FitMe - Lazy Workout at Home

This was almost a 5 star app. I had been using it for 53 days and was seeing excellent results. My only complaint was that the AI instruction was sometimes incoherent, and the video choppy. The music also drowns out the instructions. Not a real big deal, it can be turned off. HOWEVER, today I got a new iPad. I used the transfer feature, which worked for almost all my other apps, EXCEPT FitMe. When I opened the app, I could see my progress, but when I clicked to start the workout, I was prompted to buy a subscription, which I already had. There was a restore purchase option, which didn’t work. When I set up the FitMe account, using my Apple account wasn’t an option, it was created with my email address. The only way to log in was to delete the app. When it was reinstalled, I could log in, but ALL MY PROGRESS WAS GONE!!! I contacted support and was told there is no way to restore it. Even worse, I can’t jump into the day 53 workout. I have to start over. The first month of workouts are half as strenuous, so at this point, it’s worthless! There are plenty of competing apps out there, do yourself a favor and try them. I’ll be canceling my subscription.

I’m a 57 y/o male who is overweight due to mobility issues and multiple surgeries to repair what’s been broken. I still struggle with a back injury that makes some days unbearable. I just completed Day 3’s workout and to be honest I didn’t think I was going to do it. After Day 2’s workout, my left shoulder and upper arm were hurting. But, I promised myself and my family that if I got this program, I would stick with it. This was a birthday present for me. Some of the exercises in Day 3 seemed to be tailored to helping me work out the soreness and yes, my shoulder does not hurt even a tenth of what it did before starting Day 3. Fingers crossed that I keep going and this program helps with my back injury. If I can get to the point of being able to walk without pain and can incorporate walking a few miles in to my weekly routine, then maybe I can start shedding some weight.

In watching the AI person demonstrate the exercise, I notice that the rhythm of the exercises changes on many of the exercises when the view changes. Also, one of the exercises appeared different from the front view to the side view on one I did today (#33). I was halfway through, the view changed, and my arms were doing what I saw in the first view when the second view was quite different. I have been subscribing to another senior fitness program for over two years that uses a real person with warmups and cool downs that is excellent. The exercises in this program aren’t enough to do much in terms of burning calories. A small handful require contortions not easily done by a 76 year old person. I am one month into a three month subscription and have not seen much that I am impressed with. When to inhale and exhale are explained on some but not on others. I had to turn the music off in order to hear the directions. This looks like a rapidly put together AI program that wasn’t checked for its many inconsistencies but was rushed out to make some quick cash because the market competition for elderly exercise programs is pretty fierce. I probably will not renew my subscription.