Fitbod: Gym & Fitness Planner

Absolutely love this app. It has helped me so much this past year. The auto generated workouts saved me time and helped me stick to a routine. Things I would love to see in the future: - a way to program in my own warmup and cool downs. For example, I start each workout with a one mile walk on the treadmill, and end my workouts with another walk. Right now I have to manually enter them everyday. - go heavier on the abs. 1 ab workout usually leaves me wanting more and adding additional exercises is kind of annoying.

I enjoy the app, though my main concern is the need for an internet connection to use it. More features should work on the device when offline. Please allow us to download assets. Some gyms I visit lack internet, and my cellular signal is weak, so I cannot view exercise videos, my history, or trends, or even create a workout from my plan. When I attempt this, the message reads “looks like you’re offline, so today’s workout may differ from your plan.” Otherwise, the app works well with a connection.

App is not working all day. What is wrong with it?

Heed my warning, and do not download or trust this app. This app is a complete scam. I received an email stating that my subscription was renewed at $119, however, I’ve never signed up for this app. When I googled this app, it stated that it is a scam and known for sending phishing emails in order to scam people.

I’ve been lifting for 30 years and I like the app because I don’t have to plan my workout. I do not like that I cannot change body part focus on my workouts for an extended period of time. It is getting better. I am interested in how the injury feature works.

Very good for progression building, but the UI struggles communicating between the app and Apple Watch. Constantly desync. It does the job, it could do it better.

I really like being able to try different programs without much thought and just go for it. I’ve seen results in the mirror within a couple months and the progression feels real. Minus one star for the following wish list: I wish I could chat with an AI agent that can see my history for recommendations or how to use the app or workout specific advice for me personally. Bar selection is currently cumbersome when I need to switch an exercise from an Olympic 45lb to an EZ bar and it doesn’t remember my selection. The screen on a specific set will randomly switch back to the full workout screen. Also I’d like to see my BPM on any screen. Apple Watch integration lags the app somewhat. And the rest timer chime doesn’t always work. Can I have some options for that chime too? Please add a de-load option and/or automatically ask if I want to de-load after a time frame where I didn’t work out.

The week starts on Sunday and there’s no way to change it. It messes up the schedule especially if you take Sunday off. I also think it doesn’t take into consideration your age. So you guess they fixed this so the week starts whenever I want, in my case Mondays. Thank you. There’s still the age factor. Any chance you add that?

Been using this since the start of the year, overall, very pleased. That said, it would be nice if there was a note you could add when you skipped or cut an exercise short so AI can read and learn whether a skip is temporary or not. I have and injury and cut an exercise short but the app figured I was just starting over or something. The injury beta should also include a rehab rather skip- scaled back but still working it out. The LLM or MCP being used doesn’t seem as intelligent as it it could be.

Overall, I like this app and have used it for years. It will put together workouts for you, let you create your own, focus on splits, etc. It’s good to track workouts and progress over time. My biggest complaint is that it does not suggest very good weights to use a lot of the time. For example, in my last workout, it calculated I should use 7.5 pound weights for a specific exercise, when the last time I did it, I used 40 pound weights. The app said it was because it had been so long since I had done that exercise. It had been three months and I did similar exercises in the meantime. Or it won’t update weights. It continues to suggest the same weight for squats, going on ten weeks now. Great that it plans workouts, but far less useful when it does things like that. And it doesn’t always go too light - do three sets of 8 pull-ups, now the app says you can do 13 reps. And it seems to get stuck in a loop with the weights. I have dumbbells that go in 2.5 pound increments, but 95%of the time, the app only suggests 27.5 pounds, 32.5, 37.5, etc. I have no idea why it acts like it’s allergic to 25, 30, 35, but its suggestions and calculations take away the benefit of being able to slowly increase weight by 2.5 pounds. That’s just more of an annoyance than a problem with the app, but it still impacts how it plans workouts, limiting the usefulness.

I’ve been using this app for three years now and I can honestly say that it’s been worth the cost. It keeps me on track and motivated. Along with my iwatch it takes care of tracking and planning my workouts. What I would like to see though are options within the exercises where you can change focus from one muscle group to another,as well as changing focus to specific parts of the muscle group. Being able to target upper chest by switching grip or focusing on not just the glute but the different areas some exercises that target specific parts of the glute. Also my weights are limited but fornsome reason all of my exercises are less reps and sets than I have been doing. Just curious about that.

I’ve had this app for almost 5 years. I think that says enough, but I’ll continue. I love the versatility of the app, by that I mean there are multiple “automatic” settings that you can set if you want the app to build workouts for you, help you figure out how many exercises you should be doing and more. I generally use it more to help my build my own workouts and keep track of what I like. It helps track your goals and progress as well. There are some things I’d change but that can be said for basically every app in existence. For the devs: my only recent thought would be that it’d be awesome if there was a calendar tab in the app. To see what workouts were upcoming and more. For me I like building weeks ahead what workouts I’m going to do and I’m sure other people would feel the same. That way if people only like runs or bikes on certain days, instead of having to change the exercise everytime the app says to do it. They can plan ahead what workouts for what days and what exercises they’re going to do. I’m sure it would help people stay on track and look ahead at what the app has in store for them. It would also help a great way to track progress and see future benchmarks. Also a way to write notes on the app, for different exercises and such.

