You should look into the FitBod app. You tell the app what equipment you have and it does the programming for you, with short videos and text descriptions for form.
I also recommend Fitbod. Excellent tracking and use of watch and workout plans generated for you but plenty of options to customize to get rid of exercises you can’t do it want to avoid. I love that it generates the workout for you and then forces you to max out on a few exercises to calculate your max strength which can be used for suggested weights in further exercises. Can have multiple gym setups with excluded exercises (in case you have a regular gym but also use something much more limited like home.)
As mentioned the videos are great and explanations clear.
I'll second that, FitBod was the single best investment I made during the pandemic. Partially because I didn't invest in AMD, Netflix, Zoom, Gamestop, AMC, Bitcoin or Doge; but also because it taught me how to work out!
Fitbod is great, but no significant updates in a year. No additional exercises in the database from when I started, can’t log over 29 reps of a weighted exercise, lots of other niggles. Has this been your experience?
This has been my experience. Fitbod is a good example of solid product-market fit (for me at least) without followup execution.
After the first use I was sold and paid for the annual subscription. But it's so buggy (especially when paired with an Apple Watch) that I've nearly stopped using it.
When I first started, I used the app DESPITE the bugs. Eventually the bugs got too painful to deal with. Now I do What Feels Right when I work out. Probably a worse strategy, but I prefer it over fighting through the bugs. (I keep the subscription in hopes that they will improve their app.)
How I love Apple's new 'App privacy' cards. The app you recommended seems to have pretty decent privacy practices, there doesn't seem to be tracking outside of the app, nor tracking for advertising. This is rare in fitness apps, some of which use health data for advertising, which I find appalling.
Vaslo|4 years ago
As mentioned the videos are great and explanations clear.
notjustanymike|4 years ago
iab|4 years ago
dkokelley|4 years ago
After the first use I was sold and paid for the annual subscription. But it's so buggy (especially when paired with an Apple Watch) that I've nearly stopped using it.
When I first started, I used the app DESPITE the bugs. Eventually the bugs got too painful to deal with. Now I do What Feels Right when I work out. Probably a worse strategy, but I prefer it over fighting through the bugs. (I keep the subscription in hopes that they will improve their app.)
donkeyd|4 years ago
So thanks for the tip!