Lilly Sabri recently released a fitness app on the back of her hugely popular YouTube channel, which has 3 million subscribers and is still growing. With personalized travel guides, meal plans that celebrate their love of food, and early access to their Lean branded products, the app already meets many criteria. but there is more in stock.
Find out what Lilly has planned for the app, from live Q & As and workouts to a community feature, in our Lean app interview. You can also check out her history to date on our Fitness Influencer profile, but for now let’s dive into what the Lean app has to offer and what sets it apart from the plethora of other fitness apps on the market.
(Photo credit: Lilly Sabri)
Overview of lean apps
The Lean app is meant to be a place where users can get personalized workouts, meal plans, and a range of other content. In addition to the training guides determined by your answers to a few questions during setup, there are classes, warm-ups, activations, and cooldowns that you can combine however you want. You’ll also find a challenges section, which is made up of shorter workouts that can be swapped for your guides in place of the finishers.
The setup asks for your weight, how often you want to exercise each week, how many meals you want to eat per day (between three and five) and four options for dietary restrictions: Standard, Pescatarian, Vegetarian, and Vegan. You will also be asked to choose your goal on a sliding scale, with “Fat Loss and Tone” on one end, “Build and Build Muscle” on the other end, and “Tone and Maintain” in the middle. You can change these settings at any time, which affects your training plan and your nutrition plan.
The workouts themselves do not lose any of the personality and commitment that Lilly Sabri fans are used to from their YouTube channel. Instead of gif-based workouts, the Lean app offers real-time workouts with everything that made Lilly so popular in the first place; from her dog Teddy sitting to the side or trying to get involved in the workout to her cheering as she struggles through the workout with you.
In addition to the workouts, you’ll find a Physio section (Lilly’s strength after graduating with a BCS in Physiotherapy) that covers injury prevention and pain management, as well as a “Learning Exercise” section to make sure your form is right for things like the deadlift , Side planks and so on. As with the workouts, these are real-time videos – not just gifs.
There’s an in-depth nutrition section with Lilly and lean nutritionist Alan Kenny, as well as a section on Lilly’s lean resistance and HIIT bands. The recipe section is where you can browse all of the food and snack ideas in the app, while the Habits tab is the mental health app’s page that has journaling and a habit tracker.
As if this huge library of content wasn’t enough, fans of the Lean with Lilly brand who have been keeping an eye on the drops from the Lean bands and new additions to the Nourish and Glow range will get early access to the Store tab. Even though Lilly says the product drops won’t be as limited or small as they were before, they’re still incredibly popular with her followers for app users.
I’m really blown away with the sheer amount of content in the app and the commitment not to bother with boring recipes or gif-based workouts that Lilly told us would have been the easy option.
Lean app workouts
Lilly’s YouTube workouts are tough, but the Lean app workouts are grueling by comparison, although you still have the option to customize the guides to some extent. Each day in your personalized plan consists of warm up, activation, main workout, finisher, and cool down, but you can toggle activation and finisher when you are short on time or feel like you don’t need them.
Nothing is lost in the transition from YouTube to the app, because the real-time workouts offer the same enthusiasm and motivation as on Lilly’s channel. The guides run for four weeks with days off based on your answers to the setup quiz, but you can still do it at your own pace thanks to the option to mark them as complete as you progress.
I will note that the app is not yet perfect at this point; There are some teething troubles and more tweaks still need to be made. For example, you can’t swap your rest days right now, and my guide got stuck on day five after trying to manually swap my rest day for a workout. The daily workouts are now out of sync with the guide, and although I can go to the overall guide area to choose the “right” day, it’s a bit frustrating. Fortunately, Lilly says the option to swap your days off is on the way.
Music is a big part of Lilly’s YouTube workouts and that hasn’t been neglected in the app. In addition to broadcasting your workout to the TV, you can also click the Spotify or Apple Music icons to go to the respective apps to choose your soundtrack. The Spotify button takes you to Lean with Lilly playlists for the specific exercise (Pilates, Cardio, etc), but you can play whatever you want.
