Web/Mobile App Critique

A mobile app that I am fairly familiar with and will be focusing on is “JEFIT”. JEFIT is known as a weight-lifting routine tracker, but it can do so much more than that. With JEFIT you can search for workout routines that may fit within your fitness goals, you can create custom routines to fit your individual needs, there are 1300+ exercises stored in the database, provides motivation by letting you know when you have hit a new personal record, have detailed instructions of every exercise within its exercise database, and there’s the availability of sharing your completed workouts with friends to hold each other accountable and keep the motivation high. The mobile app can do that and so much more. The overall usability and design of the mobile app is great. Very simple to navigate through, account setup, maintaining info, and uploading progress photo’s (if you choose to). Once you setup your account it's really easy to navigate your way through the app. 

In the screenshot above you see all of the 1300+ exercises that the app has stored in it's database. You can view them based on the actual part of the body that will be used during the workout or you are able to see every exercise. This is how you would put your own routine together or there are plenty of routines that you can choose from. The screenshot below is an example of the routines that can be chosen.

Now although this is a great app to use there are a few things that I feel may make the app better. First being that I think that a web app should be created for this app. I understand that most people do most things from there smartphones, however in order to change the repetition range for the exercises you need to change it on every exercise, for every single day. It's very time consuming and tough to do on a smartphone. Coincidentally, that is also another recommendation that I have for the app. Maybe preset repetition ranges based on your goals. For example, if you wanted to gain weight your rep range may be between 6-8 reps lifting heavy weights. If you wanted to lose weight your rep range my be between 15-20 reps lighting light weights.




As you can see in the above screenshot you can track your body stats. Progress on body parts based on the goals you have set for yourself. That's great if you are truly into measuring all those body stats. One thing that I think could set this app over the edge is if they incorporate a calorie tracker or some sort of food tracker. In my opinion that would make this app a one stop shop. Instead of having multiple apps for trackers.

So that is my review of the mobile app called "JEFIT". Overall a good app for tracking workout routines (whether created or found within the app) but in my opinion can potentially be better with the small recommendations that I made suggested.