Soflete

I’ve made several reviews; all are similar, since some of the issues haven’t been resolved. For the most part, the training and nutritional programming is top notch as well as the customer service. The app has some kinks to work out. For almost two years, I’ve had constant issues with the app actually keeping a historical record of the weight I’ve moved by sets (the bar graph icon “exercise history” when one is mid session). There are occasionally differences in what the grocery function tells you to buy and what the actual cooking instructions will have you use. For example, the grocery function says buy 15 eggs for a course of five days, but once it’s time to prep that meal for five days, the instructions will say 18 eggs required.

I’ve been using SOFLETE for little over a year now and have seen the progression that the app has made. With the progress though there still seems to be minor things that I would expect the developers to fix. For example in the Bodybuilding team there is a workout that calls to do a inclined supinated grip dumbbell press, however in the example video it shows a guy doing a pronated grip. Another example is occasionally the workouts will call to do X amount sets/reps, but in the area you plug your weights in it will have Y amounts. One more example I just recently ran into was in the Mr. Squat bodybuilding workouts 1-2 and 1-3, the workouts where you’re finding out your 1 rep max has you plug the percentage in instead of the weight. This makes no sense due to you finding out your 1 rep max. This can be all mitigated if someone took the time to go through the entire workout team and make sure these problems were taken care, but to me as a consumer this tells me that someone is slacking or you’re fine with doing sub par work. Sorry for the lengthy review, but I believe this app truly does have great potential still, hence why I still use it. If SOFLETE needs someone to go through the workouts to find these discrepancies please let me know and we can work something out.

Soflete’s programming is great. This review is just for the app. I think the guys at Soflete forgot what it’s like to be deployed with slow WiFi. The amount of information that has to load for each section of a workout takes forever if you’re not in the comfort of your own home. I spend half my workouts waiting for content to load. Some of their newer programs do have overviews available, but it doesn’t seem like much effort went into them. One workout had a 2k row followed by another 2k row with a rest in the middle. In the overview the first 2k row was in the strength section of the workout, the second was in stamina. Nothing about the rest was mentioned, so I assumed it was a typo and only did one row. Not a huge deal, but there are a lot of little problems in the overviews like that. Many of them also don’t include the recovery/mobility at the end of the workouts. Having timers and videos and charts embedded for every exercise is great in theory, but does not work out well in reality, especially for their targeted customer who spends time down range with garbage internet. If the overviews were better written and available for every workout of every program, this would be a 5 star app.