Over the weekend, I installed the Gym Buddy app from the iTunes store onto my iPhone 4S. I needed a way to track my progress for weights over the next few months as I need to hone in the workouts. I need to make them shorter, more intense and I need to make some strength gains. The Gym Buddy isn’t the most perfect app for this sort of thing but it was the best out of the 5 I downloaded. If you want to check it out on iTunes here is the link.
Here are a list of the features. I warn you though. It is a time investment to setup everything in the app to fit your workout and learning the screens can be difficult. It is not intuitive but it is robust app.
Key features include:
- Allows you to edit your sets after you input them. Change the time, note, weight & reps anytime and anywhere they appear. You can move them from workout to workout, or even change the associated exercise.
- Has three countdown timers to monitor your rest periods. They beep and buzz independently at any duration and can even be set to start automatically when you enter a set.
- You can define an unlimited number of Plans for each workout where you can store your goals for that day. Each plan can contain a unique subset of the exercises in a workout and may also be sorted independently.
- Workouts can be sorted into different Groups of Workouts.
- You view your results in a concise, compact format that is definable by workout, time frame, and exercise. With the Calendar view you can view an entire month of workouts in one glance, seeing the date, name of the workout, and your workout volume — then flip from month to month. Select a day in the calendar and you see all the sets you performed on that day.
- Allows you to email your history — also by workout, exercise, and time — for backup and input to a spreadsheet.
- With a wifi connection to a computer, you can backup and restore the database — so you don’t have to worry about the security of your data.
- Shows your previous workout results right on the input screen, so you know what your goal is — no searching, no tabbing, its just there.
- Calculates your One Rep Max for each set and tracks your all-time best, which it celebrates by flipping the screen and yelling, “YES!”
- Draws a graph of your One Rep Max history for each exercise, breaking down each workout by set number (up to five sets) and also by your best set. Also graphs your Workouts by volume.
- Tracks and graphs your weight, body fat, BMI, and lean body mass, or anything else that can be expressed as a number including body measurements and supplement intake, and also includes an interval timer. No need to buy separate apps.
- Includes a detail screen for each workout and exercise showing an extensive summary of your performance.
- Compatible with Kilograms and allows for decimal weights.
- Allows for supersets, bodyweight, and assisted weight exercises. Cardio exercises can have up to four user-defined data fields.
