Recently I was allowed access to review a great new fitness iPhone app called Fitness Builder from PumpOne. The app aims to be your one-stop shop for all your exercising needs. It contains hundreds and hundreds of unique workouts designed by professional fitness trainers, stat tracking of your own various fitness measurements and even allows you to monitor your physical progress. The workouts seem to be designed for any goal in mind, whether you want to target certain muscle groups, improve your sports performance or have limited access to equipment.
The workout routines themselves are easily accessed via the intuitive user interface and feature well illustrated exercises with pictures, text and video. Once a workout has been selected, you can simply swipe through the exercises one at a time. There is also a timer to keep your rest periods to a minimum.
After you have completed a workout, you can log your activities into the app’s database to track your progress over time. If you so desire you can also share your workouts via Twitter or Facebook.
Overall, I think the app is wonderfully designed and contains an amazing amount of information for the beginner to intermediate fitness enthusiast.
What I liked: I think that Fitness Builder is particularly great at supplementing an established fitness routine. Often times I find myself searching online for new exercises to target certain muscles groups. This app contains literally hundreds of illustrated exercises that have helped me add new elements into my workouts on just such occasions.
What I didn’t like: Even though Fitness Builder had a wealth of information and described many different workouts to target the areas you were wanting to focus on, I would hesitate to use this as your only source of training advice. Unless you systematically and regularly worked through every workout in the app, you may be left with a somewhat unbalanced fitness plan. I’d say if you just want some great new routines to try to incorporate into your already existing program or want a simple way to create and log your own routines, you may still find the $9.99 price justifiable.
