Entraînement
Le débit de voix est un peu rapide, surtout quand on débute
Payment
I would like to receive a refund. I was sold on a monthly subscription based on the annual fee of $47.99+tax. Yet my credit card was charged in full. I cancelled the subscription and deleted the app. Please refund my credit card for a minimum of 12 months plus tax.
wait for what cool down? written to support with questions to no avail
The workouts in Asana Rebel are really great, especially if you need a short but effective one, and to supplement other kinds of exercise. I’m starting this again after losing conditioning so looking forward to building up strength with this. One thing I am missing is, at the end of the workout it will say “wait for the cool down” and then nothing. I will have to look through the workouts myself to find something which may or may not equate to a “cool down.” Perhaps I am remembering incorrectly, but I thought the last time I subscribed that it automatically linked to a cool down? I can do it myself, I have done my own “cool downs” but that’s not what I’m paying for.
Also, written to support at least three times with simple questions (that I think I might have figured out just don’t have the answer i am looking for but don’t know). I have never received a response. For an app with paid content and a subscription I find that terrible customer service. I feel like they dropped the ball on this app, not the fault of the trainers who designed the workouts - which are a pretty great combination of yoga and strength training that you do not see many other places.
Also, written to support at least three times with simple questions (that I think I might have figured out just don’t have the answer i am looking for but don’t know). I have never received a response. For an app with paid content and a subscription I find that terrible customer service. I feel like they dropped the ball on this app, not the fault of the trainers who designed the workouts - which are a pretty great combination of yoga and strength training that you do not see many other places.
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Elegant Design, Great Content + Room for Improvement
I’ve recently installed Asana Rebel and straight away signed up for the premium subscription because it’s great value for money and the content quality is really high. The app takes a holistic view to health and has some nice resources for cooking, meditation and other wellness areas.
There are a few areas where I think this app could be enhanced. Firstly, when doing a workout for the first time, a tutorial of the movements would be quite nice; although I’m a qualified personal trainer, I found myself looking at the phone constantly to check the movements and understand if the programme had moved forward, so I think an optional introduction to new movements could be useful (just like the optional warm up). Secondly, I feel the challenges could be better integrated into the main feed; I’ve selected one of the challenges and ideally, I want a daily reminder or at least a visual trigger in the feed, but, I’m having to manually navigate to the challenges section to start day 2, 3 etc (also, days don’t record if you skip the cool down, would be great to make warm up and cool down optional).
Apart from that, it’s a really nice app and I look forward to seeing some further investment in this app.
There are a few areas where I think this app could be enhanced. Firstly, when doing a workout for the first time, a tutorial of the movements would be quite nice; although I’m a qualified personal trainer, I found myself looking at the phone constantly to check the movements and understand if the programme had moved forward, so I think an optional introduction to new movements could be useful (just like the optional warm up). Secondly, I feel the challenges could be better integrated into the main feed; I’ve selected one of the challenges and ideally, I want a daily reminder or at least a visual trigger in the feed, but, I’m having to manually navigate to the challenges section to start day 2, 3 etc (also, days don’t record if you skip the cool down, would be great to make warm up and cool down optional).
Apart from that, it’s a really nice app and I look forward to seeing some further investment in this app.
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Response from developer
We really appreciate the constructive feedback! Our team is constantly looking for ways to improve the app. We'll be sure to pass it on to the right people.
Still no access
I bought a year membership. The purchases went through and my credit card was charged. Now it's days later and I still don't have access to the content and no one is replying to my emails. Will have to go through my credit card company to cancel this purchase.
NOT for beginners
Saw ads on Facebook and Instagram and based on those thought this would be a good way to get in shape and incorporate/ learn yoga moves. There is only one challenge for beginners and it definitely is not beginner friendly. You need to have an understanding of yoga jargon. They go quickly from move to move and if you don’t know what they are talking about or have particularly good balance you will fall or fall behind like myself and be frustrated. There isn’t a lot of time to work on correct posture or guidance as to what that should be as they move through things quickly. If you are in decent shape have good balance, knowledgeable about yoga poses, and are a quick learner this would be great challenging workouts.
There is a nutrition and mindfulness component. I’m not sure that I would call it particularly useful as you can find similar recipes and mindfulness ideas for free online.
As a complete beginner after trying 2 different workouts without any successful ( fell trying to watch and move through one flow and tweaked back trying to see what pose should look like) I regret spending the money.
There is a nutrition and mindfulness component. I’m not sure that I would call it particularly useful as you can find similar recipes and mindfulness ideas for free online.
As a complete beginner after trying 2 different workouts without any successful ( fell trying to watch and move through one flow and tweaked back trying to see what pose should look like) I regret spending the money.
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Expected to pay $60 upfront without even a trial
Ok app, it has a nice idea but I think it could be better if
1. they offered more for free. I’m not even being cheap, it seems the only option is the free app or $60 per year. Paying $60 up front for something I barely know anything about is a lot to ask, wish there was at least like a monthly subscription for $10 or a one week free trial or something because there’s hardly anything free on this app (one focusing song, three workouts (2 of which of 5 mins, the other 6 mins), one guided meditation, etc). You can only get about a day’s use out of this app before you have to pay to access more.
2. Apparently in older versions of this app there was an option to make a daily plan for yourself over the following weeks to help reach your goals. I was actually searching for something just like that when I came across this app! I would love if that were brought back. Right now it kinda forces you to only look at what you’re meant to do at that exact time of day. Not a big fan, but I kinda see the benefits of this more minimalistic, laid-back approach as well.
