Starting Strength Official
For Absolute Novices to Strength Training. Simple. Effective.
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4.65
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spammy, or outdated. Pros
- Excellent guidance through exercises and effective tracking of workouts.
- Helpful features like weight plate calculator and progression setup.
- Access to resources such as articles, videos, and instructional content.
- Functional for beginners and enhances confidence in strength training.
Cons
- App has multiple bugs and performance issues, including slow response and unresponsiveness.
- User interface changes have made navigation and usability worse over time.
- Requires frequent logins and has issues with settings not saving.
- Less intuitive compared to competing apps, leading to frustration.
Most mentioned
- Bugs and performance issues.
- Confusing and unintuitive user interface.
- Helpful weight progression and tracking features.
- Access to instructional content and resources.
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| Date | Author | Rating | Comment |
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| 2024-10-16 |  | | This is not a rating of the Starting Strength program, which is excellent. This is a rating of the app. The app is great, overall, and guides the user through the exercises well. There are a few bugs, however, and places where the user experience could be improved. I have notice a few things, but because of the char limit I will mention one small annoyance. If I am looking at another app on my phone, the exercise timer will send a Push notification when it's done. But I have to click it twice. |
| 2024-02-24 |  | | Somewhat functional, but bugged. All I want is to go into the app and have it figure out that since I did the press last time, I need to do the bench today. Instead I have to manually set the second exercise every time. It's also as other reviewers have noted, slow and occasionally unresponsive. Data storage should be local first, not cloud first, and the app should opportunistically sync. Second star for functioning well enough as a weight calculator. |
| 2024-02-19 |  | | I genuinely love the Starting Strength program. I own both the blue book and Practical Programming and after less than six months following it I was hoping the app would make my intermediate progression on Press more manageable with some sort of template. At quite a steep cost; this app seems to have been built by someone with a largely different view of the program than I've been led to believe by Mr. Rippertoe, with rest being less than 2 minutes and other weird quirks. Wouldn't recommend. |
| 2024-01-17 |  | | Perfect. Simply perfect. Please don't change a thing. Update: they changed a lot of things. I have very poor Wi-Fi in my basement where I work out, it seems the app depends on a solid Internet connection. Make the app almost useless. You can't make changes to the weights in your inventory, you have to update every single exercise when you modify your weights. There's no way to go back and complete today's training if you accidently submit it, because it's easy to do and not intuitive. |
| 2023-07-06 |  | | Good things cost money. This app gives you everything you need to start weight training except the equipment (which you can buy from the app or find a gym in your area). The UI is clean with some minor scaling issues on my phone and easy to navigate. The instructions for each exercise is provided in 3 ways. You get access to articles on nutrition, habits and can connect with others through a forum. The best part is that Starting Strength is based hard science. |
| 2022-12-27 |  | | While I believe that Mark Rippetoe's Starting Strength is a good program, this app is not a good representation of said program. It is not intutive and simple enough to use. If I just finished my last set of squats, and I click the "next rep" button, why doesn't it take me to the next exercise? Why am I forced to click on the menu on top? Why do I have to tap the phone, to silence the countdown timer, once it hits 0? Why not just make it beep 3 or 5 times? Why do I always have to login again every time I turn on the app to backup my data? Why are there like 4 or 5 buttons on the workout screen, all of them with different options? The only thing on my workout screen should be my exercises (sets and reps), weights and a timer. All the extra options and settings, just keep them in a separate menu. Why does the app respond terribly to landscape mode? Why is there even a landscape mode, when it's not even needed in the first place? Stronglifts is a complete ripoff of Starting Strength, but their app is simple and intuitive to use. That's a big reason why its such a successful app and you can't keep up with your competition with apps like these. Keep it simple. |
| 2022-05-24 |  | | The strength program in this app is the best I've seen. The aesthetics could be better but you get used to them. The alarm choices are awful. I turned them off. Yes, I would buy it again for the ease of tracking and the solid strength training program. 5/24/2022 The aesthetics have improved and now there are more programs. There are better videos and explanations of the exercises. I've noticed the price has risen, but I still bought this app for 3 of my sons and will buy it for my daughter. |
| 2022-05-10 |  | | If you're just getting into lifting, this is the best app out there. It boils down a pretty large fitness book that you might not actually read into like 6 pages of info you will (with accompanying form videos). And it deals with the progressive overload stuff for you. I think I'd like to see a bigger emphasis in the app on diet; a lot of novices are going to use this and not eat enough and get frustrated with lack of progress. |
| 2021-08-21 |  | | This is a really useful app for the basic novice program and even allows you to add chinups as progression advances. This app would be even better if it had the option of adding mid-week back-off for the advanced novice program. As it sits, the mid week set for squats just needs to be modified or added later and calculated by hand, which is not difficult. This is about as useful of an app as I can think of for a lifting program. Edit: They added advanced novice. This is great. |
| 2021-04-12 |  | | 4/11/21 App still doesn't apply changes to weights. If you back out of setting you can't get back in. You have to close the whole thing down. It's been like this for months and months. Update: on latest version. Nothing is fixed. Even after latest update the app still doesn't apply the setting you make. Also, once you back out to the main menu the setting button doesn't work anymore. |
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