7 Minute Workout: Home Workout 4+

Once upon a time I was looking through the App Store for a workout app and I happen to come across this one. I didn’t think twice about purchasing it because it was free! Once I opened it and I was a little subdued… There weren’t that many options for workouts and it was a little bit laggy. Overtime I did the workouts but eventually I deleted the app. Now during quarantine I decided to try to do some more workouts. I read downloaded the app and was hugely surprised at the amazing changes the developer made. There are so many different workouts you can choose from! There’s music that goes along with it or you can import your own music! And you can save workouts to go back to them later!! Also every workout says how many calories u burn!This app is so good!! It even gives you a notification so you can stay on your fitness goals! You should definitely get this FREE app! There are no - yes I mean absolutely no - charges that the app gives you. It is absolutely utterly free. If you’re still not sure about getting this app just download it because it’s free and you can always delete it. This is hands-down the best free workout app you are going to find on the App Store. Convince me otherwise.

Developers are apparently always looking to change this app, not necessarily improve it. The product I subscribed to is no longer what I get and I have a very pretty but less beneficial product, overall inferior for my needs, compared to the previous version. I can no longer set the length of my workout or change the exercises in it so I’m not getting 30 minutes with no repeating exercises anymore. Even the exercises are different and I feel inferior to what the workouts previously offered. I can’t search for exercises anymore or I’d improve things at my end. There is some glitch in volume control and either my iTunes playlist won’t play (that happened first session today) or it plays too loud to hear prompts, regardless of the volume settings I use. I no longer get any audio indication I’m halfway through the workout and the final seconds before the rest period is only cued visually not audibly so you have to keep your eye on the screen. I often incorporated dumbbells into my workouts so a heads up on where I am in the current exercise and what’s coming up allowed me to quickly grab which ones I needed.

I wish I could still get the previous version and if I’d known it was disappearing I would have done screen shots of the excellent 30-minute sessions I used. Very disappointed. Can you tell? Haha! I LOVED the old version. I honestly feel I’ve already lost ground physically since losing access to it.

I’m not docking them any stars; still my favorite workout app, bar none. and they are hard at work updating the app, as they say. But the updates sometimes come with inexplicable changes, like when they eliminated the voice countdown at the end of each exercise. One improvement they made long ago was to lengthen the sets on the double sided exercises to 30 seconds each, instead of the too-short 15 seconds. but the one recent update reverted back to 15 seconds each side. (Has since been restored.) It would be nice if they actually specified the changes in the update history that they publish, instead of simply repeating the worthless statement about being hard at work improving the app. That said, the app is incredibly easy to follow with a wide range of different workouts so that you’ll never get bored. The instructional videos on how to perform each exercise are very complete and incredibly useful. And they finally got the music accompanying the workout to modify its volume so that the instructions and countdowns are still crystal clear. It remains my twice-weekly go-to cross training workout (3 sets).