Please add a workout rewind button

Feature Requests
#1

It’s great that I can skip forward to the next interval in a workout, but sometimes I’d like to be able to go back to the beginning of the current interval, or rewind back to previous intervals.

What’s the use case?

  • Sometimes I need a little more rest - the work part of the interval starts, but I’m not ready to go. I want to rewind back to the rest part of the interval, spin for a minute, then skip forward to the hard part.
  • I get interrupted in the middle of an interval and I want to start the interval over from the beginning.
  • The workout wasn’t hard enough and I want to repeat the last couple of intervals.
  • I hit the skip forward button too many times.

I could accomplish all of these be using the awesome merge workout feature, but then I would have to skip forward to the desired interval which is a little clunky.

Maybe a back button to the left of the forward button wouldn’t clutter up the interface, would be intuitive to use, and not much effort to implement.

Thanks for reading!

#2

I’d love this, as I have run into just about all the use cases you mentioned.

I’ve currently been re-merging the workout and then skipping through until I get where I need to be, but a rewind would help solve it

#3

Yes I wanted to add “rewind” in the beginning but I thought it was a bit complicated… more than skip forward. I agree this is a great feature. Thank you so much for the detailed explination why. I both cases are perfect.

Now that we are father a long I am less affraid of this. We are working on a new UI design for the training tab that will provide a little more room so I will try to incorporate this. I would guess it will still be a month before it is ready though. I also need to make sure it is not too hard to accomplsih. I will update here as I know more but seems possible.

#4

Just following up to see if any progress was made on this feature. I too would see value in a rewind button, precisely for the reasons @clarkras stated :+1:

#5

No progress. We opted for extend instead of rewind but I realize it does not solve the same problem (partially/slightly maybe).

One thing you can do (I do) is get creative with merge. If I have a set of 4 intervals for example and while doing it I want 6, I just go to the library and select the same workout and merge it with the current workout. Next I press next if there is a warmup until I get to the intervals again. At first this might seem complex and some workouts are not as smooth as others but generally this can become very fluid/simple. See steps below.

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