Listener Mailbag: App reviews, overtraining after 50, and smarter strength plans
Get-Fit Guy
Macmillan Holdings, LLC
4.5 • 753 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
In this listener Q&A episode, Kevin tackles your questions on a range of topics: his take on the Jefit workout app, whether there’s ever a right time to slow down your training, and how to adapt your workouts as you age. He breaks down what “functional training” really means and explains why strength may matter more than cardio as you get older.
Get-Fit Guy is hosted by Kevin Don. A transcript is available at Simplecast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello listeners. I hope everyone's doing well this week. After last week's episode, I've received a bunch of emails, so I'll try to answer some of them this week. If you missed last week's episode, go check it out. The short of it is that there are only four more episodes where I'm going to be the host of |
| 0:22.3 | this show. For the long of it, go check out last week's episode. Okay, on to the questions. Good day. |
| 0:30.0 | Thank you for the show. My question is, can you give us your thoughts on a workout app? J-Fit. |
| 0:38.7 | Thank you. |
| 0:40.3 | Brian. |
| 0:41.2 | Hi, Brian. |
| 0:42.5 | So it's going to be really hard for me to give any really good feedback on that particular |
| 0:47.9 | app. |
| 0:48.4 | The reason being that to do so, I'd need to use the app. |
| 0:52.1 | It's mostly a paid app and it's behind a paywall. |
| 0:57.3 | So I can't really explore more really than their marketing blurb and their free side. |
| 1:04.0 | However, based on that, here are my thoughts. |
| 1:06.8 | From what I can see, it looks like a user can select a bunch of exercises from their exercise library and put them together into a workout to do. |
| 1:16.4 | I usually think that the best way to test something is to attack it. |
| 1:23.5 | And I usually attack things on the grounds of absurdity. |
| 1:27.2 | Ask my professors. I have written a bunch of |
| 1:30.3 | essays that were absolutely ridiculous. The thinking being that if I could use, let's say, a |
| 1:38.0 | particular moral theory to justify something, let's say the slave trade, that was an essay I wrote, or evil robot |
| 1:48.3 | overlords, also an essay I have written. We can say for sure that evil overlords and slave trade |
| 1:58.0 | are both wrong. But if I could justify it using a certain moral theory, |
| 2:03.3 | then I can, you know, pretty much then say that moral theory is ridiculous. So the plan here is |
| 2:10.3 | use the workout builder on that app to see if I can create the most ridiculous workout I possibly can, which makes zero sense |
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