SHRED: Home & Gym Workout 12+

I’ve been telling myself for 10 years post college that I would finally commit to getting the body an athlete in the prime of his primordial existence should have. I wanted to be a warrior at the gym , I wanted to be a beast and do it alone.
I never wanted a trainer, I never wanted the small talk, the feeling of being somebody’s pay check. Shred gave me the keys to the castle. I have workouts that not only are the best in the gym BUT workouts where at least a few people ask me where I got my workout every single time, including trainers. The workouts are dynamic, athletic and efficient no matter what style you use.
I try to alternate between four different syles over the course of the year, LeanX and Crossshred when I’m in absolute beast mode and want to up my anaerobic and muscular conditioning . These styles have athletic work, and isolation work. I also do Bulk and Classic to focus more on iso and hypertrophy training for really working on muscle density. I also do my Shreds at the end of the workout to stay as chiseled as possible.
Shred has allowed me to kill it with the ladies, finally! Like a serious change that I’ve never had. I’ve never been the guy with the abs, but I really am now. I’m not cocky now I’m just confident and I guess happy. My job is not that amazing in a lot of ways and so Shred is finally something to look forward to at the end of the day .

It’s a really sweet app for working out and has the perfect set up, just need some tweaking. For example it asks in setting what equipment you have available to use and it saves your selections, but then when you use the guided workouts the workout isn’t tailored based on the equipment you select. So you end up using the alternatives which they nicely have as an option for every workout, but it would be super convenient if the workout program already was tailored to the settings. Also I wish there was a way to be able to use the app with no internet. At my gym it’s super crappy cell service and no Wi-Fi and so sometimes I can’t view the video instructions. Which leads to my other complaint- I wish they would have a stretching routine that wasn’t a class or video based program. I can’t use the videos at my gym and so if I want to do a suggested stretch I can’t since it’s only in video follow along format. If they had it set up to where it was like the workouts and it gave you video instructions on how to do the stretch and a timer for each one so I could use the feature without internet that’d be perfect. Another thing that would be awesome was that after a workout when it suggests a short 5 minute cardio or HIIT that it'd instead ask you how much time you wanted to spend on those extras. I love the option after a workout to do my cardio or HIIT but sometimes I have more time so if it’d let you select an amount vs the preset 5 min that’d be sweet.

I’ve never really been to the gym, aside from the two times my brother got me to go (he’s a personal trainer. I can’t go to him every week though because I live an hour away). The main reason is because I was honestly scared. Scared of what people would think of me, scared of not making enough improvement, and mostly scared of making a fool of myself because I simply don’t know how to use the equipment. This app is great because you can choose your workout style and how long you want to work out and the coaching style. It explains how to use the equipment so I at least LOOK like I know what I’m doing. I don’t go to the gym everyday but I’ve gone more times in the past couple of weeks than I have in my whole life and I love how alert I feel after a morning workout. The only critique I have is I wish the app would let you select your gender. I’m a female with a fairly large chest and some of the things that have you on your stomach is pretty much impossible for me to do without pain and I usually end up skipping those, meaning I’m not getting my full workout sometimes. But that’s really the only issue I’ve come across.