BetterMe: Health Coaching

I love the app, but it needs a few more features. I would love to have more choices when it comes to the exercises. They have to think about your physical health, age, and weight. Some exercises are just made for people who are fit, young or both. At the beginning the exercises are modified to a beginner, but then they get more challenging. The problem is that after months of exercising when you’re overweight and older, your knees start feeling the pain, so I do recommend they stay on a modified exercise when it comes to putting all the weight on your knees or giving you the option within the app. Also, it’s important to provide two feel good options because it helps you achieve that goal for that day, and also you have an option for those days when your life was crazy busy, active, and full of chaos. Lastly, I have had many problems of it crashing down in the middle of my workout many, many times! This also discourages all the effort we put into a healthier lifestyle. I have even tried it several times, but it constantly crashes down. Also, I can’t even delete and reinstall the app because it might delete all my data. No easy fix for this until now.

With gyms closed, I decided to look for alternate at home exercises. I am in my late 20s and looking to keep an active and healthy lifestyle. This app has great options. I subscribed and I really enjoy the daily 'do your exercises' that fit directly in what I am looking for. I also like the 'workouts' section if I am looking to work a little more on a specific muscle group. Yet, for me honestly I do feel that the food and dietary section is not useful to me. I am not looking for nutritional advice, im only looking for workout ideas so this to me is not useful. I would advice BetterMe to have a full seperate app just for nutrition and one just for workouts with the possibility of merging data from both apps together if the user wants to. Otherwise, a lot of the data on this is just not useful to some people. I do get the whole concept of being a full plan of food and exercise but thats my experience. Another think I want to point out is the 'do your workouts' section of the Plan page. Some days it recommends walking, other days it recommends a full 25 minute exercise routine -which is exactly what i love about this app and why I subscribed to it. Yet, skme days when i check the 'do your workout' section it says 'today walking' it doesn't make sense. I suggest modifying the Plan page to include under the 'do your workouts' section a 'walking' subsection and an 'exercises' subsection. That way you get to have both new options everyday.

My goal was to start a habit of working out. I have a sedentary lifestyle of desk work. This app got me to consistently work out 3-5 days a week, at first mostly because the beginning work outs are easy and short (11-15mins). I would feel sore the next day so that was good. AI instructor is a little strange but didn’t bother me. Music was annoying at first then I got used to it. I am cancelling after 2 months to try a different workout app. I might come back to this one- the trial and following discount month were worth it. I don’t like that you can’t skip a workout, you just have to get through the current one or it never advances you to the next one. Another thing I did not like is that some workouts 2 weeks in literally just have you repeat the same 2 moves the entire workout- like 100 squat walks for example or an ab workout would be just doing scissors for the whole 20 mins. At first I thought it was a glitch but then I noticed it kept doing it. It would be nice to switch up exercises for one muscle group instead of doing exact same move for 20 mins. That was boring and felt AI generated and not fun. Overall I do feel stronger and did build a habit of working out, if not every day than every other day (from zero). I am not athletic or into sports, but enjoy things like yoga. Dr said I needed to build muscle so that is what my workouts in the app were geared for and I appreciated the customization.