Takes the Guesswork Out of Strength Training
I’m really impressed with MacroFactor Workouts so far! I love that it takes the guesswork out of my strength training by giving me a structured program with specific sets, rep ranges, RIR targets, progression, recovery days, and even planned deloads. I completed my first workout today and loved being able to track everything as I went. The app is easy to follow at the gym and shows exactly which muscles I’m training. I already use MacroFactor for nutrition, so having my nutrition and strength training organized this well feels like the perfect combination for my fitness goals. Excited to see my progress over the next several weeks! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Great app - bad service
I loved the app and had the free version that came for members of MacroFactor. When they discontinued the free trial I couldn’t even log in anymore without paying. All I wanted was to download the workout data or even just see it to keep track of what I’d done but they locked it behind a paywall. I get not letting me use the app for workouts but taking your data from you and then holding it hostage unless you pay for it is a greedy bs move and makes me lose respect for Jeff for doing it.
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Didn’t know you played like that Jeffrey
Absolutely smashed me to bits. Bent me right over and progressively overloaded me
Great for beginners
Intuitive and easy to understand
Great App….Needs Watch App!
Fantastic and intuitive, i have Strong and Bevel. I love MF WO, but I won’t migrate until they finally release a watch app.
Algorithm seems off
I like a lot of things about this app. But the algorithm needs work. It either makes huge jumps in reps (eg previous week did 100lbs for 6 reps, 0 RIR), next week it increases the weight to 105. It expects me to get 12 reps with 2 left in the tank. Just doesn’t make sense. Then on my last week in a cycle previous week I get to 10 reps with 2 RIR, following week same weight but suddenly it thinks I can only get to 5 reps with same 2 RIR. I don’t want to have to do the thinking and adjust everything, that’s what the algorithm is for but it needs work
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I love Jeff
Genuinely such a good app. Simple and easy to navigate UI, great workout recommendations, and best of all easy workout swaps for when a machine is taken. Easy 10/10
They could make this better if they wanted
This app is tremendously frustrating to use and to review. While it has a vast set of capabilities that would place it firmly at the top of anyone’ top list of workout planners and loggers but with almost every key feature comes a MASSIVE what were/are they thinking? From offering flexibility to import custom programs and adding custom exercises to progressive smart analysis, the app could be great. They then take each of these and make them frustratingly useless by either creating absurd guardrails to program import formats, making on-the-fly exercise additions something that takes longer than an entire workout to set up! If they wanted to make their app 1000x more friendly overnight they would give users a CSV template for program building and a live list of every current exercise available in the app. A junior coder could implement this feature in 10 minutes giving users so much more control over the app, but it appears MacroFactor is more interested in creating obstacles at every turn, limiting seamless program uploads to partner public figures who sell their programs for $40+. That brings me to the built-in programs that are not third-party or uploaded from a purchased source. Frankly, they are all pretty lousy and lack the detailed specificity cycle training associated with more sophisticated Trainer programs. Focus settings are nice but completely ambiguous on implementation and arbitrarily capped at various levels depending on muscle type. Creating new exercises is like solving a cypher with the number of questions to set up the exercise with non-intuitive labels and no “helper” buttons to provide a simple explanation for what the various criteria even mean. I shouldn’t have to exist the interface and have ChatGPT explain to me how MFWO classifies the “stability” of an exercise.
Apple Health integration is another horribly executed and inconsistent feature. The app will run a custom workout simultaneously on the phone and Apple Watch but at workout conclusion it may or may not log the exercise calories in Active Calories, even when given full write privileges in Apple Health. It might just show up in Workouts. You just don’t know!
So, on potential and interface the app would score a 4.5 and on an implementation/execution perspective it deserves 0.5-1.0, but the real problem is I truly believe they have the ability to make a more capable and usable product that JUST WORKS but have chosen not to invest the time or resources into doing so.
This is a fragmented app space and no one does it great all-around, but this app’s high ratings are truly puzzling to me! Sorry!
Apple Health integration is another horribly executed and inconsistent feature. The app will run a custom workout simultaneously on the phone and Apple Watch but at workout conclusion it may or may not log the exercise calories in Active Calories, even when given full write privileges in Apple Health. It might just show up in Workouts. You just don’t know!
So, on potential and interface the app would score a 4.5 and on an implementation/execution perspective it deserves 0.5-1.0, but the real problem is I truly believe they have the ability to make a more capable and usable product that JUST WORKS but have chosen not to invest the time or resources into doing so.
This is a fragmented app space and no one does it great all-around, but this app’s high ratings are truly puzzling to me! Sorry!
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It’s not even close
This is the most thoughtful workout app I have ever used. Better than trying to use AI to make my own workout plan.
