Nuke it and start over
I find the app to be completely useless. It doesn’t really tie in with anything useful either. The board rocks though, and I appreciate you guys for that!!
Videos don’t work
The app videos don’t work
Great Product, Horrendous App
I’ll mirror what other people have said - the app logs your workout time as the length of the tutorial video, despite telling you to do something that takes much longer. If it tells you to do three 20 second sets, but the tutorial video is thirty seconds long? It logs you as working out for thirty seconds.
As for the workouts themselves, you get a list of exercises to do and then a prompt to start the workout. But you never get those instructions again, just the above mentioned tutorial videos.
Come on guys, this is basic stuff. You should have product tested this, anyone would have called it out. The plank board itself is great and I’m loving using it. The app needs a LOT of work though.
As for the workouts themselves, you get a list of exercises to do and then a prompt to start the workout. But you never get those instructions again, just the above mentioned tutorial videos.
Come on guys, this is basic stuff. You should have product tested this, anyone would have called it out. The plank board itself is great and I’m loving using it. The app needs a LOT of work though.
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Identity Crisis
So Pure Plank app, do you want to be a fitness tracker? Or a tutorial library? As it stands, you can’t be both.
The app tracks the time you’re working out by the duration of the tutorial you watch, which is not accurate since the tutorials are under 40 seconds long. Meanwhile, the amount of time it takes you to do your sets/reps/rest could be as much as 90 seconds for the intermediate recommendation. So the app isn’t giving you the appropriate credit.
My current setup is using the provided timer and 2 devices - one for playing tutorials, the other displaying the recommended sets/reps/rest. Not ideal.
Quick solution: the tracker should keep the timer going even after the video is complete. Once the user completes their sets, they click a “workout complete” button and the timer stops and credits the user. Also, the recommended sets/reps/rest should always be visible during the tutorial and after the video ends, until the user clicks “next video.”
Wishlist solution: the user places their device at a distance and the app uses the front facing camera to display your posture superimposed with the tutorial, and the color changes (or audio signal for those that don’t want to watch the screen) based on the accuracy of your posture: Green for perfect posture, yellow for fair posture, red for poor posture. The app guides (and tracks) you through the recommended sets/reps/rest, tallying your total reps and your duration.
The Pure Plank board itself is great - sturdy, simple, easy to store, and doesn’t slide around. Hopefully the app becomes just as useful.
The app tracks the time you’re working out by the duration of the tutorial you watch, which is not accurate since the tutorials are under 40 seconds long. Meanwhile, the amount of time it takes you to do your sets/reps/rest could be as much as 90 seconds for the intermediate recommendation. So the app isn’t giving you the appropriate credit.
My current setup is using the provided timer and 2 devices - one for playing tutorials, the other displaying the recommended sets/reps/rest. Not ideal.
Quick solution: the tracker should keep the timer going even after the video is complete. Once the user completes their sets, they click a “workout complete” button and the timer stops and credits the user. Also, the recommended sets/reps/rest should always be visible during the tutorial and after the video ends, until the user clicks “next video.”
Wishlist solution: the user places their device at a distance and the app uses the front facing camera to display your posture superimposed with the tutorial, and the color changes (or audio signal for those that don’t want to watch the screen) based on the accuracy of your posture: Green for perfect posture, yellow for fair posture, red for poor posture. The app guides (and tracks) you through the recommended sets/reps/rest, tallying your total reps and your duration.
The Pure Plank board itself is great - sturdy, simple, easy to store, and doesn’t slide around. Hopefully the app becomes just as useful.
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I have an account, so I can’t register a new one with the same email, but the “Already have an account?” option is grayed out and inactive
