No apps or trackers for me, but I wasn't into them before I went blind, either. A professional bodybuilder named Gary Strydom once told me he watches guys scribble in their notebooks at the gym, recording every set and rep they do, but during the time they took scribbling in their notebooks he'd already done another set. That stuck with me. I try to listen to my body instead of a fitness app and let it tell me what to do each day.

I go on a very short run in the mornings with the dogs, I spend a little time on my wife's spin bike, I do a few push ups each day, and we dance on the weekends until sweat is pouring off of us for cardio. We usually walk a few miles through one of the city park trails once a week, too.

I used to do endurance swimming before I lost my driver's license but I can't figure out how to get a ride to the college pool anymore.

This probably wasn't the answer you were looking for but it's how I live my life - not quite unplugged but certainly not with an app tracking my efforts, either.

I go to a local gym; was taken through the weights and machines by staff. Luckily all the cardio stuff is consistent.

I have a fitbit that I use to log steps and heart rate.

I imagine the issues with workout apps are the same as for in person classes. A lot of people are rubbish at explaining their movements. Which you would think wouldn’t be the case - I went to a yoga class once and the teacher was great at guiding with words; which meant everyone could concentrate on their poses.

I usually just use Samsung help to track my distance walked over, I do miss the flights of stairs that iPhone does even if it was a bit misleading because living in Europe there is a lot of climbing up-and-down stairs. And it would be very gratifying to see 40 or 50 or 60 flights of stairs

I am a very regular gym goer and outran during corona places that closed gyms. I do find challenges when using the equipment. Right now the gym im using is very very old in the pins on the cable Machine are very old and get stuck and it is hard to feel for the holes but I think a sighted person would struggle as well

I also swim a lot and that of course is challenging when it comes to not being able to see depth or stairs or entry and that really does vary.

I Do save a lot of Instagram workouts and I can't see to follow. For a while I was using a gym for chronic ill people, it was really frustrating because they would get mad at me because I didn't fill out the papers every day with my blood pressure, heart rate etc and the mets from the machine, nor would I follow the instructor who was about 20 meters away from me

I spoke with the owner about this, but in the end I was basically asked to leave because I was no following their instructions and not filling out the forms and they felt that I was a safety hazard to them (not sure how a staffer yelling at me for not putting my mets into a tiny box was a safety hazard, but it certainly raised my blood pressure, and I'm making far more progress on my own)

When I can I work out with my partner as we challenge each other, he is a very different fitness level so we sometimes do challenges like the other day we did 40 push ups, me modified, him regular.

Edited because apparently Samsung speech to text was having a bad day and the original text was unreadable!

Very rarely do I use anything but my apple watch and a basic tracker, these apps are not that accessible because they are doing things visually and we are suppose to just work out with them. Their directions is also vague.

Stretch everyone, swing your arms forward.

Stretch how?


Swing your arms foarward like how?