Madbarz: Bodyweight Workouts

This app has some ok workouts, but there’s no real gradient from beginner to advanced. The beginner level will have you doing 4 squats and six pushups, and then intermediate expects you to be able to do 1000 pistol squats and 700 pull ups. Additionally, the app is buggy. It can’t measure time correctly, it frequently crashes, you’ll be half a hour into a workout and find the app has closed and erased the record of what you were doing. And even when it does, it keeps telling me my most recent workout was 27 days ago (it was 5 minutes ago) and reminds me to work out. I tried reinstalling the app only to find that my account “didn’t exist,” despite the fact I was paying for a subscription, and they tried to bilk more cash out of me by getting me to subscribe again. Dishonest company with a bad app. Typical eurotrash. Would not recommend.

I’m a paid subscriber and have been for almost a year and a half. This app is worth every penny. The plans feature is my favorite. It’s nice to get workout plans that continually challenge me and I don’t have to think about progressive overload or which body part to focus on. The app keeps upping the ante and rotating its focus on each body part. The plans I do also mix up the style of exercises right on time. Right when I’m tired doing muscle building exercises, it switches me over to a cardio focus. Then for whatever reason I feel energized and confident that I can do it since it’s different. The app is basically a personal trainer for the price of a gym membership. Keep up the great work! One critique: I’m up to the advanced exercises now so now many of the plans ask me to workout 5 days a week. 4 is my limit though. I don’t have time for 5 each week, so it would be nice if I could manually control how many days you work out regardless of your difficulty level. I’m assuming that you can’t though because the plans are pre-created by the Madbarz team which means they are the same for everyone. I would find even more value if it generated plans specifically from my history using the app and allowed control over how many times per week.

Madbarz has great workouts and a great community. The developer reaches out to the user base every so often to ask for feed back and they listen. They have a huge list of free workouts they still let you keep track of your progress and you still part of the community that encourages you to work out more. I upgraded to the membership version. They have a good menu to suggest what to eat and training plans and schedules with reminders to workout with option like slim down or build muscle. I love the app yes it might have a bug or 2 but they fix them quick and the app is great free or paid.