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by Mark In Beacon

This app seems to be doing well ratings-wise so perhaps I am in the minority here. If you’re new to exercising at home and need guidance, this is not the app for you. There’s actually no coach (despite the claims) no guidance on form, or even how to do the exercises.

The actual workouts are random exercises giving you3 or 4 seconds between each one to get in the right position, assuming you even know what it entails. It can sometimes repeat the same exercise due to the random nature and there’s no consideration of what a ‘whole’ workout can be about, so varying the types or difficulty of the workouts.

The interface is neat, the calendar view is nice as is the ability to have multiple profiles for different family members, but this app won’t guide or help you with anything. It just blurts out what it wants you to do with no way to feedback, pause, repeat, slow down or even show you how to do what it’s asking.

by NessaTesla

I got Streaks Workout because I loved Streaks so much, but as soon as I find something better I’ll be moving on. My main problem with his app, as others have said, is that the random workouts often end up with me scrambling to get up, lay down, etc to get ready for the next exercise in time. I have increased the prep time between exercises but it still is a huge momentum breaker for me. To the developers, here is my recommendation: give each exercise an attribute of standing, sitting, kneeling, or laying. Then add a Natural Progression toggle in the settings. When on, it would prevent the app from sandwiching a laying exercise in between two standing exercises etc. standing exercises could only be paired with sitting, sitting could go back to standing or down to kneeling, kneeling back to sitting or down to laying, etc you get it.

Otherwise, 5 star app. Great aesthetic.

by Ashram12

I like this app because it has relatively “short” workouts and motivates you to do it everyday. Having said that, I have quite a few problems with the app. First up, it lists the different workouts by the length of the time it’ll take. It would be much better to list the workouts by the amount of exercises you’ll do. The first time I used this app, I thought I could sneak in a 12 minute workout before going to work, and quickly realized that I wasn’t going to actually complete the workout within these 12 minutes. The workout actually takes me between 15 to 18 minutes to complete. Secondly, the app randomizes the sequence of exercises which, in some cases, is not good. For instance, I can’t do a 20 second plank followed by a 25 second plank. I also don’t like having to do situps followed by squats followed by situps...all this getting up and laying back down is frustrating. Lastly, for the exercises like planks and wall-sits, the app gives you about 2 seconds to get in position before it starts the countdown, and that’s just not enough time especially if the precious exercise had me in a completely different position. So, while the app is helpful in getting me moving everyday, it also frustrates me quite often.