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Apple keeps deleting my review. Makes you wonder how much this developer is paying them to keep their rating artificially inflated. I’ll save all the problems with the Apple Watch and focus on the meat of the issue - these workouts are randomly generated. No accredited trainer would ever put these together or have their client do them. Exercises that are dangerous are being performed at high reps. Same body parts are being worked out 2-3 straight workouts with no rest. The majority of exercises do not have substitutes available. If they do, it’s usually not an acceptable substitute (for instance, subbing DB Squat Jumps offer only bodyweight squat jumps. The DB is not the problem for most people looking to sub). They also will populate your workout with exercises unrelated to the body part/group that you think you are working out. For instance, I did a bicep workout today. It was full of lunges, mountain climbers, and burpees. Do not give this company money to lazily randomly select exercises for you. You could spend 10 minutes putting them into a spreadsheet and getting a random output from that.

What I like about the app is that you can customize the settings to where it can fit your preferences for your workouts. You can also tell it to skip a workout if your home/gym doesn’t have the proper equipment for that workout. Well.. for the most part. My first workout was for chest and triceps and every time it would go to a new section of the workout, it would give me the option to skip that section if you didn’t have the equipment or if someone was using it (you would just go back to that section later). But when it came to a section using a bar (for bench presses, squats, etc.) it didn’t give me the option. I guess it assumes that every gym has a bar, but I was working out at my neighborhood’s fitness center and it did NOT have a bar. Because it didn’t give me the option to skip, I had to just spam “complete, complete, complete,” essentially lying and saying I did the bar workout when I actually didn’t. Sure, I could use dumbbells instead, but I had JUST finished an entire dumbbell section of the workout prior to this problem. In the end, this isn’t a huge deal, except it can give inaccurate workout information to the one that logs that info for personal use. Overall, it’s a great app, and it helped me get an awesome workout, it’s just this one detail that made me give four stars.

I had been using the free version for almost a year and was getting some really good results. The video of each exercise is extremely helpful. Fast forward to COVID and the gyms closing, I decided to splurge on the premium version ($99/year) since I needed some new body weight routines. The routines, the pace and just generally everything fit perfectly together. Routine s were split so that I never overwhelmed a particular muscle group. I saw some of my biggest strength gains using body weight, a kettle bell, and the routines Shred provides. I would really give 4.5 stars if I could. The only thing keeping me from giving it a full 5 would be the camera angles. Video or pictures of the grip used and the attachments for cable exercise would be helpful. I’m glad the gyms are finally open because now I’ve been able to access the rest of the workouts which has really opened up my routines.