trainwell

This is what is needed. A compassionate coach who gently prods me when needed and works with me to get the workouts to be doable and not too uncomfortable and threatening. I feel stronger and I’ve never been able to keep to a regular workout schedule through periods of depression or insane busyness. It been a year and though ADHD means I’ve dropped most routines out of boredom I never want to give up my copilot subscription.

I started a trial after seeing someone on you tube say they’ve never been so consistent with a workout. I live about 35 minutes drive from the closest town and work from home, so going to the gym requires some planning. My challenge is knowing without accountability, I don’t work out. Unfortunately I can easily find more important things to do. I have tried quite a few online workout apps but without the accountability piece the subscriptions have gone mostly to waste, only being used irregularly. I’ve only been using copilot for a few weeks, but have so far felt excited to do my workouts (something I’ve never felt before) and haven’t missed one. I love that I can speak to my coach whenever I like, I don’t have to show up on zoom or a call because the workout is in the app so I have some flexibility, and the workouts are tailored to exactly what I need. Highly recommend.

It’s so much easier to get a professional to create workouts that fit you. I’m doing three a week now (start slow so your brain accepts the change) and each of them is different to keep it interesting. Can also have bonus workouts like stretches you can do at your desk but I might schedule those in. Price is very treasonable and I’ve got a poor exchange rate from Australia. It’s great to have someone to keep you accountable and it’s a lot less pressure than a public gym. I feel comfortable with the pace and I’m not near any injury, like I e done at the gym more than once and also at home when I’ve tried to curate my own workouts.

I live with chronic pain and have tried everything from very expensive 1:1 pilates/exercise physiology and PT to group classes and have struggled to get results and maintain progress due to the cost or lack of flexibility. CoPilot and my wonderful coach have enabled me to workout at home, when I feel able to and I have achieved more in 3 weeks than I have in 3 years. I also really appreciate that you can toggle calories on and off. For anyone with disordered eating and exercise patterns this allows you to focus on what’s really important - strength, routine and healthy steps!

Very impressed by the app and CoPilot concept so far. Re: specifically the functionality of the app, it would be great to be able to sync scheduled called with a Microsoft outlook account so it can go straight into my outlook calendar. Have also struggled with uploading videos with sound for some reason. I thought I pressed « allow » when the app asked if it could access the microphone but not too sure if it’s a tech thing or maybe I accidentally pressed the wrong thing. It would be a cool idea to be able to move around exercises within the workout as well, so instead of doing 3 sets of an exercise in a row, i.e, 3 sets of squats in a row, be able to mix the exercises around to make it a circuit-type workout.

I tried to create an account and the app had me put in my measurements (for some reason rather than getting them from the health app) and it was all in feet/inches and pounds. I don’t know those measurements and most of the world doesn’t either. Odd in this day and age when the conversion between them is so easy for a computer to do...

For $100 a month I can get workouts made with my specific goals in mind (and the equipment or lack there of at my disposal), have accountability from a real life person (texts and calls), and track other personalized health goals (for example: my water intake). Totally worth it!!

Well the review prompt popped up after having to retype my workout feedback after the app just got stuck on a white screen 🫠 App definitely needs some refinement and engineers dogfooding it some more because some parts of it are really frustrating to use but overall it’s simple and really helps you be proud of your workouts with the metrics/graphs. I’ve submitted feedback a few times.

If you’re looking for a workout app that can actually record your workout, look elsewhere. I tried submitting a small glitch of app feedback at the end of my workout and the entire thing crashed and erased my workout. So going here to submit: trainer voice randomly changed throughout the workout. Also app crashes if you try to use the in app feedback mechanism.

Just started the program and have already started bonding with my coach, Kara. The exercises I get and her customized comments make the workout very doable, inspiring me to continue.