Reviews for Starting Strength Official

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

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 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.

I really like this app. I'm not what I would consider a novice lifter and have been doing 5/3/1 for a few years now and just wanted to try something different. I lowered my starting weights so I could get a good couple months in linear progression. That being said, I like the automatic rest timers and the fact that I don't have to think about what weight to do the following workout. I have a squat bar (55lbs) as well as a power bar (45lbs) and like how I can set the bar weight for each exercise.

UPDATE: The new changes fixed the app for me. It's still a little sluggish but it doesn't crash. It makes calculating the weights for each warm up and set easy, definitely worth the money. This could be a great app but it constantly crashes and the UI is a bit unintuitive. More than anything I just wish I could count on it to run without freezing at the loading screen regularly.

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!

Somewhat functional, but bugged. All I want is to go into the app and have it figure out that since I did the press last time, I need to do the bench today. Instead I have to manually set the second exercise every time. It's also as other reviewers have noted, slow and occasionally unresponsive. Data storage should be local first, not cloud first, and the app should opportunistically sync. Second star for functioning well enough as a weight calculator.

Perfect companion to the SS program. Super easy to use app, and really makes tracking your workouts painless. It calculates your next workout weight for you and all of your warmup weights and reps. Has links to Rip's videos and to the sections of the book you need. Well worth the couple of bucks! Only issue is sometimes when in the menu the buttons stop working and I have to close out of the app and re-open, but it auto-saves your workout every step of the way, so you won't lose your progress!

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.

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.

The strength program in this app is the best I've seen. The aesthetics could be better but you get used to them. The alarm choices are awful. I turned them off. Yes, I would buy it again for the ease of tracking and the solid strength training program. 5/24/2022 The aesthetics have improved and now there are more programs. There are better videos and explanations of the exercises. I've noticed the price has risen, but I still bought this app for 3 of my sons and will buy it for my daughter.

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.

This is a really useful app for the basic novice program and even allows you to add chinups as progression advances. This app would be even better if it had the option of adding mid-week back-off for the advanced novice program. As it sits, the mid week set for squats just needs to be modified or added later and calculated by hand, which is not difficult. This is about as useful of an app as I can think of for a lifting program. Edit: They added advanced novice. This is great.

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.

Perfect for following starting strength. The weight plate calcs, and progression set-up is really helpful. You could do it on paper, but the app saves a lot of effort in record keeping. There are a couple of small bugs in the timers between exercises. After warm up, you expect a timer, but it doesn't activate. Between warm up sets you get it, and between set 1-2-3 workset it activates.

Perfect. Simply perfect. Please don't change a thing. Update: they changed a lot of things. I have very poor Wi-Fi in my basement where I work out, it seems the app depends on a solid Internet connection. Make the app almost useless. You can't make changes to the weights in your inventory, you have to update every single exercise when you modify your weights. There's no way to go back and complete today's training if you accidently submit it, because it's easy to do and not intuitive.

I loved this app, and I am still grateful for it, but I'm pretty frustrated that it's been having a lot of problems in the past year or so, like not responding when I try to finish my day/save my progress, and forgetting the weight plates that I already told it I own. If it were free, it would be okay to try to work around, but I expect more from a paid app.

Enjoy the starting strength program, but this app is barely in life support. I can "log" a workout but it doesn't save anywhere. I can't see the progress being made. Doesn't swap to the next workout properly. Keep losing settings for units and the plates I have available. $15 lost, time to find a better app.

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.

Good things cost money. This app gives you everything you need to start weight training except the equipment (which you can buy from the app or find a gym in your area). The UI is clean with some minor scaling issues on my phone and easy to navigate. The instructions for each exercise is provided in 3 ways. You get access to articles on nutrition, habits and can connect with others through a forum. The best part is that Starting Strength is based hard science.