SHRED: Gym & Home Workouts

I feel Shred is one of the most motivating fitness apps I’ve used and I’ve used them all. It has just enough of the community element without being distracting or influencer driven. The workouts are challenging and you can customize based on frequency and equipment. So why four stars? For anyone who’s mildly experience with training or weight lifting, you’ll find yourself wishing for more control over workouts. For example, I can’t create my own from-scratch workout. You have to rely on what Shred’s algorithm creates for you. Also, for workouts skew MUCH longer. A “30 minute” workout usually lasts me 45 mins to an 60 mins or more, and I follow the rests accurately. Also, if you really like data about your progress, this app may not be for you. It’s impossible to find PRs for individual exercises unless you’re in the middle of a workout (there’s a button to see historical data for an exercise there). Another quirk with Shred is editing. Sometimes i like to edit my days workout in advance. But, if you close the app, it loses your edits and you have to start all over. Overall, Shred is outstanding and motivating despite some quirks.

I’ve been using the app for almost a year now and over the past few months it has become extremely glitchy The ai does not make adjustments to workouts despite that being advertised, i think I’ve told it over 5 times over the past few months to give me more machine oriented workouts (yes the relevant equipment is selected in settings) and it just doesn’t listen despite giving a confirmation “the next workout will include more machine oriented workouts” The phone app and apple watch app lose sync causing incorrect data being written to apple health The apps buttons just stop working during workouts, clicking next before a rest doesn’t go to rest but the next workout begins. Force quitting restores functionality but I’ve had a workout completely reset as a result OR the app recovers but the apple watch app thinks you have the workout paused Not sure if the devs have embraced vibe coding recently, but recent app performance tells me “probably” Canceling membership and going back to traditional workout tracking, really wanted this app to work out!