Strength by Mari 4+

Simple & User Friendly

First off I want to say that I’ve bought every guide Mari has released, from her home guides, to her gym guides, and even her resolution guides. I love them all. My main problem with all of those is that downloading it on my phone and using it was a pain. So, I’d sacrifice keeping track of my progress on it for the convenience of not having to fiddle with adding text via what ever program I was using. This app is a GAME CHANGER for me. I can add how much weight I’m using, how many reps I did, and I can even put an exercise note. Then I can scroll through the history of that workout when I get to it again. I haven’t had any problems with “glitchy” videos, and slow load times. Every time I open the app it’s ready to go.

I love that it doesn’t start out telling you how much weight you should use, so I use a weight that’s comfortable and challenging enough for me, and I can input that in the app too. It makes it more user friendly for me and doesn’t discourage me when it says to use a specific size weight and I can’t comfortably use that weight.

Overall I love the app, and recommend it to anyone who loves gym guides or home guides but loves the flexibility to personalize them too.

I love the content but several glitches

I have been following Mari forever, purchased original digital guides, and was so excited about the app. The original app was great but so glad it was updated with more workouts and the ability to swap exercises. My only issue is that it’s fairly glitchy. Every time I load the app I get a flash of a welcome message but it never plays in full just goes away. Also I’ve been noticing more frequently that I’m having to select “track” several times before it will recognize that an exercise was complete. I’ve also had days that every exercise is marked completed, workout complete selected but the day itself is not tracked as complete on the ‘Full Plan’ view with a check mark. Also, occasionally when you switch some exercises it doesn’t update reps. For example I switched out 10min cardio for leg press and it showed leg press for 10min instead of reps/weight. I do make sure it stays updated and completely refresh it to see if that helps but it typically does not. I’m sure these are just growing pains since the big update, but I wanted to give the feedback. The glitches can make it frustrating to use and accurately track workouts.

Developer Response ,

Hey there, thank you for your feedback. We are happy to hear that you like the content in the app! We’re sorry that you’ve run into some technical issues using the app. Please contact our support team so that we can try and resolve them for you.https://slayapp.zendesk.com/hc/en-gb/requests/new

Glad I got it

This is a good app. I definitely stuck to my workout more and stayed the most consistent I’ve ever been. I like the nutrition section which is so helpful. My top pros are: easy to use, love tracking my weight(I actually push myself to go heavier based on my last tracked weight), LOVE that you can switch out the individual workouts for others (probably my favorite feature). My top cons: there is not a celebration/completion which is a bummer(I completed my first guide and ended up starting to repeat the last week and didn’t notice (said 106% complete 33/32 workouts), i wish there was an option to add your own workout as sometimes it would let you swap out a tricep workout for a bicep instead of other tricep workouts, and it was glitchy for me (would have to close the app entirely if I wanted to go back a screen or if I accidentally clicked end workout). My biggest complaint would be how do I follow the Pilates workout without a voiceover? You have to literally watch the instructors every move which is hard to do when I’m trying to do the movements. That was a bummer as I would like the variety in workout. Overall I enjoyed the app but had somethings that could be major improvements.