THRST

I’ve really enjoyed using the THRST app over the past couple of years. The workouts themselves are simple, effective, and deliver great results. However, my main issue lies with the app’s functionality and performance. For months now, it’s been extremely buggy. Navigating within a workout (for example, trying to swap exercises) causes noticeable lag, and in many cases, the app completely crashes or resets. It’s a huge time-waster and often kills my momentum during training. It’s also frustrating that every time I open the app, I have to dismiss the same notification pop-up twice before I can start. There should be an option to decline notifications permanently instead of being prompted every session. Another major downside is that the app requires an internet connection to access workouts. When traveling or training in areas with poor reception, I can’t view my routines at all. Offline access would be a major improvement. Lastly, the overall design and user experience could use an update. The workouts are great, but the app itself feels dated and clunky with certain aspects/ notes and functionalities not being clear. In summary, THRST has excellent programming and real potential, but the app desperately needs technical and usability improvements. If these issues get resolved, I’ll happily update my rating, but for now, the inconveniences are too big to ignore.

I’ve only been using the Thirst app for a couple days. My main concern is customer support. The first problem I have was it was putting all my way it’s in kilograms not pounds even after I switched it to pounds, so that was very hard for me. Second is when I start a workout program let’s say I did chest and triceps yesterday and I started the app today and the first workout. It gives me a chest and triceps. There’s no way to quickly switch to something else like legs or back and buys or shoulders. other than that, I love the videos I love the training sessions. I love the teaching sessions.

I gave this app a try and found the different routines a great feature. I feel the variation between each focuses gave me a chance to explore new exercises. It’s also nice that I don’t have to manually put together a routine like on other apps. As for meal plans, not the most exciting, I tried a few but didn’t quite like it. So I don’t really use that feature. Here are some things that could be improve: 1. Since Mike specify tempo, I work out with a metronome playing in the background to keep pace, it would be nice to integrate this feature into the already existing running timer at the top of the workout screen, to play the tick sound counting the seconds. 2. A built-in rest timer would be nice. Again, another feature to keep the pace of the workout. 3. In weight tracking, the integer scroller does not support decimals when you workout in imperial units. Not a big deal, I just round down for conservatism, but would be nice for accuracy to support 0.5lb. increments. 4. Also using a scroller to select weight is kind of annoying especially when the weight is high. Maybe an input field to directly enter weight would be a better option. 5. Mike’s video content is full of great information. I’d like to be able to consume these at double speed, but there’s no option to speed up videos. He speaks nice and slow, but too slow for my liking.