ASICS Studio: At Home Workouts 12+

I was pleasantly surprised by this app- seems to be included as part of my runkeeper subscription. My gym closed until further notice and this has been an absolute bombshell! Quick workouts, easy to do at home, I find myself working out multiple times a day! Going back to the gym now would be an increase of time and cost to actually decrease my exercise habits. The app isn’t perfect, for example if you leave a workout before it’s it will not save your progress and you have to start it over. So before you start a workout make sure you preview and understand all of the exercises and have set aside the necessary time and equipment to finish.

I’ve only used treadmill workouts. I’m in a trial period from Runkeeper so I don’t know what this will cost but it is a very good way to get through treadmill workouts. Upbeat instructors; lots of changes in hills and speed to break up the boredom and good music.

Three suggestions to make it even better: 1. Allow the user to enter miles at the end for each treadmill workout so you can track improvement on the same workout over time (maybe tie to runkeeper account); 2. Provide some type of utility where the user can enter some data (previous race result, average mile pace, data from runkeeper activities, etc) and have the utility give some ideas as to what speeds 60%, 70%, etc might be- that’s frequently referenced by the instructor but I have no idea what my target is for those numbers; 3. Keep the tunes playing after the workout-I frequently want to workout longer than the set workout time and it would be nice if the music played until the user pressed “done” on the workout summary screen.

App works really well, but it could use some tweaks that would make it even better. I like to watch shows or movies when I work out, so I like that you can disable the music and that it shows you what the next interval or step is. I don’t like that it still shows what you had completed and not the next several steps so you can be prepared for the next sprint or interval. It would be really helpful if when looking for a workout the summary of each workout and a incline and speed graph or summary was present. I also don’t like that the core/weight workouts assume that you know the “move” and that there is no summary of technique or video demonstrating what you should be doing. Overall, I really like the app. I like that they have some workouts that mix the cardio and core/strength workouts. I wish you could customize what you wanted to do for each workout and it would put something together for you.