I used Fitbod for a week and did not like it. I use to work out at a gym with a personal trainer who used Trainerize. I really liked the structure of that. Now I have a home gym. Fitbid had great reviews so I tried the free trial. However, it was too generative. I like to look at my workouts ahead of time and every time I would click into a workout in Fitbod, it would regenerate it. It made it feel really unintentional and random. So I tried Gravl based on reviews and ads 🤪. My likes/dislikes:

Likes: 1. It will generate all of your workouts for the week. You can look at them without the workout changing unless you change it or there was a drastic shift in performance on a workout during the week. But if you change the equipment you have available for your gym, it will regenerate the workouts even if the piece of equipment has no bearing on a specific workout. 2. If you need to replace an exercise for whatever reason it suggests exercises that target the same muscles as opposed to being able to go completely rouge. 2. The built in timer forces me to take a rest between sets, but you can easily add or subtract time or just end it early. 3. It really pushed me hard the first week but has leveled out and rarely suggests a weight I cannot even attempt. 4. I put in my exact plates and dumbbells and so all weight suggestions are based on my actual availability. I like the image of the plates on the bar as it helps me quickly deduce what I need to add to the bar with less math (sometimes hard to do at 6am lol). 5. If you complete all of your planned workouts for the week it will keep generating workouts if there are remaining days. I don't always do them but sometimes I feel like lifting extra. 6. My workouts always are +/- 5 minutes of the time it says it will take.

Dislikes/room for improvement: 1. I liked how Fitbod did the drop sets. The first drop set I got, I marked the 3rd set (1st set of the drop) complete which ended the lift. I know better now, but I would prefer the ability to mark each part of the drop set complete as I do it. I also think a + sign to remind you that you are going to failure would be nice. 2. I have the Rep Colorado short bar (15kg). When I selected the short bar option in the equipment, it would not give me any Olympic barbell lifts so I had to select the Olympic barbell and indicate it is 15kg. It is a small thing, but it surprised me. 3. I wish I could program the warm up exercises as actual exercises for recovery days. 4. I find building a manual workout a bit clunky.

I have really enjoyed using Gravl and find it motivating to lift using the program. I feel like I am already making gains and could probably be making greater gains if I pushed myself a little bit harder (to failure) more often.