Morsia

This app has an amazing way of approaching exercises. My wife and I just started 4 weeks ago at a local gym. I was able to afford a trainer for her, but I needed something to help me as well. And after search a whole day Morsia was my pick. I have exercised since I was 14 and now in my 30s i understand why it’s so important for us to strength train. The app looked intimidating, but once I started watching the videos on the exercise I notice “this guy isn’t pushing weight, it’s just the bar”, so it showed to me that he isn’t doesn’t this for attention. Then I get into the informed videos and he encourages less weight and it hits me, he my personal trainer. I’m happy to of found this app. The exercise are simple to do with no experience. I don’t feel intimidated at the gym curling 12 lbs while the guy next to my hits 25 or 40. It’s got me out of my head and focused on me.

The exercising logging function has been adequate and I have no problems there for the most part. The nutrition part of the app however has been VERY glitchy and has made logging in my meals a very frustrating experience. FIRST gives you the “option” to add custom meals but limits you to adding one per day for unknown reasons (if you try to add another it will not count them accurately towards your daily totals) and sometimes is inaccurate in adding them in first place (ex you will select completed on the meal but daily macros are unchanged). SECOND the switch meal function for a different recipe/custom meal is completely broken and has not worked since I downloaded the app. THIRD there’s an “add a meal” button at the bottom of each day but instead of adding to the same day it adds to the next days meal plan instead (not intuitive at all) and sometimes doesn’t add it altogether. FOURTH there’s no way revise your daily totals if you log in an extra meal by accident. FIFTH the computer generated shopping list is completely useless in that it will be based on eating different recipes everyday which would be extraordinarily expensive for the average person (I would recommend they redevelop this concept to allow people to choose 3-4 recipes for the week, which is how most people shop/eat).

I wanted to wait about a month to get used to the app before I have a review. Overall it’s okay. It can be quite frustrating that when I enter a weight and a rep count for an exercise and the next time I go to enter the same weight and rep it totally resets! The app should be intuitive enough to understand that the next weight will be the same not more than 10 LBS LESS. I have also ran into the issue of when skipping a cool down that the app turns off my music which is also frustrating, there should be a feature that completely turns off cooldown off we choose. When selecting through workouts and meal plans, the app completely exits out and it’s a loop. All of these are bugs and can be fixed. The workouts are good though, I like that it gives me structure and variety. One thing I would like to see, is a feature where Matt gives a brief description of what form to look for with the instructional video. I know there is a page where he explains how to do exercises but for when someone is in between sets it can be a lot to scroll through that separate page to look for a specific exercise. There could also be a quick description under the video. I am NOT disappointed with the app though, I don’t regret my year subscription and I look forward to the updates !