30 Day - Plank Challenge 4+

I was all on board to give this app 5 stars: does just what it says, no fooling around & ads aren’t obnoxious. Then I got to say nine of the very first beginner challenge and it jumped from 35 seconds, a rest day, to a full minute on day 9!! That’s a huge difference!

As a complete beginner and someone who hasn’t exercised regularly for a few years, adding 5 seconds every day was already challenging enough. I repeated at least one day already to prepare for the next time length. Adding on 25 seconds all at once is ridiculous!

Not giving it fewer than 3 stars because it still is decent and I can just repeat or add on myself until I feel ready, but it’s disappointing that I can’t track my days with this app until then.

Nothing fancy, but it gets you doing planks. Some of the jumps in time were a little intense, so it took me several days to finish one day on the app. Like others have said, it should have a 3 sec countdown once you press the start button to give you time to get into position. Also, I wish there was a way to go back just by single days or look ahead to the final goal (like a preview). It was a bit hard the first time not knowing what I was aiming for. In this app you only get to see the very next day and only once you’ve completed the current day. Finally I wish there was a way to record how many times you’ve completed a challenge (like a badge). I’m a beginner with a bad wrist, so I have to do the beginning level challenges more than once before I can work up to the intermediate ones. All in all, though, it does the job. The tutorials are very clear and easy to understand. I like that it has multiple levels (beginning, intermediate, advanced), adds in the dates for your challenge, and that it shows you a daily completion percentage. I did my first ever two minute plank thanks to this app, so...thank you!

But for some reason whenever I go to select a level the screen is super zoomed in and I can’t click on day 1! My friends and I were going to start doing this app and I was the only one experiencing this problem! I’m still giving it 3 stars because my friends seem to be enjoying it but I hope this problem can be fixed so I can rate it higher!