Needs more abs, and most they have are two hard for seniors. Need more of something less intense.

It used to be great, but now it’s not working on Apple Watch. I’ve downloaded multiple times and now it won’t even install on watch. There was an update to fix this -however the icon still doesn’t show on my Apple Watch face. Minor inconvenience, but fully functional.

Does a decent job of giving workout advice, but doesn’t seem to use history to update the weight set points. I’ve had a few times when I can do more weight or less than what the app recommends and it doesn’t update the next time it pulls up that lift. Doesn’t seem to really progress you month over month, you have to tell it you’re doing more.

Add stretching to the work out

Doesn’t work on Apple Watch though

This App would be perfect if you could add your own custom exercises and track them in the same way that the inapp exercises are tracked. While they do have a lot to choose from there are some niche or uncommon exercises that are missing. Expanding upon the achievement system, similar to other apps where you get badges for monthly/weekly challenges, compete on leaderboards with your friends or the local community would be cool The pricing for workout apps are expensive these days, $15 a month or $80 a year is insane with no option for permanent ownership, though Im sure if it were an option itd be $180+ . Overall its not a bad app, but could definitely do more if they wanted to.

My only complaint is that sometimes the workouts become extremely difficult for no reason. Recently I was recommended to do 5 sets of 200 crunches in one workout. There’s also been times where the app seems to want to destroy one muscle group despite it being fatigued from the last workout.

Fitbod is a strong app for a lot of people. I had been working out kind of the same for a year and a half and was getting bored and needed to change things up. Fitbod helped push me to do different exercises. I like that it allows you to add your gym, which is about 95% accurate on what weight they have. However, it does not allow you to do the same thing with the second gym if you got more than one gym. I like that has timers between sets that you can change, but it doesn’t learn if you like less time between sets. The standard is pretty long, like two minutes on a lot of exercises. If you have not done a lot of weight workouts, this will help you train you how to do them and push you to do different things. So probably a five star rating for a beginner or an intermediate person. For someone like me who’s worked out for a number of years, it still needs a little bit of development

Great app. Sometimes just repetitive work outs

Great product with a lot of potential. One simple improvement could make Fitbod significantly better: allow users to save the sports they play or are training for in their preferences. The AI could then incorporate those sports into its existing variables when building workouts. For example, if I select golf and surfing, Fitbod could tailor my strength, mobility, power, and recovery work around the physical demands of those sports while still considering my goals, available equipment, training history, muscle recovery, and workout duration. It seems like a natural extension of what Fitbod already does well and would make the AI-generated workouts feel much more personalized and purposeful.

I really enjoy this app, but my biggest critique is that I wish they would continuously add more exercise workout equipment to expand upon its library and planning capabilities.

Watch app and phone app fight each other a lot. Otherwise a good app.

Why do I have to pay why can’t I js use it it looks so perfect then I see a subscription I wish it was free because I would be SUPER happy but now I am not…:(

This app has made a huge difference in the consistency of my workouts. It also tracks progressive overload really well. Only complaint is that it’s hard to add in an exercise if it’s not already there.

I feel like I m getting weaker not stronger.

I absolutely cannot say enough good things about this app. It has literally been one of the foundational things that helped me lose 72 pounds over the last year. It has pushed me to be bigger better and stronger than I’ve ever pushed myself in my entire life. however, this latest update seems to have completely scaled the app back to where it is not scaling reps correctly anymore. It is no longer pushing me and the insights that it gives are completely useless. If you’re going to use an AI assist thing it should at least tell you the reason why am I loading or deloading because I have a Max lift coming up or because I struggled with something last time but it just tells you silly nonsense that doesn’t assist with anything. You guys really need to rework this last update. My workouts are not as good as they used to be so now I’m fighting them every day checking histories to see what i should push. This might drive me away from this app if it is not fixed somewhat soon.

Some days I want to take my dog for a walk and there is not a way to add a workout with a weighted vest. Not every day do I lift weights so it would be nice to have suggested aerobic activities outside.

I would say it’s a good app but I HAVE to get a subscription to use the app and I shouldn’t have to.

I really love this app. I feel there is enough variety and challenge that I don’t get bored and I love that it is very customizable and geared toward my personal goals. When I first started using it there were some glitches with the number of reps or with equipment but I don’t see that as much any more so it has either learned me or has been fixed. My only complaint is that I wish there was a dedicated core workout or that core was more of a focus for the workouts. Pretty much all I get are deadbugs and planks but I don’t always want to go searching to add other exercises, so typically I turn to YouTube to do an actual guided core workout after my Fitbod workout. Adding more core-focused sets would make this app pretty much perfect!

