CoachMePlus 4+

My coworkers and I have been using the CoachMePlus app for years to write workouts for athletes. Although the app does work for what we intend to use it for, we have experienced several inconveniences.

The app always seems to be slow and buggy regardless of whether the athletes are using wifi or cellular data. We have also had problems with the software itself, the start date for our programs (oftentimes for large groups of athletes) never seems to match up with when we actually want the athletes to start. There also seem to be glitches which modify the workouts we write without us actually changing them.

Overall, the app is coach- and user-friendly, but work is needed to improve the functionality. I also must add that the customer service has been good whenever we need it.

My college volleyball team switched from using TeamBuildr to using CoachMePlus and every day since I’ve wished we could switch back. I hold my breath every time I open the app hoping that I can get in and see my workouts, but on multiple occasions the app has crashed which doesn’t allow me to log in. Same thing happens for all of my teammates and we have to contact our strength coaches directly for our workout. Then we can’t record the weight we lift either since the app is broken. Defeats the whole purpose of even having CoachMePlus. When the app does work, it’s not super user friendly. A loading screen pops up extremely frequently when navigating the app, giving it a clunky feel. It can be difficult to maneuver due to the way the app is set up which forces me to spend a lot of time on my phone while working out just to find a basic piece of information. It’s not very visually appealing either. Anyways, every day I use this app it’s a gamble and not in a fun way.

It’s pretty good. When you’re in the gym it’s really annoying to have the login randomly boot you out and have to resort to a browser window. Also not clear between when you are on screen to log a warm up set or a working set, you just kind of have to know. The nutrition logger is cool because you can barcode scan if you can’t find it, but it doesn’t give you a real breakdown beyond macros so if you’re looking at fiber totals or something similar you’re out of luck. I use another app to track macros. I like the video feature and timer, but wish the dashboard in the app showed progress charts by lift in addition to just volume and tonnage.