like this had some sort of travel-mode where it does its best to intelligently give you a challenging workout on equipment you've never used before and likely won't again.  Generally if I'm doing a workout at a hotel, I'll likely never see that hotel again and won't have time to build up a smart profile for the equipment available at this one particular location.

I don't use rest-pause sets in general or for these specific exercises.  The dramatic drop in reps-requested didn't occur when I indicated anything other than, "I could have done 5-6 more".

It's no big deal in any case, repeating the reps of the first set is simple enough.  If you're sure this isn't a bug, that's good enough.

I'm always able to advance on the easy exercises, but not always on the non-easy exercises.  Inevitably, this will lead to the easy exercises gradually catching up.  They go up by 2% or so each time while the standard exercise doesn't always, and sometimes even falls back a bit.

Thanks for the information, I'll reset.

Side note on this issue: I'm beginning to find that my "easy" workouts are very difficult, some even pushing me past failure. They advance much faster than the standard versions, and have mostly caught up.  I'm guessing that I'm now not getting the benefit of the occasional easy workout in there.

Is the proper course of action to reset the easy workout?  Is there a simple way to effectively tell it to "start over" based on my current hard-workout levels?