Caliber 4.2.0 - Workout Overview Screen Updates

Here's what's new in version 4.2.0 👇

UX Enhancements:

• Improved Exercise Card UX. On the Workout Overview screen, you’ll now see 3 dots to the right of each exercise card, which should more clearly surface all of the various options (Edit, Substitute, Create Superset, etc). In doing this, we also freed up the long press for…
• Rebuilt Exercise Reordering. Long pressing on any exercise will now allow you to reorder it directly, making the reordering process much faster and smoother. As part of this, we’re also now collapsing supersets when you reorder them, making them more maneuverable. Finally, you can now reorder exercises within a superset directly on this screen.
• Workout Instructions Revamp. Previously the workout instructions were kind of hidden on this screen, and not very easy to read. With this update, they now have their own section as part of the top nav, making them a more prominent part of the experience.

New Features:

• Added Notes Section. For the longest time, we’ve had people asking about the workout ratings at the end of each workout. The backstory with this one is that we had initially built it for coaching clients to share feedback with their coaches, while also allowing them to share an optional note as well. When we first released the coachless version of the app, we had thought to remove these ratings, but since people liked seeing them we kept it. Anyway, with this release, you’ll now see all of your historical ratings for each workout directly in this section, making it very easy to scroll through and review how previous sessions went.
• Leave Workout Notes. Previously only coaching clients were able to leave notes for workouts, whereas now all users - including both free and Plus - can leave an optional workout note. This means that you can jot down a short note about how the workout felt, including any broad points you’d like to easily remember, which you can then reference at any time in the Notes section when you do that workout again. Both ratings and notes are directly editable in this section as well, if you need to make adjustments.
• Custom Workout Instructions. You can now add your own instructions to workouts that you create. You can do this directly from an active workout, or from a workout template in the Plans section. These instructions will be included as part of any workouts that you share too.

Performance / Infrastructure:

• Rebuilt Bottom Navigation. To accommodate for this release, along with future updates that we’re planning, we rebuilt how the bottom nav works. You likely won’t notice any major differences here, but you should find that there are fewer obvious transitions between some of the screens, especially when you are navigating back to an active workout from other parts of the app.

As Chris mentioned in a comment last week, we are excited to be getting back into feature work again, after some less exciting but necessary updates on the app infrastructure side.

In the spirit of this, after thinking about it more, we are going to be accelerating the release of dark mode - probably our most requested feature at this point. Initially this work was planned in conjunction with some design standardization work that we are doing separately, but we’ve decided to decouple it from that project and get it done sooner. We are actively working on the designs for this now, and will likely be rolling it out in chunks, focusing on the highest impact sections of the app first. If everyone likes it, then it could very well become the new default option for new users.

Hope that you enjoy the latest updates, and please just let us know if you have any questions as you’re using them!