Good for brand new beginners - not much else
MacroFactor is the best nutrition tracking app I’ve used, and I’ve tried most of them. The workout programming feature, however, feels like a separate product built for a different user. The exercise recommendations seem to be generated for a general population with no training history or specific goals, and if you’re an intermediate lifter with a structured program already, the sessions will feel generic and somewhat random in their emphasis. For example lateral raises appeared in nearly every session of my generated split (and I did request an emphasis on those muscles) while movements more relevant to my goals were underrepresented. The app recommends a full body program which goes against most of the science backed research today. If you have a workout already building that as a custom program is incredibly time consuming and if you’re looking to migrate from spreadsheets it’s not worth it. My recommendation is use MacroFactor exclusively for nutrition tracking and run your own programming independently.
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5 stars
Very intuitive app!
Apple Watch対応希望
とてもお世話になっているアプリ。マクロファクターとの併用でしっかり結果が身体に現れている。ワークアウトの方も早急にApple Watchに対応してほしい。
Disappointing over the long run
Huge fan of MacroFactor but after 6 months I’m moving back to Hevy and will use their API for customization.
Why?
1. UX is poor and ultimately too much and too confusing
2. Sets don’t update, recommendations are all over the place
3. No Apple watch app
I spend more time using the app than focusing on my workouts.
Why?
1. UX is poor and ultimately too much and too confusing
2. Sets don’t update, recommendations are all over the place
3. No Apple watch app
I spend more time using the app than focusing on my workouts.
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Love this - it’s sophisticated but easy to use
This lives up to the normal MacroFactor app. Super useful thanks
Perfect except one thing
Would be perfect if it let you change what day of the week the app starts on. I wish I could change it to Sunday rather than the default Monday. Seems like it would be a simple thing to add
Useful for many but not for me
So I think the main thing holding the app back is that there's almost too much fidelity in its features and exercises. It’s really nice to specify the range of motion and all the different muscle groups involved, even down to the movement plane. However, the exercise library, while fully stocked, feels overwhelming due to the sheer number of variations.
For example, it's not just a row; it’s a chest-supported pronated grip row or a chest-supported neutral grip row. These are simple examples, but there are many more tiny nuances between exercises. Nine times out of ten, when I'm putting together a program, I just want to know where the flat bench press is, not the dozens of other variations.
The gym profiles idea seems neat at first, but it ultimately complicates things because there are so many choices of equipment, and none of them perfectly match the exercises you may have planned. If you’re in a home gym with limited equipment, you might find that the exercise you’re searching for doesn’t appear because of a small hiccup, like typing "plate loaded pull down" when the exercise is actually a "pen loaded plate down." It’s unclear why these details are so significant. The gym profiles feature becomes a hindrance with far too many exercises to choose from, creating noise when trying to assemble a program.
Once you have a program together and you’re doing the exercises, it feels pretty good at that point, but I do think the app is showing its age. Flutter, the framework it’s built on, allows for cross-platform development, which is why it looks like an Android app rather than an iOS app. This can be irritating, especially when there are free or native apps that offer similar functionality with live activities.
Another issue is that while they have access to so much data and nuance in exercises, not all of that gets exposed through the export function. When you export your data, you receive a limited set of information. While the export does contain some valuable data, it could be much more extensive for those looking to perform their own data analysis.
In summary, I think Macrofactor's workouts app is good, and I’ve used it for a long time, but it has become incredibly fussy to navigate. I wish they would adopt the same perspective they did with Macrofactor, which focuses on quick food entry. The workouts app, particularly in terms of program creation, doesn’t feel quick or efficient; it feels error-prone.
For example, it's not just a row; it’s a chest-supported pronated grip row or a chest-supported neutral grip row. These are simple examples, but there are many more tiny nuances between exercises. Nine times out of ten, when I'm putting together a program, I just want to know where the flat bench press is, not the dozens of other variations.
The gym profiles idea seems neat at first, but it ultimately complicates things because there are so many choices of equipment, and none of them perfectly match the exercises you may have planned. If you’re in a home gym with limited equipment, you might find that the exercise you’re searching for doesn’t appear because of a small hiccup, like typing "plate loaded pull down" when the exercise is actually a "pen loaded plate down." It’s unclear why these details are so significant. The gym profiles feature becomes a hindrance with far too many exercises to choose from, creating noise when trying to assemble a program.
Once you have a program together and you’re doing the exercises, it feels pretty good at that point, but I do think the app is showing its age. Flutter, the framework it’s built on, allows for cross-platform development, which is why it looks like an Android app rather than an iOS app. This can be irritating, especially when there are free or native apps that offer similar functionality with live activities.
Another issue is that while they have access to so much data and nuance in exercises, not all of that gets exposed through the export function. When you export your data, you receive a limited set of information. While the export does contain some valuable data, it could be much more extensive for those looking to perform their own data analysis.
In summary, I think Macrofactor's workouts app is good, and I’ve used it for a long time, but it has become incredibly fussy to navigate. I wish they would adopt the same perspective they did with Macrofactor, which focuses on quick food entry. The workouts app, particularly in terms of program creation, doesn’t feel quick or efficient; it feels error-prone.
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Great App
I just got into lifting and this helps me a lot during my workouts. Wish more people used this app!
Cardio
App seems good but there’s no option to focus on and prioritize cardio
Impressive
Easy to use