This app lets me focus on my workout
I just don't want to have to do the math to calculate all the warm-up and working weights and reps for my workouts. This app makes is easy to just walk in the the gym and focus on working hard. I'd easily spend more value trying to calculate and track myself. By making it easy, I'm more likely to work out which helps me hit my goals. And by tracking all my progress, I get this positive reinforcement loop that gets through plateaus. And thanks to the extensive library of programs, I've been able to seamlessly transition from novice (SSNLP) to intermediate (Texas Method) to advanced intermediate (5/3/1) in my lifting journey. Being able to adjust the workouts has helped as I aged and recovery got harder while still enabling progress. Great app and I can't recommended it enough.
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Great app
Been using this app for years and exactly what I need!
Amazing Workout App
I’ve used this app for the past 3 years and it has been absolutely brilliant. As someone who likes to customise and switch up their workouts regularly, the ability to build bespoke workouts or chose from an extensive catalog of pre-made plans is great! I’ve been using the premium version of the app for the last 2 years and it’s genuinely one of the best purchases I have made in terms of supporting my health and my lifting journey.
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Simple but wonderfully full featured
This is a stripped down light weight app, without the bloat of unnecessary exercise videos. This app will help you understand program design, exercise selection, how to balance volume, intensity and frequency plus log and track your workouts. Unfortunately they have gone the same greedy route as many others forcing you to rent the app with monthly/annual subscriptions instead of a one time fee. 👎 if not for this I would have bought it years ago! It’s crazy how so many app developers today think everyone has an infinite amount of disposable income for app subscriptions every year. 😥 I was forced to buy another amazing app called “FitNotes”. Unfortunately it’s inferior to this one but it was simply all I could afford, plus it’s only a one time fee.
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7 years and still nothing comparable (no subscription needed!!!)
I’ve been using this App for about 7 years now. Every few years I venture out to see if there’s maybe another app that’s a little more intuitive or user friendly, but I always come back to this bad boy. It seems like every app in the workout tracking realm charges some ridiculous subscription for basic functionality like a plate calculator or customizing your workout plans. I paid my one time fee for the premium version of this app years ago and have never looked back. If you’re looking for something that’s going to give you basic statistics, track your workouts, and allow you to build custom programs, this is it.
What I’d like to see added:
- a little more modernized. It could use a facelift and some more user friendly interfaces.
- The ability to make notes for specific workout exercises instead of the entire workout day.
- The ability to make superset changes to my custom built programs without having to edit them and restart my entire program.
- I want the increment schemes and different progress schemes in general to be more understandable and user friendly.
Thank you for making this app, and not charging a subscription to use its functions. I always recommend it!
What I’d like to see added:
- a little more modernized. It could use a facelift and some more user friendly interfaces.
- The ability to make notes for specific workout exercises instead of the entire workout day.
- The ability to make superset changes to my custom built programs without having to edit them and restart my entire program.
- I want the increment schemes and different progress schemes in general to be more understandable and user friendly.
Thank you for making this app, and not charging a subscription to use its functions. I always recommend it!
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Excellent!
This is a fantastic app, especially if you’re an intermediate or advanced lifter and need an app to build/create your own workout. There are a few ‘pre-made’ workouts on there, but this isn’t really the apps strength. Same goes for exercises. There isn’t really a great range, but you can add your own very easily. Customisation is spot on! The ability to use amrap and percentage based training is excellent. Very few apps allow for this.
Would be a 5 star review, but for some reason, the app doesn’t recalculate percentages if you change the weight of an exercise during a workout. For example, if 100% weight is 100kg, 90% would be 90kg (obvs). But if you change that top weight, all sets will show as that weight, so you have to recalculate manually and change each one as you go. This isn’t the end of the world, but is a little inconvenient if all of your training is percentage based.
All in all though, a fantastic app. I haven’t found one that comes close for customisation. Highly recommend.
Would be a 5 star review, but for some reason, the app doesn’t recalculate percentages if you change the weight of an exercise during a workout. For example, if 100% weight is 100kg, 90% would be 90kg (obvs). But if you change that top weight, all sets will show as that weight, so you have to recalculate manually and change each one as you go. This isn’t the end of the world, but is a little inconvenient if all of your training is percentage based.
All in all though, a fantastic app. I haven’t found one that comes close for customisation. Highly recommend.
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Works well, except…
Overall I really like this workout app. It doesn’t collect a bunch of information from you and isn’t bloated. The one problem I have is I changed phones and it won’t import my .workout file to my current phone. It says to contact Admin. I’ve tried two different workout files with the same error.
Perfect for strength training. Nothing better!
As a software engineer myself, this is the exact app I’ve wanted to build for some time. I’ve been using this app since before it was called PERSEUS and it does exactly what I need. Very few bugs, and my guess is, if I was diligent enough to file a bug report it’d be addressed immediately.
I’ve done many programs on here, and created my own. I’ve been thrilled to see they’re all in line with the program specs, they reliably load and deload weight properly (even between cycles), and I’ve never had trouble with any data getting lost or corrupted. Super cool! Highly recommend!!!
I’ve done many programs on here, and created my own. I’ve been thrilled to see they’re all in line with the program specs, they reliably load and deload weight properly (even between cycles), and I’ve never had trouble with any data getting lost or corrupted. Super cool! Highly recommend!!!
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Such a good app
One of my favourite gym log apps! The number of features which have been added over the past couple of years have been great! Love the way you can edit pre-set programs to adapt to your body!
Phenomenal App With Amazing Support
I’ve been using this app for a few years now. I have tried a lot of workout logging applications and this is by far the best workout app I’ve used, bar none. It is so easy to select from a range of high quality preset workout programs but also design your own programs. Regardless of which option you go with, you can very effortlessly customize everything about your workout, from the reps/sets of each exercise to the weight increase increments to the multi-step rest duration. I especially love that there is an AMRAP option for whichever sets you want, which is not a feature that works as well in some of the other apps! The app is also exceptionally usable even in its free form, with most features available to all users (although I recommend donating/buying Pro to support the developers). Having had the app for a few years, I have also noticed that the app subtly but meaningfully has improved over time, while still staying true to what it is. By far though, the best feature about this app is the developer support. I’ve contacted the developer multiple times for various reasons and I have always found them to be very responsive and helpful. If you have issues with the app or suggestions for improvement, they will always be receptive to it and take your feedback into consideration. I cannot recommend this app enough. It’s the best workout app I’ve found.
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