fitness apps pain points

“Are there any that allow you to mark exercises to always be kept out of the plan? ie I can’t do RDL or any DL due to a back injury and I am interested in one that would let me substitute the exercise I can’t do with an alternate exercise or let me plug in my injuries from the get go and it’ll adjust for me?”

“I don't know if that app features this but I'd like to see a feature where you can make workout A and workout B and have it alternate on its own throughout the week. Kind of how strong lifts does it in their app. Most I've seen let you make a weekly workout routine but many routines change each week like Strong Lifts, SS, GSLP and it's variants and so on.”

“I don't know if that app features this but I'd like to see a feature where you can make workout A and workout B and have it alternate on its own throughout the week. Kind of how strong lifts does it in their app. Most I've seen let you make a weekly workout routine but many routines change each week like Strong Lifts, SS, GSLP and it's variants and so on.”

“I'd enjoy new badges/awards, whether those are things like awards for more workouts (First Boxing Workout, First Badminton Workout, etc), more limited edition challenges, or others (such as first half marathon, first marathon, etc). Or things like 50th XXX (Run, Swim, etc) workout, 25 different workouts recorded, etc.”

“I’m looking for something to create a workout routine, also I very much made it clear in my post that I have no access to equipment, I’m a complete beginner, so i don’t know the first thing to creating a routine”

“I use Fitbod for tracking strength and peloton for everything else. I'd recommend Peloton's Strength+ if you have an iPhone so everything is tracked together (sadly I'm on Android)”

“I use Fitbod for weight training, but a year subscription nets out to $5 a month. It changes up your muscle groups depending on what you recently did, and you can set your equipment and workout time. I prefer to just put my head down and work when at the gym, and this is the perfect app for that.”

“But that always seems very obvious to me anyway when I look at the workouts flagged as “new” each Monday. I always like to do a Mindful Cooldown at the end of my strength and core workouts three times a week but can see they’re only adding one Mindful Cooldown workout a week now so I’m going to run out in the next 5-6 weeks (probably less as I can’t stand doing any workouts with Molly!)”

“Also, why is the 'library' at the bottom? Wouldn't I want classes I bookmarked toward the top? Not after every other little thing they want to suggest. The Library is almost useless anyway as there is no way to filter or sort it. Apple is usually so go at making things intuitive. I cannot understand why this was so badly set up.”

“I just want playlists/folders 😭”

“It’s just not intuitive. They need a better sort and filters function.”

“The Nike Training Club is so minimalist and easy to navigate. But I like the variety of AF+! apple needs to step up, oof.”

“Viewing workouts in the fitness app is poor and your only option to get anything meaningful is to use 3rd party apps.”

“It’s terrible. It is so cluttered and the filters are awful and why on earth is there no way to make customized playlists?”

“The challenges are lame at best. They used to be very hard to get some months. I think this was because they wanted to be more inclusive to non exercisers. Too bad they don’t have different tiers of challenges for people who want to really push themselves and separate from the pack.”

“I wish there were more special challenges/badges, and I wish it was more motivating for getting those. I was a Fitbit user before Apple Watch and loved all their random badges. You got just enough for it to be motivating but it wasn’t oversaturated”

“Fitness Motivation: This one was fitness specific. We failed early on to give people a reason "Why" for using our app. Particularly because motivating someone to exercise is a very difficult problem.”

“So I’ve used multiple workout apps and all were scams I don’t understand why they are the only way I’ll stay consistent but they are I have no equipment nor the money for it, I’m in school so my schedule is tight, and no matter how much I try to go to the gym I just can’t do anything because my mind is too focused on the people around me”

“I was getting so discouraged by the numbers on the scale bouncing around, and Happy Scale helps me visualize trends and not get bummed/demotivated when things don’t move the way I might like them to.”

“Fitness apps are a hard market to create staying power in my experience. What happens for me is that I will gain a lot of motivation and want to track this and that so I’ll download an app to help. Then I find my routine by using it and it’s going well - and I realize I no longer need the app, I’m comfortable just eyeballing what I’m doing, or at the most using a notebook to track my numbers to improve. The cycle continues like this or I never pick up an app again due to casually exercising.”

“Anyone else feel the fitness app has gotten stale? The goals, rings, awards, same thing for so many years. I know some people haven’t had the Apple Watch as long as others but for the people that have since day one do you find it’s time for some sort of refresh?”

“I like it as my accountability buddy but it has gotten repetitive”

“Not necessarily the app But I’m tired of the Fitness+ rowing workouts. Same room. Same people. For years. Mix it up a little - maybe get them outside in the water for a change”

“This. My challenges were repetitive and too easy.”

“Part of me thinks this is because if you've been a subscriber since the early days and you've done a lot of the workouts like I have, filtering would result in us seeing just how few new workouts there are.”

“Secondly, the apps syncing with the apple watch is kind of horrible. I completed a 26 minute workout, and it didn’t even save the data. Now I have to complete the same workout over again. Just so it will show up on my progress.”

“I'd say major refresh.. Tracking exercise has improved loads via apple watch, the watch fitness app has improved but the phone app is only marginally better. Viewing workouts in the fitness app is poor and your only option to get anything meaningful is to use 3rd party apps.”

“I tried apple fitness. Not a fan, especially since I couldn't stream on my TV.”

“I have no equipment nor the money for it, I’m in school so my schedule is tight, and no matter how much I try to go to the gym I just can’t do anything because my mind is too focused on the people around me Every workout video ever requires some sort of equipment that I can’t afford My best option is a workout app but they all seem to be scams”

“sadly, cant find a single think on boostcamp that doesn’t require equipment”

“I specifically don’t have access to equipment”

“Wait what? How is it only $12 for you? I think I’m paying $40/month 🧐”

“With so many fitness apps on the market, it's hard to really choose one and believe the reviews, and so on.”

“Then comes the fact that the second they add stuff like recovery… why would I pay a scammy $30 a month to whoop (no shade to whoop, but it’s unnecessarily expensive for what it is and realistically the worst value tracker imo)”

“Your app is facing the problem which every health app faces in its initial stages, what you have to do here is to get to know your customers very well and understand what their pain points are, you can refer the blog: http://www.sparkbehavior.com/2013/11/6-reasons-fitness-apps-fail/”

“Sorry to say but your app doesn't look visually appealing to me UI wise. Things like title being too long and getting clipped, black status bar on dark background, extremely thin fonts, square buttons instead of rounded corners, light colored text over white background etc. People need visual candy from software!”

“I'd just like them to add mountain biking as a workout option”