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[scramblur]

I am having a save issue...

I do section 1 of 12 of the "Personal Training" - "Arms and Shoulders", it tells me it was completed and I have the option of finish or play session again. I select finish, goto a differenent Personal Training - "Sculpting" workout and when I return to arms and shoulders, it restarts me from the begining.

However, when I go back to Sculpting, it starts where I last left off.

Why isn't it saving my progress with the arms and shoulders?

[Alnark]

I believe you are resetting your training sessions every time you switch. Any sessions you do in personal training, and then decide to do a different personal training session, it will not save your progress on the first session. It basically starts you over.

If you don't re-do the arms and shoulder session, I believe your game is just remembering the last actual training session you did, which would have been sculpting.

I think if you did the A&S, then Sculpting, then A&S again, you would see that the Sculpting is gone (like the A&S was) and it now thinks you are doing the 12 sessions of arms and shoulders.

This is a known "bug" or issue with this game that really needs fixed as many of us want a varied workout throughout the week.

[CliffS2]

It is all a matter of perception. There is no "progression" to the named workouts. There is merely a counter to indicate the number of days that you stuck to (i.e., limited yourself to) a particular workout. This is one of the worst "features" of YSFE, that has lead a lot of people to get less than they could out of the game. Just look at the wording Alnark used:

"This is a known "bug" or issue with this game that really needs fixed as many of us want a varied workout throughout the week."

Nothing stops you from varying the sessions during a day, or day by day. But because of this fiction generated by the "12 day program" some people end up using the game less than they would otherwise. You are better off ignoring the 12-day "feature" and just doing the sessions that appeal to you. There is nothing to these sessions beyond that message pasted on the screen. There is no difference day to day. There is no reward in the form of unlocks or anything else at the end of 12 days.

[Alnark]

Couldn't have said it better myself.

All they need to do is get rid of the training session 12 day method, and let us create our own, varied training program to mix up as much as we want.

[AuntieParticle]

Originally posted by Alnark:
All they need to do is get rid of the training session 12 day method, and let us create our own, varied training program to mix up as much as we want.

I'm not so sure about that. While I completely agree with CliffS2 in his assessment of how YSFE is best used in it's current state I don't think getting rid of the 12 sessions completely is the answer; because I think with repetition comes improvement in the various areas of exercise and I believe that was what the designers had in mine. I do, however, feel that being able to do more than one 12 session program congruently would be a better solution. I don't look at this problem as a bug in programing, but rather as a design mistake.

[xxHanoverxx]

They should have named the personal training section, "Workout Programs."

Each program has a specific number of days/workouts within them. Sounds like you're expected to pick one program and stick to it through the end and NOT change it up. Like in real life, some programs are more varied than others.

For example, in real life, P90X is a program that expects you to workout according to a schedule. Most people in real life, get P90X and devote all their workouts to that one program until they are finished.

I think YSFE is trying to simulate that sort of idea.

Its just they word everything wrong. They seem to invite you to change your program with words like, "Try something different" as if you could just jump back into the program you were doing if what you "Tried" wasn't to your liking...instead you lose all your progress for the program you moved from.

And you know...if they actually gave us documentation that told us how they expected to use their software, along with a better organized user interface, we might not have had these problems.

[shastar75]

I would appreciate a fix to the "design" or program as a free update. It is better than to continue selling it like it is to millions of people.

[dejannk71]

I am getting this issue too. This is really annoying. I want to be able to vary programs and the thing should remember which sessions I've completed. Also, there is no way to select session manually!? Surely it should be able to keep track of multiple programs as I do them in parallel. This is such a normal gym routine, you do weights, then you do cardio. It makes no sense to just do cardio until you collapse...