STNDRD: Bodybuilding Workouts 4+

Absolutely love this app, I used to track all my workouts and progress on paper, god forbid I forgot a writing utensil or my dog ate my logs. I started using this app in January when a workout buddy suggested it. Prior to that I was just getting back into the rhyme of going again after starting back up mid October with my same boring workouts, dragging myself to the gym. Once I started using this app and getting used to it I started looking forward to hitting the gym again after work and falling back in love with this hobby of mine. Best part is I don’t even have to think about my workouts, I just open the app and go to the next workout. Mid October I was touching 260lbs, now I’m around 233lbs at 5’9”… absolutely love love love this app! Only suggestion is maybe adding a section for whatever seat setting you prefer, which I can easily do in the note section so not having that option doesn’t bother me at all. Actually my only real complaint is I wish I could have started using this app 13 years ago when I was active duty in the Marines!

First off, I’d like to say I’m a big fan of Cbum, hence why I got this app! (Congrats on being 4x MrOlympia)
Unfortunately, I don’t feel that it’s reached it’s full potential and has a lot of room for improvement, even after the recent update. It does have some good basic features, the routines are good, but comparing it to others on the market, it falls a short. One big area is the macro/ food aspect. It would elevate the app if you had the feature where you could track your food within or tie it with MyFitnessPal, etc. My second suggestion would be more thorough explanations of how to perform the workout, rather that a 3-5 second clip with no audio. My experience with the developers when reaching out is that they have taken several days to reply, which I would expect a quicker response, or at least a confirmation that they’ve received my request and are working on it, given this is a paid for service. Speaking of developers, there are some bugs in this app still, such as when checking out the macro portion of it, it prompts me to sign up… though I’m already signed in with my paid for account. Another thing I have found is when I’m in the middle of my workout, it calls for rest-pause sets in the beginning, but then defines drop sets. There are no drop sets in that specific exercise. I really want to like this app, but I am going to have to cancel my subscription and revisit it down the road as I don’t see the juice is worth the squeeze on this one

I’ve been using the CBUM app for a year now, and already wasn’t a huge fan of the apps performance. At least once a workout the app would crash, and I would have to resume the workout. But at the very least it saved my progress (sets, reps, load). Since it updated to STNDRD, I have consistently had worse performance than ever before with CBUM. The timer does not run if you are not in the app. If it crashes (once again once a workout), it does not save your progress and you have to scroll through every exercise that you’ve already completed to pick back up where you left off. Furthermore, as soon as I finish my workout, it wipes all the information from my entire lift. Does not save sets, reps, weight, anything. The programs and individual workouts are decent quality, with workouts and programs built in with phases as well as beginner intermediate and advanced designations. But if you’re looking for something to replace your lift journal or your rest timer, this isn’t it. Fix the timer and the progress and it’s an easy 5 stars, but as it stands, for what I need the app for, it falls terribly short.

For $120 a year (1/3 the cost of a year’s membership to my gym) you’d expect something a bit more polished. I feel bad paying $50.