Work out to your music.
For screenshots for your device, take a look at the screenshots on the AppStore.
When you open
MC-Timer for the first time, it will display
this information message, asking you to create a new session.
When you
create your first session, MC-Timer will ask
you for permission to access your music library (not shown here).
Shows the overview screen with an existing
session.
A short description outlines the session details:
Altogether, this session will take 24 minutes and 30 seconds (since the
final 15 seconds are skipped).
The session uses a playlist as well as 6
hand-picked songs. An animation shows a selection of the cover artworks.
The playback controls at the bottom allow you to play this session
directly. To expand the playback screen, you can swipe it up.
This is the expanded playback screen where you can
see your progress within the current music step
(inner green ring) and your progress
within the entire session (outer red ring). Right now, there are 36
seconds left with music (counting down). Next will be 15 seconds without music.
At the top
you can see a session countdown timer on the left and a music step countdown on
the right. Both of these can be changed to count up instead of down by tapping
them. The arrow pointing down indicates that the music step count is configured
to count down.
The circular arrow controls allow you to skip or repeat
a step. For this step, MC-Timer suggests an exercise and also shows a hint om
which exercise will be next. The fast-forward and backwards controls allow you
to skip or repeat a song.
This is the expanded playback screen shown about 7 minutes later.
There are now only 15 minutes and 58 seconds remaining in this session, and
there are still 16 music steps remaining (including the currently playing
one).
13 more seconds and you have finished your set!
To pause,
you can press one of the two pause buttons; the left one in the circle will
pause the workout but not the music, whereas the larger pause button on the
right will pause both.
(See also the MC-Timer page for a web-simulation of the
progress rings).
To edit a
session, you open this detail screen. Here you can change its name and mark it
as a favourite by selecting the heart-styled Like button. You can navigate to
supplementary screens to edit the music playlist and the playback options.
Next you can select sound effects that are played at the beginning or end
of a music step. In this example, we play a random animal sound at the end of
each music step.
You can also select an additional finish sound that is
played at the very end of this session.
Scroll down in this screen to
edit the sets (next screen).
This session has three sets, consisting of:
Note that
during playback, when you reach set 2, you will have 15 seconds of pause
followed by 45 seconds of pause. MC-Timer will
combine these into one 60-second-long pause.
At the very end, you may
think that there would be a final 15 seconds of pause, but that is not what you
get. MC-Timer will always finish the workout
at end of the last music set.
In total, this session defines 47 steps,
of with 24 are with music, and 23 are not.
To use music with your workouts, you need to enable Play Music. The Shuffle Songs option is, well, optional. Next, you can:
or any combination of these.
(*) Requires a
subscription to be able to play songs from Apple Music. You can sign up from
within MC-Timer.
You can enable Shuffle Songs to play the
songs in a random order, and you can enable Skip To Next Song to play a
new song for every music step. There is also an option to Shuffle Exercise
Suggestions.
Skip to Track Middle can be enabled when
Skip to Next Song is turned on. With this option enabled, a random
section from the middle of each song will be played (i.e. skipping any
slow intros).
When your session details contain music steps that are
very long, i.e. longer than the typical duration of a song, then it may
not be possible to play just the middle section of a song. When Try to Avoid
Short Songs is on, then MC-Timer will
filter your playlist to play only songs that are long enough. However, in case
none of your songs are long enough, then no filtering is used and you will hear
multiple songs per music step (and potentially a short pause in-between).
This screen shows the sounds that you
can play at the beginning or end of a music step, or at the finish of the
session.
You can choose from playing a single beep or five-seconds
countdown beeps as well as:
If you want to be given exercise suggestions
during your workout, then you can define the names of the exercises here.
You can define the order or have the list shuffled.
Optionally, you
can define exercise pairs which will be expanded into two consecutive
exercises. For instance the entry "Lunges, left/right" will be split into two
exercises: "Lunges, left" and "Lunges, right".
For screenshots for your device, take a look at the screenshots on the AppStore.
When you open
MC-Timer for the first time, it will display
this information message, asking you to create a new session.
When you
create your first session, MC-Timer will ask
you for permission to access your music library (not shown here).
