This feature should definitely be optional. It's never accurate for what we program, and clients regularly ask why they seem to be taking double the time as the estimates are so short. Can't even count the times I've needed to explain the issue.

Removal/optional or even better allowing the coach to create their own time expectancy would be beneficial for all of us. The clients won't be frustrated, the coaches feel accurate, and your team at Trainerize has a bunch of happy customers! Thank you.

I agree, if there is any update on this being changed that would be great as the estimated time is always far to short. If it's a time based workout it's accurate however, when you enter reps it doesn't take this into account so clients are always messaging saying the estimated time is off, it's extremely frustrating.

Completely agree with all the comments!!

I get customer service questions on this daily and the est duration is never accurate. It would be extremely helpful if it was not on there.

Agreed! Such a simple thing to add / remove as an option. Come on Trainerize! Fix it!!

How the f* does this not have any interaction from the dev team???

Option to edit/remove would be great.

instead of removing it you should be able to inout your own time, because its not accurate. we are not robots

Couldn't agree more, this one gets my clients anxiety up, unneccesarily!

I agree that estimated times are inaccurate. Perhaps they could also correct this inaccuracy, in addition to making it optional to show.

Make it editable.

Agree that the approximate time is not really necessary… I often give my new or returning clients a slow tempo to start out, so the time is really irrelevant. I do really like that it shows what exercise equipment is necessary. Great app!

Yes, please do remove it or make it optional.

I use Trainerize because it lets me put in my own custom workout videos. These do not work with the estimated workout times. My hour long workouts say they are 15 minutes. It's great if it works for you, but a huge frustrating deal for our clients if it doesn't. Clients see the estimated time and plan their workouts around it, and get frustrated that they set aside the wrong amount of time for a workout and then had to stop part of the way through.

Let us estimate our own workout length as an option, or at the very least turn it off.

Or if possible, it would be great if we could manually override how long we think each exercise will take when we are programming as coaches.

I find this works fairly well in practice.

It does underestimate bit (like 10%-15% in my experience) and I attribute this to (1) some fixed number that is counted per rep (and therefore not always accurate depending on exercise and form)… and (2) to the downtime experienced when going from machine to machine (and sometimes having to wait for a previous person using a machine to finish up).

It would be trivial for Trainerize to instead overestimate each rep, assuming that a rep for any exercise is going to consume 7-10 seconds (about as long as the slowest *normal* rep I encounter). Then, account for an extra 90 seconds to travel between exercises; plus, add an extra 5 minutes per every 30 minutes estimated, to account for things like waiting longer than exported for a station to free up, going from one floor to another floor, using the bathroom, getting momentarily distracted, etc.

That would result in a very accurate prediction most of the time, and generally come out on the high side. Clients would greatly appreciate knowing they came in under the estimated time most of the time!

• As well, it means any client coming in over the estimated time is almost surely taking too long between sets or chatting/texting too much.

• As well, it allows us, as trainers, to ensure we are not overtraining our clients by assigning too many sets or reps… which is a possible oversight sometimes even with the best of intentions. It absolutely helps to have an AI provide feedback on how long a workout SHOULD take AT MOST.

I agree as well. I've had several clients message me inquiring about if "I" put the estimated workout time and where it came from. This should be a user feature not calculated by the app.

I've found that any workout created prior to the calculation feature was added, the time is off. If I go in and "edit" the workout, it automatically corrects the time. With several programs and hundreds of workouts, this correction takes a lot of time.

Completely agreed -- having this as an optional setting would be ideal in my opinion.

Yes! Worst feature ever it’s never correct.

The Trainerize system auto-calculates Workout time estimates, I would like the ability to manually modify the time to better match the workout I have created.