Issues
I wanted to love this app but logging food is not super easy and the data base isn’t near as complete as I would like it to be.
ANAYA
I just paid for my 3rd year with Grounds. When I tell you the community is everything, it’s everything. Anaya has always helped me with any assistance I may need. Recently, my app was glitching on payments and she was THE MOST PATIENT. I’m proud to celebrate my 3rd year with the best girlies.
Great start
Overall, it’s a nice app. Has a great selection of workouts, love the programs and the ability to swap out exercises. I also like the logging experience. My criticisms are mostly about the flexibility. I can’t find a way to build my own workouts or take the program workout as a starter and delete or skip sets. I have max an hour of time and there is no way I can do 25 sets using machinery in a public gym in less than an hour. The sheet interaction and UX in general is also a bit fumbly. Last note, I’d like the option to minimize the preview video of the exercise. Overall, there are great pieces of the app and I’m excited to see how it improves overtime, you can tell a lot of thought went into it. <3
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Not for beginners
This app is geared toward young gym girlies who are already in great condition. Unfortunately I am not, which is fine. It’s just not for me. My issue is customer service. I messaged them about paying for an entire year for an app that I don’t want because I did the trial but got automatically charged for a year. My mistake. Just would’ve appreciated some kind of response or suggestion for use.
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One Stop Shop Fitness App!
Amazing workouts, instructions for form, and diet tracking. I especially love that it times out the rest periods & has tracking for the weight you use to track your progress. 10/10!!!
Workout length estimates are incorrect
The workouts are very long and take at least 90 mins (which isn’t the worst thing alone, but the estimates given say they are 35-45 mins and then you open them up and it’s not the case. Also expensive. I’m a student (overseas) and it’s not worth it. Also not user friendly when trying to log your weights, you can’t just click on the one you want to log, you have to go through the whole workout-very annoying. Hopefully they improve.
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Great for beginners, meh for everyone else
This app has great beginner-friendly workouts that you will enjoy at the start of using it. But after a few months, it all becomes mundane. You will find workout challenges are copy/pasted from prior months and it becomes bland. The app updates often and you have to manually update it even when auto updates are enabled–it kills my mood when I’m ready to go but I have to wait for the update. The food tracker is meh until more food options are built in. I wish I could remove the period tracker bc I had a hysterectomy and the TDEE option never gets updated. It doesn’t register my Samsung watch data to seamlessly integrate despite data sharing being allowed. This app has some serious growing to do. Until then, have fun with the community part.
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LOVEE THIS APP
The programs are so easy to follow but also on demand workouts if you want to focus on something different. I love that you can substitute a work out for something else. There’s home workouts and gym programs and built in rest timers. I’m half way through the shred program and already seeing results. I plan to continue the other programs and it has been exactly what I needed for my fitness journey. Shoutout to Heidi and the Grounds team, I’ve been a member since 2024 and they continue to make the app better.
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Period Tracker
One of the main reasons for getting this was the “all in one” ease. After the last major app update the cycle tracking is completely useless and doesn’t work correctly 99% of the time. Truly makes me regret paying for the full year. I no longer recommend the app and suggest that if cycle tracking is important to you, you should definitely find another app.
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Beginner Friendly
This app helped me get back into a workout routine! I like that it shows your past workouts, tracks the weight you’ve used on each exercise, and the video demos are clear and at a good pace. Now that I’ve gotten into the routine of using the app to guide my workouts, I wish that I could build my own circuits on here. You can search for individual exercises or make substitutions to an existing plan, but I want to save a custom workout plan that I make based on my favorite exercises and with the number of reps I want.
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Meh
I wanted to love this app because it has a lot of features but it’s lacking. First I wish it had healthy recipes like some other apps I use. The home workouts are very limited. The cycle tracker is confusing and not super user friendly. Had to mess with it for a while to figure it out. Overall just wish it had more home options. Apparently we used to be able to add what equipment we had available and it would give more tailored workouts but they removed that option. I have some equipment but not all so I don’t know how to utilize all of the equipment I have available.
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Cancellation
I had canceled my subscription many months before the renewal date only to find out that I was getting charged again! I called my bank to stop the payment and dispute the charges. My phone even confirmed that I had canceled, so I don’t why I was getting charged. Poor business model. I would prefer zero stars
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Lacking one thing
I love this app! It is convenient and has a large variety of workout options. The only thing that is lacking is the option to select alternative workouts. For example, choosing a workout challenge, if I don’t have long bands, being able to select alternative workouts different option is pretty critical. If a certain workout hurts your knees, back, etc. there is no option to do something else. For me, this is the only component that is preventing this from being the perfect workout app
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Needs more advanced training
This is great if you’re brand new to the gym like it’s your first day but for someone that’s more advanced this is a little boring and truthfully I’ve been on here for two years and how many times can you run the same program for two years I feel like the trainers should have more than two programs on here
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Good idea
I have been using this app for a year and I think that the concept of it is wonderful but I feel like it feeds off beginners because they wouldn’t really be able to spot what’s wrong. I really look up to the creator so please don’t take my honest review as the wrong way and I hope it fixes some things. The workouts seem thrown together and I am sometimes appalled at some of the sets that are listed when coming from a certified trainer. For example “Glute pushdowns” or “cable pull throughs” aren’t very effective and feel silly especially for a beginner in the gym who may be discouraged already. Why can’t the workouts just be strait forward? The supersets aren’t really practical as you will need to jump to different parts of the gym and when choosing to change the workout it doesn’t really have alternatives that fit that exact specific muscle.
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This app is AMAZING!!!
Jackie Morera approved! Lol it has everything you could want or need! Starting with workouts, meal tracking, water tracking, steps, period, and the list goes on!!! I am still learning more about it, but I am so excited to continue my fitness journey with Grounds! Thank you Heidi for this app! 🩷
Might wanna find something else for tracking progress
Having to update this app every other week just for it to not fix the one thing I’d like it to. You used to be able to track multiple workouts a day, now it only saves one per day. Ex - Pilates for 50 min, and later in the day I could track a hike. Now I have to track it on different days which consequently messes up my tracking progress and data, which is exactly what it’s not designed to be doing in the first place?
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App is not working
My app has been on the fritz for o bout a week now. I can’t access any part of the app. Support has not been able to help either.
Better than the rest
I’ve tried a lot of fitness apps and this one is by far my favorite. I love having meal tracking, workouts and cycle all in one place. Variety of workouts is great.
Only complaint is the far too frequent updates. It’s really annoying to open it to start a workout but be unable to because I have to wait for an update - especially when it’s insignificant enough I notice no changes.
Only complaint is the far too frequent updates. It’s really annoying to open it to start a workout but be unable to because I have to wait for an update - especially when it’s insignificant enough I notice no changes.
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Great app!
This app is excellent! However I wish there were more affordable payment options, such as 3 months or 6 months at a time instead of just yearly or monthly.