Otherwise, this app is pretty cool, but I only downloaded it yesterday and it doesn’t look like it’ll be staying on my phone much longer.
1. they offered more for free. I’m not even being cheap, it seems the only option is the free app or $60 per year. Paying $60 up front for something I barely know anything about is a lot to ask, wish there was at least like a monthly subscription for $10 or a one week free trial or something because there’s hardly anything free on this app (one focusing song, three workouts (2 of which of 5 mins, the other 6 mins), one guided meditation, etc). You can only get about a day’s use out of this app before you have to pay to access more.
2. Apparently in older versions of this app there was an option to make a daily plan for yourself over the following weeks to help reach your goals. I was actually searching for something just like that when I came across this app! I would love if that were brought back. Right now it kinda forces you to only look at what you’re meant to do at that exact time of day. Not a big fan, but I kinda see the benefits of this more minimalistic, laid-back approach as well.
Otherwise, this app is pretty cool, but I only downloaded it yesterday and it doesn’t look like it’ll be staying on my phone much longer.
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Losing its way?
On the very positive side, having set myself a reminder to do yoga every day I'm now on a streak of over 160 days. So Asana Rebel is certainly helping me stay strong and flexible.
But now to the things that seem to be slipping:
- There seems to be less and less focus on yoga under the exercise section. There's an excellent "foundations" collection that genuinely seems to be yoga, but a lot of collections are basically HIIT workouts.
- Some of my favourite workouts have been retired from the navigation (though fortunately I have been able to find them by digging through my workout history)
- Editing is pretty poor in recent workouts - sometimes the instructor spends twice as long on one side of the body as the other, for example.
- The daily questions are just annoying and pointless. Why not replace that with a daily reminder to do a workout?
- The descriptions and classifications are pretty meaningless - very hard to know in advance whether you're really getting a gentle stretch or a hard abs workout. The "intensity" indicator has gone AWOL from navigation.
- Didn't there used to be a list of poses? Please bring that back!
I don't know why AR decided to stop focusing on yoga (which it was really good at) and try to be some kind of general "lifestyle" app. My guess is a bad steer from the VCs behind it, and product management who don't know how to focus on doing one thing well.
But now to the things that seem to be slipping:
- There seems to be less and less focus on yoga under the exercise section. There's an excellent "foundations" collection that genuinely seems to be yoga, but a lot of collections are basically HIIT workouts.
- Some of my favourite workouts have been retired from the navigation (though fortunately I have been able to find them by digging through my workout history)
- Editing is pretty poor in recent workouts - sometimes the instructor spends twice as long on one side of the body as the other, for example.
- The daily questions are just annoying and pointless. Why not replace that with a daily reminder to do a workout?
- The descriptions and classifications are pretty meaningless - very hard to know in advance whether you're really getting a gentle stretch or a hard abs workout. The "intensity" indicator has gone AWOL from navigation.
- Didn't there used to be a list of poses? Please bring that back!
I don't know why AR decided to stop focusing on yoga (which it was really good at) and try to be some kind of general "lifestyle" app. My guess is a bad steer from the VCs behind it, and product management who don't know how to focus on doing one thing well.
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Response from developer
Hi, We really appreciate the constructive feedback! Our team is constantly looking for new ways to improve the app so they'll be super pleased to read this. If you have anything else to share, give us a shout! Thanks again and namaste, The Asana Rebel Team
Disappointed lately with the new updated version
I loved the exercises that the app offered a few years ago. Since then, a few updates have taken place which means that my favourites are in the past ones in settings, and I have to get them there more than being able to enjoy the sets directly from the main page.
Secondly, all those new sets are quite hardcore to follow as they don’t always offer a preview and they do them very quickly- it means I have no time to enjoy them, and I’m probably not doing them well neither.
I don’t like how the new sets are presented and it would be nice if the old ones could still appear on the main page of the app so I don’t have to go back to another folder to get them.
Secondly, all those new sets are quite hardcore to follow as they don’t always offer a preview and they do them very quickly- it means I have no time to enjoy them, and I’m probably not doing them well neither.
I don’t like how the new sets are presented and it would be nice if the old ones could still appear on the main page of the app so I don’t have to go back to another folder to get them.
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Flawed subscription system/horrible user interfaice
I am beyond annoyed and flustered at Asana Rebel’s billing. No less than 4 times have I purchased a subscription at what is billed the “premium” package, only to be denied workouts and forced to buy a more expensive package that is the “true premium” or “unlock everything” package. This has resulted in over $250 in losses over the course of a year, via purchasing the “same product” over and over again. I have cancelled all subscriptions and will not be using this product again.
I’ve found the workouts to be sufficiently challenging and a nice variety, but interacting with the screen at any point in the workout proves to be impossible. If you need time between movements/a movement is too much to do in a given moment, trying to pause for a breath can result in you missing an entire exercise, as the screen does not register your touches, which results in my personal frustration for needing to fiddle with both the pause button and the time icon/bar trying to recover that exercise.
Unless sufficient software repairs are made to this app for its billing and interface, I would not recommend it. Decent content does not counterbalance a customer’s user experience.
I’ve found the workouts to be sufficiently challenging and a nice variety, but interacting with the screen at any point in the workout proves to be impossible. If you need time between movements/a movement is too much to do in a given moment, trying to pause for a breath can result in you missing an entire exercise, as the screen does not register your touches, which results in my personal frustration for needing to fiddle with both the pause button and the time icon/bar trying to recover that exercise.
Unless sufficient software repairs are made to this app for its billing and interface, I would not recommend it. Decent content does not counterbalance a customer’s user experience.
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