I am writing on this point because in my opinion the user should be given the possibility to choose whether or not to use the plates during the intervals in the Hybrid strength TJ.
Not being able to choose to eliminate the plates, I am forced to perform bodyweight sessions at home instead of going to the park taking advantage of these sunny days.
The strange thing is that you can also deselect this tool from the coach settings but the plates exercises are still required.
The alternative is to use the “adapt” command and mark that I do not have the equipment but in this way the pull-up bar, the wall and all the rest are also eliminated, thus limiting the training. Or you can exclude the exercises one by one but these are continually replaced with other exercises with plates.
I therefore hope that the ability to exclude plates from inteevals will be introduced to improve the flexibility of Freeletics.
Thank you so much
Gian Luca
Xiaomi mi 9 lite, MIUI global 12.5.2, Android 11, now beta app v. 22.32.0 but this bug appears also in the stable release.
I take up this topic after about a year to say that I’m approaching this Training Journey again and I’ve seen that it’s still impossible to exclude plates from my equipment.
I’m convinced it’s a serious problem because summer has begun and I want to alternate training in my home gym with training in outdoor parks where I only have the bars available.
Among other things this contrasts with the settings screen where only the pull-up bar, the barbell, the rack and the bench are indicated among the necessary equipment and all of these cannot be deselected. The plates, on the other hand, are within the all the equipment section (in Italian “tutta l’attrezzatura”) and can be deselected but this does not affect the training session.
I hope you can fix this bug.
Greetings
Gian Luca
What do you mean by “I only have the bars available”? I am assuming you mean “pullup bars” but please let me know if I’m wrong.
The plates will only be assigned as part of a weights session. So if you are training and doing the weights sessions at home you will be assigned plate exercises occasionally. However, if the equipment is not selected as an optional equipment, you won’t be assigned any plate exercises in the Bodyweight sessions (which I assume that you are completing outdoors).
Hi Ben, thanks for the reply!
Yes when I say “bars” I mean pullup bar and dip bar.
The problem is that the Coach proposes the exercises with the plates even if you eliminate them from the equipment. I am attaching to this message a screenshot of an example of training even though I have deselected the plates.
A workaround consists in eliminating the exercises with plates that are proposed but, as soon as you eliminate one, it is replaced with another.
But you’ve recently updated your settings since you posted your original question right?
That session is different from the one you had scheduled earlier.
As you’re doing Hybrid Strength, if you want pure bodyweight only sessions in your non-weight sessions, then you should deactivate your Dumbbell equipment as these will only be used in your non-weights sessions that you plan to do outside. And you won’t be assigned any plate exercises. Otherwise, use the “Adapt session” option to select “I have no equipment” when you wish to train your Bodyweight sessions outdoors-that is what the option is there for.
Yes, I reloaded the session because I made several tests with the “adapt” command and with the Coach settings.
What you see in the screenshot is a session generated after deselecting both dumbells and plates.
If I select “I have no equipment” a purely bodyweight workout is created without exercises with pullup bar, low bar, wall and pole. These are all pieces of equipment that I would like to use in outdoor parks.
I simply wish I could train with all equipment except plates.
Naturally these criticisms concern the “non weight” sessions of the Hybrid Strength Journey.
Hi Ben, any news about the bug fix? The end of my current training journey is near, and I’m thinking about the next one. It would be really helpful to know if I could exclude exercises with plates to train outside at the park.
We’re not currently treating this a bug. I know it’s not the answer you want to hear but hopefully the information helps you decide the best way forward for you.
Essentially, we are treating plates as a mandatory equipment item throughout the entire journey, regardless of whether you are doing a Weights or Bodyweight session.
I am bringing the feedback up every chance I get so I’m hopeful that at some point we may redesign this, but I can’t promise this any time soon.
Let me bring the topic up again 
