Five/Three/One - 531 Workouts

Kinda hard to make money that way, ain’t it?

Best fitness app I’ve used yet from a UI perspective, admittedly I am partial to minimalist night-mode apps like this.

I enjoy most everything about this app except… If you start a cycle but get off track, and want to restart that cycle at a later date, it won’t let you. I started to get back into it two weeks ago, life sidetracked me, and I tried to delete that cycle and start a new one, but I am unable to. It will simply default to the previous date for starting it.

Doesn't consistently save your training max values. Add a value to 1 Set.. save changes. Go back in, and it reverts back to its previous value. It works properly on the web page, but the app is broken. Sometimes you can go in and adjust up, then back down. Other times it just won't change. If you can't set your maxes properly, what's the point of the app? Broken.

Love the App , but the Assistance tab is misleading … it was advertised at $9.99 but once it charged it came out $16.21. Charged for another feature …

One thing I would love to see is an apple watch companion app. Just a rest timer with a button to move between sets is all it needs. That’s something I’d pay for. Everything else is beautifully simple

Top notch app but needs Apple Watch support.

It’s an amazing app that follows Wendler’s programming extremely well. Easy to use. I wish the creator would update it to reflect all the programming in 531 Forever.

I like the approach taken here vs other lifting or program specific apps, but there is still a lot of work that needs to be done to make this worth the cost of its add-ons. Here are some initial bugs/suggestions. 1. A bit pedantic, but “dumbbell” is spelled wrong everywhere it is mentioned. 2. Why, no matter what variation of 5/3/1 I choose, can I only adjust the timer of the Boring But Big sets? If I’m doing FSL, that setting should be for FSL sets. 3. Need to be able to choose to complete exercises out of order. Let’s say it’s bench day and two of my accessories are the fly machine and dips, and in the app the are entered in that order. If the fly machine is taken and I have to do dips first, there is no way for me to log dips as I go. This same scenario also applies to warm up exercises. I like to do hip abductors and adductors before squatting, but have no way of logging those as I do them since the only way to get to them is to skip all the squat sets. 4. Should be able to set a timer per accessory exercise, instead of a one size fits all timer. Edit: have to take another star off after experiencing another bad design flaw that made me stop giving this app a chance. If you miss a workout you could only reschedule that missed workout, and none of the other upcoming workouts, without resetting the entire cycle. So let’s say you have Workout A scheduled on Saturday and then Workout B scheduled for Sunday. If you miss Workout A then you could reschedule it for Sunday. But there is no way to reschedule Workout B too until that workout is also considered missed. The result is that the app tells you that you have to complete 2 workouts each day, unless you reset your whole cycle. You should be able to just push all workouts ahead by however many calendar days or workout days were missed.

Please make this app Apple Watch compatible!