Motra AI Workout Fitness Coach

Aside from the fitness app built into the Apple Watch, this is my 3rd workout app. I initially got it because I used Apple health as my tracking hub and I felt like this app had better work out tracking than the others. After experiencing the auto exercise/rep recognition feature, I was really hooked. The app tracks muscle group recovery and the AI will create a routine for your workout that day based on what has recovered. Save that workout as a template, sync it to your Apple Watch and you can leave your phone at home! You can easily tweak the routine and adjust reps/weight after each set which was a big deal for me because I often rep to failure and want this tracked. Until recently, it lacked satisfactory cardio tracking, but as of the last update, it will import your cardio from Apple Health. Apple’s fitness app has great cardio functionality and tracking so now, so does TrainFitness. This new feature has worked great for me so far. Its exercise recognition is not always correct, but you can confirm exercise/reps/weight after each set and easily correct anything erroneous.

The app was amazing, however the new update is terrible. Very glad I only use the free version because the changes make the app almost unusable. It no longer records your sets in groups based on exercise, it makes an individual block which makes it exceedingly more difficult to tell how many sets you’ve done if you are in the zone and focusing on the workout alone. It no longer recognizes supersets and struggles to differentiate exercises so it’s very likely you will get a new set of the same exercise you just did if doing supersets, and when you adjust it it changes both sets instead of the one. And there is an added voice to alert you at 1 minute 30 second rest which is meant to be helpful but it’s more annoying than anything. Especially since you will spend more time editing the workout trying to make it accurate than you should and will have you being told to workout in the middle of the edit, let alone spending enough time to take you out of the zone entirely. It gets a 2 star due to it still being free, however it is such a nuisance now I may quit using it entirely. A note to everyone developing apps if it isn’t broke, don’t “fix it” cause you may end up in a situation like this.

I almost never write reviews and if I ever do, they never get 5 stars. This app is extremely convenient and best of all, it’s free to use. You can upgrade to a premium service that will recommend workouts. However, since I have a background in weight lifting, I write my own workout programs. My Apple Watch automatically tracks each set, it’s not 100% accurate but I wouldn’t expect it to be. The workouts are easy to edit on the watch or in the app. I downloaded maybe half a dozen workout apps before this one. Each time they either needed a paid subscription or were inconvenient. If you are still reading this, stop, download this app, start your first workout. The rest is on you, commit to a schedule that works and share your results with others. PS- Proper exercise is only half the battle. Whatever goal you set for yourself is impossible if you don’t have the right diet or state of mind. (Something this app can’t provide)