Bowflex SelectTech

Really disappointed this only works with Dumbells not Selectech 2080 Barbell and Curlbar too. BowFlex website clearly states the app supports all “no matter which select tech model you choose” which is clearly misleading.

My PT helps me at the gym and I keep a detailed log of the exercises in order to repeat them by myself, even though this app is very useful for unplanned home training with the superb quality of Bowflex Select Tech 560 dumbbells, good varied choice of existing workouts and customisation guarantee “gym motivation” for me and I don’t need to keep my log as that’s automatically done by the app. For now I’m impressed, there’s other features that I have to discover and see if they fit the way I exercise. I give it a full five stars because it’s a finished product that really helps me to go straight into exercising and I see lots of potential for example providing analytics of the journal, and small improvements like being able to pause, leave the app and then come back and resume the session, picking up the heart beat from the Apple Watch.

The app works okay, but it’s a bit annoying that there’s only one routine for each muscle group in ‘workouts’. I found it very strange that the ‘travoltas’ in the shoulders workout is setup so that you do 2 sets on one side and one set on the other. This app could be so easily improved just by adding more workouts for each muscle group and/or considering 4 sets for each exercise instead of 3 to get around the imbalance issue. Put a couple of hours work in Bowflex and the app will be significantly improved.

Good enough but odd crashes and some expertises have 3 sets which doesn’t work when you have 2 legs! Nice little interface clean and simple. Quite enjoyable and genuinely nice expertises to follow. May be boring in a few months but great supplement to bow flex kit.

This app is very useful when I workout. However, the app crashes everytime I get a call on my cellphone and I have to restart the whole workout. To make this app a 5 star for me is to get the bug fixed or pause the session I left off at without having to redo the whole workout again

JRNY simply doesn’t compare.

I love this app. I started off with the 6-week challenge when I got my new Bowflex 552 adjustable dumbbells. Finished that, and now I just do “Choose a Workout” and work on back, chest, shoulders, etc. If I had any suggestion for improvement, it would be to have an option to see a preview video (instead of just a still image) of the workout they’re about to do before the workout timer starts so the user can estimate how much weight they think they’ll be able to lift for that particular exercise. Also, not sure if anyone else has this issue, but I use the app on my phone (as opposed to an iPad), and if I happen to get a call in the middle of a workout, it causes the app to crash and I lose all progress for my entire session. Quite annoying. I have to put the phone in “Do not disturb” mode so no calls come through. These are small things though and overall I really like the app and it complements the Bowflex 552 adjustable dumbbells nicely.

I love the exercises and the timer. The fact that it Keeps track of the weight you last used for the exercise is awesome!! JRNY is a joke compared to this app! Who wants some one yelling in your ear for the entire work out and not have an out line of the exercises or how much time for each.

It’s pretty useful. But I wish I could preview the exercise video before the start of it (while I’m pausing between sets). More annoying is that if I get a phone call during the workout, the app closes and I lose track of where I was. Unable to pickup where I was when the call came in. I guess I have to workout in Airplane Mode?

Not bad for beginners, will not support Apple Watch, will not connect to other apps like my fitness pal, overall is a better than nothing, not good not great not the best just useful for beginners