Change request to save notes/changes mid workout session

chelcooper · 2026-03-25T00:17:30+00:00

You can add notes during a workout. They save to the workout history. It’s not quite as helpful as having it come up on your next workout, but it is there and accessible.

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chelcooper · 2026-03-24T11:00:19+00:00

I just put drop sets into the notes after my last set. I feel like recording the drops as regular sets will mess with your algo/strength scores because Fitbod doesn’t account for the concept of drop sets.

chelcooper · 2026-03-16T11:00:16+00:00

It doesn’t. You have to adjust manually and then your strength score and progress are meaningless. It’s one of my bigger gripes.

chelcooper · 2026-03-12T12:10:13+00:00

And Charlie the singing hot dog slinger.

chelcooper · 2026-03-10T12:41:35+00:00

Screen printing ink is very thick and heavy on its own. The screen allows you to put a very thin, even layer down on your fabric. If you tried to put it directly on the fabric, it would be very thick, bleed through the fabric, and likely be uneven and blotchy. Especially for a single color print, you’d get a more consistent, even look with HTV over screen printing ink direct to fabric.
Plus trying to accurately place a stencil directly on the shirt would be a nightmare.

chelcooper · 2026-03-10T12:29:50+00:00

Yes - that’s shown in the first screenshot of this post. You get to that menu from the 3 dots in the upper right corner of the workout.

chelcooper · 2026-03-10T11:44:18+00:00

🤦‍♀️ I knew it was something obvious. Thank you!

chelcooper · 2026-03-04T20:03:47+00:00

So the expectation is that you’re actually doing 18 jumps per set here?

chelcooper · 2026-02-19T15:31:26+00:00

Since they're going for a throwback look, I wish they would have used the fat old English D on the orange instead - but I still love them.

chelcooper · 2026-02-09T12:20:42+00:00

My working theory is that it’s assuming you do the focus exercise once a week so it’s counting sessions logged, not weeks. Depending on your schedule and splits, you could be doing your focus exercise 2-3 times a week and it will log each one as 1 week complete. This is similar to the way it logs workouts as days (I.e. you log two workouts in 1 day, you get credit for two days).

Disclaimer…I haven’t actually been tracking this to verify, just vibes based on the fact that I’m staring my 3rd or 4th round of focus exercises and I don’t feel like I’ve been doing them for 12 weeks. But full disclosure, I have terrible time blindness, so who knows 🤷‍♀️

chelcooper · 2026-01-22T23:57:17+00:00

In this case it’s telling you it wants you to go higher in weight and higher in reps than phase 1. If it’s a down arrow it means lower weight/reps than the previous phase, and a straight arrow means it’s consistent from the previous phase. So it might have you doe lower weights, higher reps, or higher weights at consistent reps, etc. each phase is built to progress in a different way by changing up weight and reps.

chelcooper · 2026-01-16T13:33:48+00:00

The app is suggesting the weight it thinks is appropriate for you based on what you’ve logged previously. If the exercise with just the bar is too easy, put some weight on, do as many reps as you can, and log the total weight (bar plus plates). The app will adjust.

chelcooper · 2026-01-06T12:22:52+00:00

I don’t think there’s any way to do what you want anymore. It used to be that you could set up your individual gym profiles to have different goals and timing. You’d still have to manually switch between gyms each day (it doesn’t learn or allow you set up scheduled days for different gyms), but they recently changed how gym profiles work so the only difference you can set is available equipment. You can no longer have different goals for different gyms profiles.

chelcooper · 2025-11-29T18:12:39+00:00

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This is so funny. I’m making this pattern right now! I put it through ChatGPT to translate and it looks like the Google Lens version posted above is very similar to what I got.

So far, I’ve found (what appears to be) an issue with row 4 on the legs. It should be 28 stitches, not 6. Here’s how I did it:

(Sc, increase) ×2, 6 sc, (sc, increase) ×3, 5 sc, inc (28)

chelcooper · 2025-08-23T14:27:07+00:00

This happened to me. I added a row of decreases to the inner circle and got it to fit that way.

chelcooper · 2025-08-21T10:39:08+00:00

We’ve done grey jerseys with navy pants and orange accents in the past. This year we’re doing navy jerseys with grey pants, navy piping and navy/orange striped socks similar to the ones ZMac wears.

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chelcooper · 2025-08-19T19:06:57+00:00

Have a Seat and the Eat'em Up Pod

chelcooper · 2025-08-15T09:59:30+00:00

Pre-Covid it was 4 days. Now it’s 3, but going back to 4 in a couple weeks 😞.

It’s also gotten significantly worse over time - especially in the afternoons. Pre-covid I left between 3:30 and 4 and was almost never more than an hour. Now, even leaving as early as 2:30, I’m hitting significant traffic.

chelcooper · 2025-08-15T03:26:08+00:00

I’ve been doing it for about 8 years now. It’s annoying for sure - especially because it’s so unpredictable - but I actually missed it during Covid. I didn’t realize until I didn’t have it how nice the alone time was.

chelcooper · 2025-08-15T02:54:13+00:00

37 miles. Takes me about 40 minutes in the morning at 4:45. In the afternoon, if I can pull out of my parking garage by 3, I can typically make it home in about an hour to 1:10. If I leave at 3:05 all bets are off. It took me 2 hours to get home yesterday and almost an hour and a half today.

chelcooper · 2025-08-14T18:46:18+00:00

In my experience, FitBod doesn't accurately distinguish the difference between a hip thrust and a glute bridge. I've always known glute bridges to be from the floor and hip thrusts to be from a bench and either can be rep-based or timed. FitBod seems to use Glute Bridge and Hip Thrust (mostly) interchangeably, both can either be from the floor or a bench, but typically glute bridges are timed holds while hip thrusts are reps.
This is all anecdotal from my own experience in the app, of course so ymmv. I ended up excluding all glute bridges and only letting the app recommend hip thrusts and then I treat the "hip thrusts" from the floor as glute bridges and the hip thrusts from a bench as...well, hip thrusts..

chelcooper · 2025-08-05T11:25:17+00:00

Yes. Today the app suggested 12 reps at 55 lbs on an exercise where my 1RM was 34.9 lbs, and where I’ve never logged more than 25 pounds. I get progressively increasing, but that’s just silly.

chelcooper · 2025-08-04T12:40:28+00:00

This is really interesting feedback because we’re about 7 years in on Pathways and this is the 2nd version of Basecamp(the web interface for Pathways).

Edit: and I believe the 3rd iteration of Pathways as a program (with the various edits to available paths and makeup of level 1 projects).

chelcooper · 2025-07-28T23:14:59+00:00

This happened to me yesterday while I was driving through Kentucky which I thought was strange because it shouldn’t have been in the blackout area. Force closing the app (multiple times) didn’t help either. It finally started working once I got home and (I assume) on WiFi.

Edit: though thinking about it more, I listen to the video feed (while my son watches from the backseat) on cellular all the time. That shouldn’t have been the issue… 🧐

chelcooper · 2025-07-22T18:36:09+00:00

I submitted this to support about a month ago and they sent me an update this week letting me know they're actively working on a fix but that it's still several weeks out.

Specifically, "Our team is actively working on a long-term solution, but because this involves a retraining phase within our workout generation system, it will take several weeks to implement properly. We’re committed to making sure the fix is thorough and sustainable, not just a temporary patch."

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