As much as the muscle-clad masses may get a bit of stick for being brainless steroid scoffers, getting your pecs, abs, triceps and glutes to look like they could hold their own in a fight requires dedication, planning and an avoidance of the urge to just stop exercising and eat pizza. Both an educational and organisational app, iFitness is designed to help you in this regard.

It's essentially split up into three sections- finding out how to do the exercises, making up workouts consisting of them and then tracking which workouts you do over the weeks and months. An ambitiously comprehensive aim then and, in spite of some shotcomings and some rough edges where the seams join up, iFitness doesn't make a bad job of it.

It includes over 160 different exercises, which you can search by name or by select by choosing which muscles you want to work on- perfect for those really looking to hone their workouts. You're given a graphical representation of how to perform each exercise because, let's face it, just telling you which limb to move and when in text form really isn't going to cut it.

Unfortunately, there are only ever two visual steps to each exercise- not always enough for the exercise to be entirely clear. It's fine for the majority of them though. As a ground-up workout app, iFitness then offers you a fairly generous series of basic routines designed towards different aims. From weight loss or abdominal definition to the full body workout, it's a decent beginner's list that even includes a routine for the on-the-go businessman.

Some of them are just simple sequences of exercises where others give you multiple lists of exercises, and tell you exactly when to perform them over an elongated period- even several months. These basic first steps into the world of organised exercise are what iFitness excels at. Although it then also gives you scope to create you own custom workouts, and even add your own custom exercises with their own homemade pictures, we found this last slice of iFitness a little harder to swallow.

It's not particularly streamlined to make manual entering of reps and durations particularly intuitive or easy, as you have to go into a submenu of each exercise to do so. It feels a little as if this more advanced feature is sitting under the thumb of the more beginner-oriented reference section of the app, which is a pity considering it can be used to track your exercises over months and even years- if you really are that dedicated.

Still, as a personal trainer app to ease you into doing proper workouts without either winging it entirely or having an over-enthusiastic goon that you're paying for doing the honours, iFitness is a well informed and, at least initially, very easy-to-use place to start.