It’s worth noting that you will need an internet connection to play the videos, but since this is home training, this is probably not too much of a problem. If you plan on going to a park to pamper yourself, you will need to use your cellular data so keep that in mind.
Lean app meal planning
If you love your food, the recipes and menu won’t disappoint! From shakes, smoothies bowls and snacks to burgers, shakshuka and Malaysian coconut curry – the Lean app is full of delicious recipes.
The library is a mix of mostly Lilly’s own recipes (and those of her friends and family) and a la carte dishes from the Lean Chef that require a little more preparation and ingredients. The latter category of meals currently stands at 15 total, but expect more recipes from Lilly and her lean chef.
Your plan offers specific recipes based on how many times you want to eat each day. However, if you’re not happy with the selection, you can click the mix icon and look for alternatives. Unfortunately this function has been deprecated for me. While less than 3% of users experience errors on both Android and iOS, a secondary problem seems to be a slower user experience for Huawei users. It didn’t affect the workout videos themselves, but when it comes to redesigning the meal plan, it doesn’t respond for me.
I’m in the minority here though and can still browse the recipes. It’s not ideal as it lacks the plan’s full experience in terms of meal planning, but Lilly says the development team is studying how to speed up the functionality for Huawei users. The experience will be significantly smoother and less of a hassle if you’re using something other than a Huawei phone that packs more RAM.
The shopping list function is particularly practical. You can view your list for Today and All Week with a toggle on the Week tab that allows you to divide your shopping list by days.
Without my phone’s influence on this part of the app, I would be a lot more excited about it. But when you look at the full range of recipes, food lovers will be in heaven! And of course there’s the option to toggle macros on and off if you’d rather not see that information and just enjoy your food, knowing that you are eating what you need to achieve your aesthetic goal while enjoying every bite .
Lean mental health app
Mental health was a big aspect of the Lean app. The macro toggle is designed to avoid triggers for people with eating disorders, while the dedicated Habits section allows the user to log and track their habits.
You can enter a habit name that will offer ideas in a drop-down menu based on your input. You can then set the frequency – either daily or weekly – and how often you want to maintain it within that time frame. Customizable push notifications will encourage you, and you can assign colors to spice up your page.
The journaling feature has a text and picture component, and while the habits are visible on the tab, the journal entries are hidden under the “My Journal” section so as not to flood the main tab.
I prefer pen and paper to typing my thoughts into an app, but if you’ve gone beyond the need for such primitive tools, this section is a great way to document your fitness journey. Personally, it’s not for me.
Lilly mentioned a community function. So if there is some kind of integration for this aspect in this tab, it could become more appealing to the existing community who are very vocal and supportive on social media.
Slim app verdict
All in all, the Lean app goes far beyond the usual expectations of a fitness app. It could easily have gone a less complicated route in terms of the workouts and recipes. But by making sure it captures the essence of what Lilly resonated with so many people from the start, it knocks them out of the park.
The ever-evolving nature and type of content promised make it incredible value for money and bring in the community feature that the Familia has promoted on social media.
I haven’t even gotten around to exploring all of the content on offer and knowing there’s more to be added justifies the £ 9.99 monthly subscription cost. Lilly has set itself the goal of making it an appealing forum in which fans can come into contact with professionals and each other and develop a positive relationship with food in addition to training.
Of course there are always the free workouts on YouTube, but the Lean app offers real added value beyond the free content. If you’re looking for real-time workouts that keep you motivated and encouraged, a huge library of recipes that celebrate food, and tons of additional content, then you should check out the Lean app.
The Lean app is available for download in the App Store and Google Play with three subscription models. You can pay $ 13.99 / £ 9.99 / AU $ 17.99 / € 10.99 for a monthly subscription, $ 33.99 / £ 24.49 / AU $ 43.99 / € 27.99 for a quarterly subscription Billing and a saving of 15% or $ 111.99 / £ 79.99 / AU $ 144.99 / € 91.99 for an annual membership plus a seven-day free trial that offers a saving of 33%.
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