Starting Strength Official

If you're just getting into lifting, this is the best app out there. It boils down a pretty large fitness book that you might not actually read into like 6 pages of info you will (with accompanying form videos). And it deals with the progressive overload stuff for you. I think I'd like to see a bigger emphasis in the app on diet; a lot of novices are going to use this and not eat enough and get frustrated with lack of progress.

I have been a SS fan for a long time. I was hoping that this would be a great improvement over the last iteration. However, after installation I was not pleased with the app layout and lack of workout flexibility. I tried to get a refund [within 15 minutes of download] and was denied a refund.

Extremely satisfied with the app. Very informative and well organized. Clean interface, simple and functional. Worth every cent. No additional cost. What you pay is what you get. Lifting weight is serous science and Starting Strength does an excellent job in bringing that knowledge to you in an app. As a sport therapists I recommend this app to beginners and advanced lifters. Customer support is also very responsive and helpful. Keep up the good work Mick and thank you for your effort.

A little expensive (especially when other apps are free), but it gets the job done. Especially helpful is the plate calculator. Combined with automatic weight progression, all you need to do is show up and lift. Includes some of the text from each chapter, along with a gif of the movements, so you can review your form between sets. Would be nice if they added the option to make Wednesday a light squat day.

I don't have many fitness apps to compare it with, but the ease of being able to integrate the workouts, progression, and even change the weight of bars and availability of different plates is fantastic. I especially love the visual guide which shows how many of which plates to put on the bar is great for when I start getting dumb and put too much or too little weight on. If you're looking to get into the starting strength program I recommended this app for all the features and abridged book.

Functional, useful and consistent. As a newbie to strength training this is an immensely helpful app. It walks the user through a steady linear progression increasing weight with every workout. The suggested weights and reps for warm up sets is great and helps the user reduce the risk of injury. Plate recommendations for how to set up the bar helps keep things moving along without having to pause for math. I'm just two months into it, but it has really helped my confidence and consistency.

While I believe that Mark Rippetoe's Starting Strength is a good program, this app is not a good representation of said program. It is not intutive and simple enough to use. If I just finished my last set of squats, and I click the "next rep" button, why doesn't it take me to the next exercise? Why am I forced to click on the menu on top? Why do I have to tap the phone, to silence the countdown timer, once it hits 0? Why not just make it beep 3 or 5 times? Why do I always have to login again every time I turn on the app to backup my data? Why are there like 4 or 5 buttons on the workout screen, all of them with different options? The only thing on my workout screen should be my exercises (sets and reps), weights and a timer. All the extra options and settings, just keep them in a separate menu. Why does the app respond terribly to landscape mode? Why is there even a landscape mode, when it's not even needed in the first place? Stronglifts is a complete ripoff of Starting Strength, but their app is simple and intuitive to use. That's a big reason why its such a successful app and you can't keep up with your competition with apps like these. Keep it simple.

Great app to have for running a LP and is still good to have even if you're not. It will show you what plates you need for each weight and having quick access to the demo videos and excerpts from the book is extremely helpful. My only problem with it is that you can't reprogram the exercises, reps, and sets more for post-LP programming.

if you are doing the Starting Strength Linear Progression you are in better hands than a notebook. The plate calculator is especially helpful (for me at least). Timer is an outstanding function. I don't have any major complaints about this one for you guys. If you're just looking for a workout app it will probably confuse you until you figure out the program it is desogned to fit.

I've been using it for a few years, but recent updates to the UI has just made things far less efficient. Used to be a streamlined app that took only a few clicks to decide what you were going to do in the gym, then do it. Now the options are buried deeper with smaller fonts and buttons and poorly functioning text fields. I abandoned the devs new app when it was clear it wasn't made for usability, and now this one is moving the same direction.

The aesthetic and functionality is minimalist and barebone which is a huge plus. I dislike apps that try to do too much. However the app constantly hangs or freezes, or buttons do not actually work properly. I also cannot figure out how to change the plates that are available. If those issues can be addressed I would or will give the app 5 stars because otherwise it is a great app.

This app is kinda falling apart. I restored my old data just fine, but a lot of changes don't seem to "take" Changing the plates I had available, changing current weight, workload etc. All required several attempts and app restarts. Now, when I try to change the day of a workout from today to yesterdays date, it won't let me put 2021 (or 21) as the year lol. Clicking the email/bug report does nothing for pixel 3a users, lets me copy a header, but no email address. This app used to rule

Very happy with it thus far. I'm still figuring out a lot of good lifting technique, nutrition, and I think my age is starting to catch up with me a bit. This makes the app's linear progression projections a little ambitious for me. All told though, it's an excellent learning tool that helps simplify and deconflict my learning process as I get stronger!

Logs save trees. Has this picture thing with lines that go up after every workout. Kinda neat. Has excerpts from the book and form videos that show me how bad my form is. It has this buzzer thing that yells at you when it's time to lift. Takes counting to 60 in my head out of the equation so I can focus on the next set. Makes you go deaf if you're wearing earbuds. Awesome feature. I havent moved the barbell when deadlifting since using. 10/10 will lift again.

Got the app after buying the book. A lot of great info in the app from the book as well as good instructional videos. Awesome that you put in what weights you have and it programs your warm ups and working sets. Very easy to use and progress tracker is slick too. Sometimes cant seem to get something to load but a simple getting out of the app and back in fixes it and have never lost a workout progress. Well done on the app!

I love using this app. Lays out the sets and weights for you even showing you which plates to use. You can customize the bar weight and weight increments and rest intervals. For some reason the deadlift rest inervals don't change once you hit your work set and for some reason there is only one work set which seems odd. Overall a very useful app that is worth the price tag.

Great app, useful information in both reading and visual resources. I only knock one star because the apps clock/timer is stating to pause midway through rest coundowns between reps. Imagine it be updated eventually. Still highly recommend the app all the same if youre new or getting back into the swing of things and want to do things right regarding form.

When deloading it erases all the warmup weights, there should be a way to manually change the workset weight since failing that and rolling back doesn't change the warmups already done in reality.

Since the big update, all my continuing progress got wiped, so had to consult the training history to re-enter my workset weights. The chinup seems to have disappeared from workouts, even though there are still settings options for it. And this current workout didn't increase the increments from the last workout, so again had to consult the (luckily still there) training history data. Everything was great before this last update, now there's some bugs that need fixing. 4 stars until then. Thx.

Only complaint is when you go to progress and some of the other views that force a horizontal screen rotation don't return to a vertical rotation when you go back home or to settings where the screen should be vertical. The only way I've found to fix it is to close out the app and re-open it.

Not what I thought it was. Maybe works well for some, but it only focuses on a few lifting positions. Definitely not worth the money for me.