SHRED: Gym & Home Workouts

It’s a really sweet app for working out and has the perfect set up, just need some tweaking. For example it asks in setting what equipment you have available to use and it saves your selections, but then when you use the guided workouts the workout isn’t tailored based on the equipment you select. So you end up using the alternatives which they nicely have as an option for every workout, but it would be super convenient if the workout program already was tailored to the settings. Also I wish there was a way to be able to use the app with no internet. At my gym it’s super crappy cell service and no Wi-Fi and so sometimes I can’t view the video instructions. Which leads to my other complaint- I wish they would have a stretching routine that wasn’t a class or video based program. I can’t use the videos at my gym and so if I want to do a suggested stretch I can’t since it’s only in video follow along format. If they had it set up to where it was like the workouts and it gave you video instructions on how to do the stretch and a timer for each one so I could use the feature without internet that’d be perfect. Another thing that would be awesome was that after a workout when it suggests a short 5 minute cardio or HIIT that it'd instead ask you how much time you wanted to spend on those extras. I love the option after a workout to do my cardio or HIIT but sometimes I have more time so if it’d let you select an amount vs the preset 5 min that’d be sweet.

I have used this app consistently for the past 15 months - shortly after COVID lockdowns began. I’ve noticed positive gains in muscle strength and faster times in my 5k runs. Even without doing any running, my occasional runs have been quicker from losing weight and gaining muscle. Having the option to choose from home or gym workouts is awesome too since a lot of gyms are open now. Now I definitely don’t have any excuses to miss a workout. I also like the variability in the workouts. I haven’t done the same workout back to back or one after the other. They are slightly different each time which is exactly what I was looking for in a workout app. I just start my workout on Shred and follow the workout plan for that day. I’ve always done just basic workouts that I would guess on. I would see some gains and weight loss, but I see results much quicker with the Shred app and it takes the guess-work out of a great workout. I had to take some time off from working out due to moving to a new city and a lower back injury. Im starting back up after taking about two months off and I’m really just sore from starting at a new gym. Time to get Shred! One thing I do request is if it were possible to choose or change your next exercise while the countdown for the rest period has begun. Currently, you have to wait until the countdown is over before you can see alternate exercises for the next exercise. It would be nice to already see what your options are and choose one before the timer ends so that you can jump right into the next exercise without wasting any time.

I’ve been telling myself for 10 years post college that I would finally commit to getting the body an athlete in the prime of his primordial existence should have. I wanted to be a warrior at the gym , I wanted to be a beast and do it alone. I never wanted a trainer, I never wanted the small talk, the feeling of being somebody’s pay check. Shred gave me the keys to the castle. I have workouts that not only are the best in the gym BUT workouts where at least a few people ask me where I got my workout every single time, including trainers. The workouts are dynamic, athletic and efficient no matter what style you use. I try to alternate between four different syles over the course of the year, LeanX and Crossshred when I’m in absolute beast mode and want to up my anaerobic and muscular conditioning . These styles have athletic work, and isolation work. I also do Bulk and Classic to focus more on iso and hypertrophy training for really working on muscle density. I also do my Shreds at the end of the workout to stay as chiseled as possible. Shred has allowed me to kill it with the ladies, finally! Like a serious change that I’ve never had. I’ve never been the guy with the abs, but I really am now. I’m not cocky now I’m just confident and I guess happy. My job is not that amazing in a lot of ways and so Shred is finally something to look forward to at the end of the day .