BodBot AI Workout Planner

I’ve been using this app since at least 2013. I love that it’s always remained consistent with the basics- easy to follow workout routines, TAILORED workouts, adaptation during workouts and video/written description! Of course, over time it’s changed for the better (new workouts, improved videos, etc.) but overall it’s still easy to use and extremely beginner friendly. I like that it connects with Apple Health, making it easy to integrate with other fitness/nutrition apps. I primarily use it for the fitness aspect but have dabbled with the nutrient part before. In early years, I found the nutrition aspect confusing/difficult (in-app) so I cannot speak on that part. But honestly the ease of having a personalized trainer in my pocket is worth the world to me.

I have been using this app for about two years now. I love it. Going into the gym and being able to just focus on my lifts and nothing else has improved my work outs and helped me reach new levels of fitness. I love that the app can track nutrition and allows you to adjust your workouts in many different ways (available equipment, fitness goals, supersets, circuits, etc). You can even add your own food into the nutrition section (I use Huel a lot, so I can just add in each flavor - YES) I even helped the developer trouble shoot when I used to have a Google Pixel a year or so ago. They were great to work with. The only reason why I can’t give it five stars is because the app/user experience is kind of clunky, and maybe somehow I’m just the bug finder, but I’m always running into bugs. If I switch between home and gym for my equipment selection, the app resets the fields. It’s taken me two days to get the app to remember that I have a hex bar available at my gym. As others have noted as well, it seems like it maybe over aggressively targets problem areas. My shoulders definitely aren’t great, and I like that the app focuses on them, but I also haven’t done a chest or tricep workout in months because the app only ever gives me core, some legs, shoulders, and a little bit of back exercises. Overall though I am super happy with the experience, hence the 4 stars. EDIT: I wanted to add - maybe it should more aggressively do the fitness tests? I’ve looked in that section of the app and I’ve done very few of them, but it often has me repeat the same tests over and over. So maybe it just hasn’t moved past the first stuff I did for it? Who knows Second edit: I went through the app and purposefully did all the fitness tests it wasn’t giving me and now my workouts are as varied as I would expect, changing to 5 stars

Edit: I really love this app. It keeps me pushing myself by adjusting my workouts based on how difficult sets were. I used to add a few pounds every couple weeks or so, and do the same routines. I was frustrated with my lack of strength improvement. But after using bodbot I saw how much I’d been previously underestimating myself. I feel much better and stronger. What’s more, the development team really cares about you. I got in contact with them when I was having issues and they emailed me back and forth, until I no longer had problems. Would highly recommend this app. Original Review: I would rate this 5 stars if it wasn’t for this one thing that keeps happening. I’ll be in the middle of a workout, and see that I have for example, planks, coming up soon. Then when my next exercise comes up, it’s no longer planks. I then check the rest of the workout to see that the ENTIRE routine has changed, often including duplicates of what exercise I had just finished. I love the dynamic changing of weights and reps based on what I need, but I don’t want my whole routine changed while I’m in the middle of it.