Simple Android App for Making Your Own Routines

Mark Hamill

I've been running into difficulties looking for a simple app to create and record my own exercise routines and am hoping for suggestions here.

I want to be able to add an exercise, with my own preset time or rep limit, then add the rest period and then another exercise and so on until I have a full routine that you can start with the press of a button and will run through itself (beeping notifications at you for stop, start and rest).

Any apps I have checked either require too much upkeep to set times/record reps etc for each exercise as you do them or only have their own pre-set routines which work how I want but can't be edited.

I want an app that when I start it just says "10 Pullups" (or whatever exercise I have preset), I press it when I'm done and it automatically counts down 30s (or whatever time I've set) and then the next exercise starts and so on.
I want one that when I start it it says "Pullups for 30s" and then automatically counts down 30s for pullups and then automatically counts 30s for my rest and then continues.

I don't care about graphs or tables, I don't really care if I can't add the reps I did on a timed exercise or the time it took me to a specific set of reps, I just want to start my routines and run through them without having to fiddle with the phone every time, before and during them.

Blacktie.

Sound like progression is exactly what you're looking for. I've been using it for years and after trying a bunch of other apps this is by far the best I've used.

Mark Hamill

This one? Thanks for the suggestion, I'll give it a go .

Blacktie.

Yep that's the one.

Mark Hamill

Blacktie. wrote: »

Sound like progression is exactly what you're looking for. I've been using it for years and after trying a bunch of other apps this is by far the best I've used.

I've played around with it for a day and it does seem the closest to what I want. It still has some annoying quirks though:

- It wants to setup routines over time and tries to incorporate itself into the calender. I just want to do my routines when I can, I don't want it to remind me.

- You can't add the same exercise twice in a routine (when I try to add an exercise again, it is already ticked). This means that while you can add one exercise with several continuous sets and rests e.g. pullup-rest-pullup-rest, you cant alternate the sets of different exercises in the one routine e.g. pullup-rest-chunup-rest-pullup-rest. (I know I could just make a new exercise e.g. pullups2, and add that, or just have routines of one set of each exercise and repeat the routine, but that all adds fiddly-ness that I was trying to avoid)

- Also, it took me a minute to realise the icon for the app was not someone dabbing :pac:


Still, nothing has come close to it for what I want, so I'll keep using it, thanks for the suggestion.

Blacktie.

Mark Hamill wrote:

- It wants to setup routines over time and tries to incorporate itself into the calender. I just want to do my routines when I can, I don't want it to remind me.

Hmm I've never had this issue... How does it incorporate into the calendar? I mean I have mine setup as day 1, 2, 3 and 4 and just do them when I need to. There's no incorporation into a calendar. And if you need to skip and day you just click the day and select exercise now.

On the point about doing an exercise twice I assume you're talking about supersetting? There is a function for that in there.

Mark Hamill

Blacktie. wrote: »

Hmm I've never had this issue... How does it incorporate into the calendar? I mean I have mine setup as day 1, 2, 3 and 4 and just do them when I need to. There's no incorporation into a calendar. And if you need to skip and day you just click the day and select exercise now.

Actually, using it some more and you are right. It does have an option to integrate with your calender and new routines are added on "days", but you can just ignore that and do whatever routines you like.

Blacktie. wrote: »

On the point about doing an exercise twice I assume you're talking about supersetting? There is a function for that in there.

I can't find that function. Is it only in the paid version? I can just repeat the routine, so it's not a big issue for me.

Blacktie.

Mark Hamill wrote:

I can't find that function. Is it only in the paid version? I can just repeat the routine, so it's not a big issue for me.

Not too sure. It did take me a few days to figure out but for me when you're making the routine on each exercise there's a part called add to group just below the rest timer. And you can drag as many as you want into each group to creat super sets and circuits.

Mark Hamill

Blacktie. wrote: »

Not too sure. It did take me a few days to figure out but for me when you're making the routine on each exercise there's a part called add to group just below the rest timer. And you can drag as many as you want into each group to creat super sets and circuits.

That's in the free version, I'll play around with it.
Thanks again, looks like this is pretty much perfect for my needs

ThunbergsAreGo

Strong is pretty good as well