Shows the workout drawer with two existing sessions. The abbreviated session
descriptions are the same as described above for iPad.
The playback
screen is shown in the background. If it were not visible, press the "Show
Playback View" button to bring it back.
This is the expanded playback screen where you can see your progress within the current music step (inner green
ring) and your progress within the entire
session (outer red ring). Right now, there are 36 seconds left with
music (counting down). Next will be 15 seconds
without music.
At the top you can see a session countdown timer
on the left and a music step countdown on the right. Both of these can be
changed to count up instead of down by tapping them. The arrow pointing down
indicates that the music step count is configured to count down.
The
circular arrow controls allow you to skip or repeat a step. For this step,
MC-Timer suggests an exercise and also shows a hind on which exercise will be
next. The fast-forward and backwards controls allow you to skip or repeat a
song.
This is the expanded playback screen shown about 7
minutes later.
There are now only 15 minutes and 58 seconds remaining
in this session, and there are still 16 music steps remaining (including the
currently playing one).
13 more seconds and you have finished your
set!
To pause, you can press one of the two pause buttons; the left one
in the circle will pause the workout but not the music, whereas the larger
pause button on the right will pause both.
(See also the MC-Timer page for a
web-simulation of the progress rings).
To
edit a session, you open this detail screen. Here you can change its name and
you can navigate to supplementary screens to edit the music playlist and the
playback options.
Next you can select sound effects that are played at
the beginning or end of a music step. In this example, we play a random animal
sound at the end of each music step.
You can also select an additional
finish sound that is played at the very end of this session.
This session has three sets, consisting of:
Note that during playback,
when you reach set 2, you will have 15 seconds of pause followed by 45 seconds
of pause. MC-Timer will combine these into one
60-second-long pause.
At the very end, there would be a final 15
seconds of pause, except that MC-Timer will
always ignore the very last pause. The session will therefore end after the
last 45 seconds of music.
To select which music to play, you can:
or any combination of these.
(*) Requires a
subscription to be able to play songs from Apple Music. You can sign up from
within MC-Timer.
You can enable Shuffle Songs to play the
songs in a random order, and you can enable Skip To Next Song to play a
new song for every music step.
Skip to Track Middle can be
enabled when Skip to Next Song is turned on. This session will play a
(e.g. 45 second-long) section from the middle of each song, i.e.
skipping the intros.
When your session details contain music steps that
are very long, i.e. longer than the typical duration of a song, then it
may not be possible to play just the middle section of a song. When Try to
Avoid Short Songs is on, then MC-Timer
will filter your playlist to play only songs that are long enough. However, if
no songs are long enough, then no filtering is used and you will hear multiple
songs per music step (and potentially a short pause in-between).
This screen shows the sounds that you
can play at the beginning or end of a music step, or at the finish of the
session.
You can choose from playing a single beep or five countdown
beeps as well as:
Here you can define the names of the exercises
that should be shown on the screen during playback.
You can define the
order or have the list shuffled.
Optionally, you can define exercise
pairs which will be expanded into two exercises. For instance the entry
"Lunges, left/right" will be split into two exercises: "Lunges, left" and
"Lunges, right".
When you open MC-Timer on Apple TV, it may display this information message, asking you to sync your sessions via iCloud.
Once synchronized, your sessions are listed
here.
Select the one that you want to use.
This is the playback screen where you can see your
progress within the current music step (inner
green ring) and your progress within the
entire session (outer red ring). Right now, there are 36 seconds left
with music (counting down). Next will be 15
seconds without music.
At the top you can see a session
countdown timer on the left and a music step countdown on the right. Both of
these can be changed to count up instead of down by selecting them using the
remote. The arrow pointing down indicates that the music step count is
configured to count down.
The circular arrow controls allow you to skip
or repeat a step. For this step, MC-Timer suggests to do "Jumping Jacks". The
fast-forward and backwards controls allow you to skip or repeat a song.
This is the playback screen shown about 7 minutes
later.
There are now only 15 minutes and 58 seconds remaining in this
session, and there are still 16 music steps remaining (including the currently
playing one).
13 more seconds and you have finished your Burpees!
(See also the MC-Timer page for a web-simulation of the
progress rings).