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Timestamps:
0:00 – Introduction: What we define good apps as
0:20 – Do Fitness apps work?
0:47 – My experience/review with fitness apps
2:37 – The Best Fitness Apps you can use
3:44 – My philosophy with training and fitness
4:10 – Getting back to being shredded
4:21 – Conclusion
Fitness apps have been around for a while now and they’ve been booming in popularity ever since. But alas, popularity is not a great determining factor of whether they’re effective or worth your time. Let’s talk about it.
Firstly, let’s define what would classify as an app that “works.” “An app that provides an adequate and continuous stimulus for muscle growth and strength development.” Or simply, an app that enables you to grow and progress as you use it to its full capacity and length.
By that definition, most of the apps that I’ve used and trialled have been very effective. Apps like Mad Bars, THNX, Thenics, etc. But there’s a catch…
These apps will provide that stimulus that you very much want, but only if you’re a complete beginner or novice to training. Advanced athletes on the other hand won’t benefit very much because the workouts are not difficult enough.
In my experience, the Mad Bars app was very good to me. Though it’s changed in user interface and ease of use among the years, I cherish the foundation it gave me to build upon. When I was using this app with my peers back in 2014, we saw significant muscle and strength development as long as we were consistent.
I never really did back training when I first started, so using Mad Bars projected my progress. The idea of logging into an app, picking the muscle group you want to train and having an AI cycle the workout was intuitive. These apps very much work, granted you are a beginner and/or detrained.
But there are ways these apps can be of use to athletes who are a bit more experienced. Like with any training regimen, there has to be progressive overload and an increase in intensity throughout the weeks. If you alter the exercises to harder ones, increase the reps or add external resistance, you may grow.
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My philosophy with training was always to make what was hard for me, easy. And then to make easy again, hard. If I struggled to do front levers or muscle-ups, I made it easy and then found ways to make it difficult again. For e,g changing the leverages, adding weight and changing variables like tempo to test me even more.
Again, the apps will work if you push yourself. My second training philosophy (lol) is that your workout is only as good as your effort. Granted your workout is optimised and works to help you progress, that stress factor is the main factor to skyrocketing your gains.
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