iBodybuilding Pro app review: helping you stay in shape

Introduction

iBodybuilding Pro by Fitness Your Body acts as a personal trainer that you can take with you anywhere you go. You will find a variety of pre-set set plans for fitness, bodybuilding, and powerlifting workouts. The app was updated on July 4, 2013 and is available in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, and Traditional Chinese.

User Experience

Launch this app and instantly you will find yourself immersed into a user-friendly interface that clearly lays out all the workouts. The exercises have been grouped into muscle categories so navigation is simple and quick, allowing you to find workouts that target your desired body part.

Features

This app provides workouts that come complete with pre-set plans for either two, three, or four days a week. There is also the exercise section that includes important and relevant workouts. And lastly there is the ability to customize your workouts and add ones in.

All in all you'll find more than 80 exercises complete with video to help you out with your workout. Each exercise features a picture and easy-to-follow text instructions. The exercise database is always expanding and updating, providing you with plenty of options.

The major muscle groups the exercises have been categorized into are abdominals, back, biceps, calf, chest, forearms, legs, shoulders, and triceps. When it comes to the pre-set plans you can find ones meant for powerlifting, fitness, and bodybuilding. If you'd rather create your own customized plan you can add in the exercises, create a workout, sort your workouts, and set your workout plan by days.

In-App Purchases

There are no in-app purchases.

Update Info

Version 3.0 features new professional exercises for powerlifting, fitness, and bodybuilding. There is now video support for each of the exercises, a few small design changes, the ability to download videos in the background, and the ability to download videos one at a time or all at once.

Customer Ratings and Feedback Comments

The current version of the app has seven customer ratings with an average rating of five out of five stars. Users are not only happy with the app and its database of exercises, but are impressed with the most recent updates and changes in the current version.

Personal Comments by Reviewer

What struck me immediately is just how simple and well laid-out the app is. It is very uncluttered and minimalistic in looks but this really works to the app’s advantage. You can focus on the content instead.

I liked that the exercises were divided into muscle groups so I could quickly find exercises that target my problem and concern areas.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Features a large database of exercises
• Offers pre-set workouts
• Offers the ability to customize your own exercises and workouts
• Simple user interface
• Video support of all exercises

Cons

• While the database of exercises is good it’s certainly not massive
• This isn’t one of those polished and sleek-looking apps; it’s basic in its offerings and features
   

For: iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), iPod touch (5th generation), and iPad with iOS 5.0 or later. iBodybuilding Pro is optimized for iPhone 5.