Heavy bag not included

This is a great app for beginners and intermediate level workouts. It takes the guest work out of your routine at the gym. I love how you don’t have to think about what you will be doing for the day. The fact that it keeps track of your progress is awesome too. Sometimes I gotta ask myself who they think I am when I see the routine, but I generally get through it. It will push you to get better. I have over 1000 workouts on this app and the only setback I would say is it can get a little repetitive. I will say, though with the new update, it does seem to switch the workout up a little more. All in all a great app for working out.

I needed something to get me into a more well rounded work out. I don’t have time to plan it out and I don’t want too. Fitbod takes care of all that so I just get up and go to the gym. It also really helped me understand what I was doing wrong on some movements that was causing a ton of back pain. I will be a lifelong subscriber. Couple future improvements to consider: live update of gym equipment while in a workout session. Sometimes you don’t know what added equipment might be in a gym on vacation. Inclusion of injuries to help suggest workouts that should avoid those muscle/ tendon groups. I realize this gets into Dr. territory but anything to make the user think about it would be helpful.

I can add belt squat to the list of equipment but not the list of exercises.

I’ve used Fitbod for about a year, with 235 workouts and 8.8 million pounds of volume logged. The insights, Apple Watch integration, and logging are genuinely good, and I’ve stayed with it through a gym change. Two gaps are making it hard to justify the subscription, and I’ll frame them from a product perspective since that’s my work. The muscle model is too coarse. Fitbod treats back as one unit, but lats, traps, rhomboids, and rear delts are trained by different movements. I’d want to filter the exercise library by region, so I could select rhomboids and see every exercise that trains them, or select back for the full group. It matters for the engine too. If recovery tracking can’t distinguish lats from upper back, it reads “back trained” and recommends accordingly, even when I’ve hit one hard and left the other untouched. Fitbod already tags exercises by muscle, so this is finer granularity in existing tagging, and it benefits every user. The library doesn’t cover specialty equipment. I train at a gym stocked with Panatta, Watson, Atlantis, and Prime Fitness, brands built around resistance profiles rather than general commercial use. Custom exercises don’t solve it. I type the name, classify the loading type, and tag muscles myself, and per your own documentation the algorithm still doesn’t adjust for custom exercises. I do the work and get a record the engine ignores. What I’d want is to search a machine by name, have the app classify it, and treat it like any library exercise, including a starting weight estimate refined over the first few sessions the way Fitbod already does for new exercises. Both are refinements to systems you’ve built, not new products. Recent releases haven’t addressed either, and at the current price the value isn’t there for me.

This app has made the gym more accessible for me & that’s made me more consistent than ever. 15 weeks not missing a work out, seeing consistent gains & easily tracking progress. However I got an injury that kept me out of the gym for a week (ankle & wrist injury, couldn’t even go on walks) which ruined the streak I was so proud of. I’m also now back at the gym but frustrated I can’t give specific feedback about my injuries (what parts of my body I need to be gentle with) to curb the exercises provided. After this experience I’m begging for a vacation and/or injury mode. As my wrist and ankle are healing, it would be awesome to know what exercises I should avoid & also which ones I can do to slowly build strength back up. I hope something like this becomes available in the future!

I wish the app had an easier way to adjust workout based on joint issues or limitations

I really like that this app is easy to. It obviously keeps track of my workouts, even the ones not done in this app like a class. I like that I’m getting stronger and that the new ai feature tells me what I did last work out and how to progress this time. It really takes the guess work out of what I need to do in the gym. I really like the ability to add, remove or swap out exercises.

This app got me going to the gym and pretty consistently. The workouts are great and keeping track of my reps and weights is super helpful having a time rest makes it easy. I feel like it is a little overpriced as each workout doesn’t feel challenging as if you had a in person physical trainer. overall worth buying IF you use it consistently.

I’ve never been the person to know what to do in the gym (weights wise). Fitbod has definitely been a motivator to do literally anything other than cardio. One thing I struggle with is I’m doing this in my home gym which is way smaller than a normal gym and it gets old having to move everything down/off/over/etc. I wish there was a way to work with a couple things without having to tear down, restack etc.

App is great love how you can customize the work outs and create a workout that really makes you feel accomplished. Only thing I would say to improve on is make it compatible with the garmin app.

Love the app. I like to prioritize both hypertrophy and cardio a lot so unfortunately this lacks a bit of cardio options / suggestions / functionality.

I’ve had this app for years. Great for keeping track of progress and organizing workouts to keep guys like me from meandering around without a specific plan. Would like to see more options. Could use some club workouts for shoulders and the app could use some more calisthenics and cardio exercises like latter routines for footwork,etc. But definitely has been worth the price over the years so if you are hesitant I’d recommend giving it a try!

Reliable, quality 4-star app. I use it to track my workouts, weights on exercises, and keep track of sets, reps, and rest times. It’s great! The reasons it’s not a five: 1) no integration with Garmin 2) the variability among recommended exercises and the utilization of the pieces of equipment I designated as having access to is limited, but, to be sure, is still there: it could be better. Would definitely recommend to anyone sculpting their own workouts.