TrainHeroic: Strength Training

I love that this app asks you to rate how you’re feeling before every workout because I can see my ebbs and flows during my cycles. It has a huge data base of exercises and it’s easy to communicate with my coach through the app as well. However, the reason I’m giving it 4⭐️ is because it constantly has issues with publishing. My coach will publish workouts and they sometimes show up and sometimes don’t show up. I’ll receive a notification that my workouts were published but they won’t appear and my coach will have to go back and republish everything. It’s annoying for me as a client and I’m sure annoying for my coach who has several clients. Overall it’s a great app because it also gives you year end reviews and tells you how much you lifted during each workout.

I recently completed the Do Fitness Postpartum Program. It was great! Dana demonstrates the movements in each video and educates you on how to breath through the exercise, which is very helpful! The app allows you keep track of your sets and allows you to add reps or weights to your exercise. You have the freedom to move an exercise to a particular day if you’re wanting to target upper body vs lower body that day. Some exercises seem like they would be easier to do in a gym setting, but you can easily figure out ways to do it at home. I do wish the postpartum program was a little more core focused, as that was my targeted area to improve on, but in reality I really did need to work on regaining strength throughout my whole body and this program did just that. It felt so good to move my body again after my pregnancy and prolonged recovery. I love the feeling of achy muscles, knowing you are strengthening yourself again, and also getting an increased energy level from exercising is so critical for your mental health! The exercises take less than 30 minutes to complete, so its easy to find time in your day to get it done, even with a needy newborn nearby. Worth noting - this app is designed for phone use, I had downloaded it on my iPad, and the format was off, I’d suggest using it on a phone.

This app is almost perfect. But what’s killing me is that the app forces to auto populate to todays date. If I’m working a day behind, the app will push me to today. I don’t want to move yesterdays workout to today because things will get too jumbeled. I already have two RXs for the day and adding a third is too much to scroll through. When I’m resting I’m usually surfing the web. Then I’ll come back and the app will push me to todays workout. Even if I’m not doing it. I’d love to turn off the auto push feature. Maybe to “last workout”. But I just did todays workout, when I told it I didn’t want to move it, and I needed to work yesterday workout😡 didn’t realize this until it pushed me out after surfing the web during my rest period and I came back and saw it was pushing me to todays date. Ughhh