Gym Coach - Barbell Plate Loading Calculator app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Nathaniel Fife
First release : 02 Dec 2011
App size: 1.65 Mb
Take the math out of your workouts. Stop losing your focus as you add up the weights on the barbell. Now you can tell Gym Coach the weight you want to lift, and Gym Coach figures out the weights you need to put on the barbell based on what weights are available at your gym. Gym Coach can store the barbells, weight plates, and collars from multiple gyms, and can even handle both pounds and kilograms.
- Stores plate and barbell inventory you enter for multiple gyms.
- Handles all pounds and kilogram conversions.
- Gets the weight using the least number of plates.
- If it isnt possible to get the weight, finds the next best lower weight that is possible.
** FREE BONUS **
Integrates seamlessly with the FREE app, "Workout Coach", and other "Fitness Coach Apps". Check them out on the Related Apps tab or More Apps by Nathaniel Fife.
Latest reviews of Gym Coach - Barbell Plate Loading Calculator app for iPhone and iPad
tested it out for a 100kg lift using a 20kg bar but it gave me the wrong information. should say 2 20kg plates per side but instead it gave me a complicated setup which totaled less than 100kg.
This would be a 5 star review except the app looks like it is an iOS 4 app and has crashed on me a couple of times. Unlike other apps I have tried, this app lets me use all my weights: 1.25, 2.5, 5, 6, 10, 25, 50, and 75. It is also smart enough to use my spinlock collars to achieve specific weights by suggesting, for example, that I use five collars on each side to add a pound. I wish it would let me label collars: I have black spinlock collars that weigh less than my chrome finished collars. It tells me which collars to use by weight but its hard to tell from memory if it is telling me to use the light collars or the slightly heavier collars. It displays my 1.25 lb weights as 1.2 lb weights so I dont know if it is really doing the math right but truncating the value just in the display.
Im doing the MadCow 5x5 program which has me using a lot of very specific barbell loading. For example, 248 pounds. This app saves me a lot of time and I know instantly that I need two 45s, one 10 and one 1.25 plates on each side. Simple and effective!