Runtastic Squats Trainer PRO app review: shape and strengthen your legs and glutes

Introduction

Thrusting its way into the Health & Fitness category of the App Store is this very cool iPhone and iPad app that provides a range of workouts to help you shape and strengthen your legs and glutes by working your way up to 150 consecutive squats.

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Although I haven’t personally gone through this program, I can easily tell by looking over it that it has been designed with a very reasonable amount of progression that should help a lot of you work your way towards the goal of 150 squats in a sustainable manner.

Squat Your Way to a Better Body

Runtastic Squats Trainer PRO includes a tried and tested program that requires you to work three levels with a sport science training plan to eventually complete 150 squats in a row.

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Each workout includes voice instructions to help guide you along the way, and there is also an automatic countdown timer for your breaks between sets. This ensures you know what to do every step of the way.

Share Your Workouts Online

This app also provides full integration with MyFitnessPal and the Runtastic website, enabling you to very easily upload your workouts to these services and share your progress with all of your Runtastic buddies.

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What’s more, you’ll be pleased to know that you can also share all of your workouts and progress with your friends and family online via Facebook, Twitter, and email; the perfect way to boast about your newfound strength and fitness!

Pros & Cons

Pros

• Shape and strengthen your legs and glutes with a tried and tested program
• Work through three levels with a sport science training plan to eventually complete 150 squats in a row               
• View a record of your performance over time to see how you are progressing
• Workouts include voice instructions to help guide you along the way
• Includes an automatic countdown timer for your breaks between sets
• Compare your achievements to others and see how you rank against your Runtastic friends
• Integrate your Runtastic activities with your MyFitnessPal account
• Upload your activities to the Runtastic website
• Share your progress with others online via Facebook, Twitter, and email

Cons                     

• This app has generally been very well received; however, one user has raised a couple of small but important issues: “Good app overall, except if at the end of a session I move my iPad or iPhone a little to much it records an extra squat. Which I can't manually or in any from remove. For an app I use to keep exactly track of what I do it's kind of anoying. Also you can't cancel an exercise or session without that what you've already done being recorded. For example you start an extra session and the phone rings ... I can't pause it or stop it without for example recordindeling the two squats I've already done.”

Final Words

Runtastic Squats Trainer PRO is a great way of getting your lower body into shape, so be sure to download it onto your iPhone and iPad today!