I like the workouts.. I like the plans.
I don’t like that there isn’t a variety of short workouts to choose from. Like if I do 3 leg days I want to have maybe 2 ab and 2 upper days that are like 10-20 mins.
Wish there was better filters when searching
Wish the planner was more extensive
Wish there were video workouts to follow along with like her YouTube at home workouts. Idk. I wanna have the app but for what I see, the price isn’t worth it. Just lacking a lot. Feels like it should’ve been tested more.
I like the workouts in the app as well as the meal prep options, but it’s a little slow in loading your workout for the day, it would be cool if the timer continued when you exited the app, and would love to see a weight recording option!
Not bad for a new app but would like to see the following features incorporated:
- Pausing workouts
- Restarting weekly plans
- Audio tempo beats (hard to look at the screen to make sure I’m on tempo while working out)
I’ve been following Sophie on IG for forever and was so excited to see that she released an app!
I’ve done 2 workouts so far and flipped through the rest of my program to see what changes there would be in the coming weeks. I chose to do the hourglass program and it looks like the workouts are the same for 3 weeks, then keep changing a bit every 3 or so weeks until you hit 10 weeks. I don’t mind that the program is repetitive, because that’s how you gain muscle. However, I’m not sure if I’ll keep this app after the 2 week trial because of a few things:
1) I don’t like that the rest timer doesn’t let me leave the app lol when I’m resting, I’ll usually go on my Instagram or check my emails. I’d like it better if the timer could keep going in the background and go off when it’s ready. I’ve been setting my own timer on my phone’s timer to do that.
2) when I mark the exercise as done on my day’s workout plan, it should go to the next exercise — not back to the workout list. It’s kind of annoying having to mark done then scroll down to find your next exercise. I also noticed the app maybe glitches a bit and the exercise I marked done is no longer done, so I mark it again.
3) I wish there was an option to mark down what weight I used at each set as I go through the workout. This would help me remember what weight I can use next time or even what weight I could push it to next time. It would also make the app double as a fitness journal!
4) what does tempo mean?! I know from following Sophie that she likes to play around with the tempo of the exercises to maximize gainz… but there’s no explanation for what those numbers mean??? Not even when I press the little question mark next to it. If you’re going to incorporate exercise tempo into the workout, there needs to be an explanation for what each of the numbers mean in “3001”.
I haven’t gotten to try any of the recipes yet, but they all look great!
I want to love this app and keep it, but we’ll see how I feel after my 2 week trial is over.
love this app! have followed her youtube forever & so happy to have this now. great workout & meal plan set up with delicious recipes & a beautiful user face!
Developer Response
Thank you so much for your kind feedback! We appreciate it a lot!I was so excited to learn this app was released! After downloading and looking through a few features I have some feedback.
- There is no way to view a full recipe. Actually anything that has too much text has ‘…’ after it and there is no where you can click that shows the complete text.
- The first few days there were a TON of recipes, which I was really excited about because they looked great. Now, a lot of those recipes seem to be missing.
- Also, if you favorite a recipe there’s no way to go back and find it.
- Since Sophie has her workout YT channel and home program on her site I assumed there would be some home workouts available for the app, but sadly there aren’t. For days I don’t go to the gym the app won’t be very useful.
- I love the motivation behind the workout titles, but it’s very confusing to know what the workout entails without clicking on it which is a bit cumbersome.
- A weight tracker with each exercise would be great to track progress.
It’s hard to pay for a subscription for an app that has small but really noticeable bugs/issues that need to be addressed. I’ve been waiting what feels like years for this app to drop so I’m hoping there are some updates to make the app more user friendly!
It would be nice to restart your workout plan/my schedule is starting on week 2. I initially started the program a week before I got my gym membership because I wanted to check out the app. Now it continues to progress the weeks on my schedule even though I haven’t started. Not sure how to restart the program from week 1 day 1. I tried switching program regiments and it started me on week 2 on the schedule (my original plan was on week 3 at the time). Both programs seemed to skip week 1 on the schedule.
Developer Response
Thank you so much for your feedback! If you go to profile and click on change your active program, you'll be able to go through the onboarding process again and pick a new program. It will refresh your program and you'll start from day 1 again. If you need help, please email us at support@gainsbybrains.com and we'll make sure everything will work for you! I’m absolutely loving the app. Just some thoughts to make the app more user friendly:
1. There’s no option for a rest countdown after the last rep before the next exercise. Would be great to have this feature. I use my Apple Watch timer as a workaround.
2. Rest countdown — allow option to select an alternative rest time. Sometimes I don’t wait a full 2.5 minutes but 1.5-2 instead. I’ve been following the suggested times but i feel like I’m living at the gym a lot longer. If we should truly do the longer period would be great to know why a 2.5 versus 1.5 rest period.
3. Rest countdown — app pauses if you leave the app. Allow the timer to continue to run in the background. There are times I want to change a song, podcast, etc. out of the GB app and know the true time in lieu of paused time.
4. Sound (chime) after the timer finishes would be great too!
5. Hard to navigate to the next workout in a sequence. When I mark complete on the last workout I’m having to search for the next workout. Would be great if the app advanced to the next workout option automatically instead of having to locate. It’s harder in the warmup and cooldown sections to find.
Overall I’m extremely pleased!!! Thank you so much!! A lot of work went into the time, filming and development. I’m beyond impressed and happy and can’t wait to see my transformation! And that of the app as it’s hot off the press!
What I love most, is having Sophie train *with* me during all my workouts—modeling technique, form. Kudus and congratulations to Sophie.
Developer Response
Thank you so much for your kind words and feedback! It helps us a lot with improving everyone's experience. All things mentioned are on our roadmap, and we'll do our best to update the app as soon as we can!!It’s very user unfriendly. I couldn’t figure out how to navigate the fitness program. Please update and I’ll resubscribe.
Developer Response
We're sorry to hear that you don't find the app user friendly. It's our mission to make sure that everyone gets the best experience using the app, and we'll keep working on bug fixes and adding more features to make sure we reach this goal. Hope to see you back in the future! Really wanted to try the app, so I immediately downloaded and signed up after hearing about the release. But guess I didn’t get my pw right when signing up and now I can’t log in. After clicking the reset password button in the pw reset email, it took me directly back to the app, but the reset pw screen slid right back down, which made it impossible to reset pw. Hope that bug can be fixed soon.
Developer Response
We are sorry to hear that you're experiencing issues. We are working on a fix already and will be out very soon. Please feel free to reach out to us at support@gainsbybrains.com for any other issues you might face. Thank you!
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