BLOK: Workouts & Fitness

Review

Great to keep me on track whether at home or travelling. Love the reminders to keep focus on fitness

Classes can be filtered by category but it would be really useful to be able to filter by class name (instead or in addition). Calisthenics doesn’t appear under any category so at the moment it’s impossible to quickly view the schedule. It would be good if you could save a default preference for the timetable so it shows only the specific site(s) or on demand videos as required rather than needing to adjust the filter every time you open the app. ‘Add to Calendar’ option still doesn’t work so I have to go into email and add these after booking. For on demand workouts it would be useful to filter by class name and also by duration. It’s not very easy to navigate the catalogue and there isn’t an ability to save favourites or create your own programme with multiple videos (unless I am missing something) so it takes way too long to find the classes you want to do each time. I don’t bother with BLOK TV any more since it’s been app only even though I know the quality of videos and instructors is great and there are some specific things I’d like to work on at home.

App keeps logging me out and doesn’t recognise pw and/ or email Very frustrating. Then the service for responding is super slow.. 48hrs to get an answer to a query! Crazy

The app and the creative content on both the app and website is spot on.👌 Easy to use and the design is cool and progressive.

Showing cancelled classes in my streak. I think this just gave me an extra class but because it’s not showing cancelled classes there’s no way to cross check. Pleased to finally see filters by class type but such a pity they don’t work at all. Would be nice to dismiss notifications on main page but can’t. Really surprised not to see an update in App Store. Was also confused as to why it didn’t appear under a search for BLOK.

When you want to book a one off class it lets you pay for the class and looks like you have booked it with a swipe but doesn’t book you in- just gives you a pass for a class. So you think you booked - you get a confirmation that it came of your bank account - turn up at the studio only to be told that you are not booked!

App works well but Blok makes it very difficult to cancel membership. It’s buried within a help article and forces you to email support. Based on that dreadful experience, I won’t be renewing my membership anytime soon.

Today the app doesn’t even open. Technical issues constantly. Many less classes since you changed things. Blok come on, sort it out

469 on-demand workouts were available on the now defunct BlokTV website. Only 63 have made it to the app. Give us back the 406 ones that have disappeared! Adding insult to injury, some of the ones that have made it onto the new app have been hugely shortened : of the 44 so brilliant barre workouts, only 14 remain and all of them have been reduced from 40-45’ to a max of 20’ and arbitrarily edited making them useless. They are also wrongly titled : « the leg and core workout » is in fact an exclusively « arms » one. It seems that the developers have reduced the initial Bloktv content without fitness and training in mind. The app is fancy looking but the selection of training videos is incredibly poor. What a shame.