My Context: dad to many kids, fully employed, home gym, consistency is not an issue.

My Goals: maintain my current level of general fitness while seeking to improve my strength numbers. Looking good is a goal but secondary to the others.

Interestingly, aside from Flo, all the others come from prior CrossFit Games athletes and personalities. So you might say I have a type.

1,000 Days of Street Parking — And Why I Went Looking for More

I have been using StreetParking for my fitness programming for YEARS. While consistency was never my problem, I do like just heading to the gym and being told what to do. I experimented with StreetParking's accessory/strength programs and just found that the self-guided nature of utilizing those was not getting me where I wanted to go. I worked in their dumbbell strength, Wendler 5/3/1, Oly Strength, and even a year of weekly swimming endurance workouts.

Somewhere around day 800 with Street Parking, I started to feel like I'd outgrown what the program was designed to give me and committed to sticking it out until 1000 workouts before moving onto something else.

Street Parking is genuinely great for what it is; general fitness, get in, get out, get it done. The app is easy to navigate, and for most of those 1,000 days that was exactly what I needed. But over time, some gaps started to show. The warmups were repetitive and generic, never really tied to the day's work. The workouts were just a WOD; no progressions, no training cycles, nothing building toward anything. Accessory work existed, and there was plenty of it, but it was entirely self-guided, which meant I had to pick it and manage it, every time. And after a while, the movements themselves started repeating in ways that felt less like variety and more like a shrinking pool.

None of that makes Street Parking bad. It made me realize what I actually wanted next: real strength programming, with cycles, structure, and less decision fatigue. So I went shopping. Here's what I found.

StreetParking Bottom Line: absolutely great if you struggle with consistency, have limited equipment, and just want to make sure you are moving your body.

Flo Functional Fitness — $180/year

Flo Functional Fitness was the first real departure from the WOD format. The workouts lean much more into volume than conditioning, with a clear strength focus, and everything (warmup, main work, cashout) is just built into the day's program. No searching, no choosing, just showing up and doing what's in front of you. There are training cycles built in, which was exactly the structural piece I was missing. A weekly recap video was a nice touch too.

The catch is the app itself, which is clunky to work through maybe it improves with time, but it's a real friction point. Substituting barbell for kettlebell when the KB weights aren't heavy enough is also more annoying than it should be. That said, the workouts leave me legitimately gassed, which told me something important: Street Parking hadn't been pushing me nearly as hard as I thought.

A note on the app: it is the same platform that Ibex uses, or at least the same developers. Some more time with the app has improved my opinion on it.

Flo Bottom Line: fun, lots of new stuff with kettlebells, but the metcon/WOD piece was missing for me and the conditioning pieces just felt like they were tacked on.

Ibex — $396/year (or ~$238/year with an apparent 40% annual discount)

Ibex runs on the same app platform as Flo, so a lot of the same feedback applies — though once I understood how to use it, it stopped feeling awful. It actually makes more sense here, in a program with more moving pieces, than it would in Street Parking's single-WOD format.

The training style feels more traditional "gym-bro," with somewhat less volume than Flo, and workouts run close to an hour with a heavier equipment demand. Ibex offers a choice between Strength & Conditioning and Performance Aesthetics tracks — S&C is the one that actually matches what I'm looking for. Like Flo, these workouts left me gassed, which reinforced the same conclusion: Street Parking alone wasn't enough for where I want to go.

Ibex Bottom Line: offers a good balance between traditional WODs and some more bodybuilding style and strength movements. The workout flow is warmup, strength, WOD, accessory/cooldown. This really fits what I was looking for.

Marcus Filly — Functional Aesthetics — $325/year

Filly's program runs on the same app format as Flo and Ibex, but on a noticeably nicer platform. The structure is strength, plus accessory work, plus a cooldown, with 3-, 4-, or 5-day options and training cycles that run 4–6 weeks. On programming alone, it feels very similar to Ibex. This program did include a concept of a "Strength Balance" section, which is basically accessory work but clearly geared towards more stabilization muscles, which was kind of interesting.

Unfortunately, the app has real problems: it crushes battery life, doesn't respect sound-dampening settings, the timer doesn't sound if the screen turns off, and always-on behavior is inconsistent. On app experience alone, this one's a no for me, which is a shame, because between the two, I think Ibex's app is simply better than Filly's, even though the training content is comparable.

Marcus Filly Bottom Line: Programming is similar to Ibex so I did like it, but the app woes are just not something I can look past.

Linchpin — $180/year

Linchpin is built on BTWB, which brings some genuinely nice features: leaderboards, diet and mood tracking, goal times for WODs, and percentile stats from the field. The social layer is nice without being social-media noisy (though it can get a little chatty), even if I did not plan to utilize this feature.

Where it falls short is the accessory work, which felt disjointed and didn't connect to the day's WOD — Day 1 was rough, though Day 2 was better. Rep schemes lean on wide ranges rather than specifics, and the cooldown is generic and not especially directed. This is very much OG CrossFit style, and honestly — maybe it's just four weeks of new-program fatigue talking — but the workouts haven't excited me. They feel more like beatdowns than progress, and I'm skeptical you can actually finish them in an hour if you do the full accessory work.

Linchpin Bottom Line: The promised elegance felt more like a gauntlet to overcome. While it was familiar from my time at CrossFit gyms, I didn't get the sense that I would see the progress I anticipated from the other programs.

Where This Leaves Me

Laying it all out, a pattern emerges. Street Parking was never going to deliver structured strength progression — that's not the program it set out to be. Flo and Ibex both deliver real strength focus with actual cycles, and both genuinely challenge me in a way Street Parking didn't. Ibex's Strength & Conditioning track lines up best with what I'm after, and its app — while sharing DNA with Flo's — is at least workable. Filly has comparable programming but is disqualified on app reliability alone. Linchpin has nice community features but hasn't hooked me on the training side.

Right now, it's a two-horse race between Flo and Ibex, with Ibex's S&C track edging ahead — mostly on the strength of matching exactly what I said I wanted from the start.

Ultimate decision: Ibex, escpeically with their 40% discount offer.

I'll check back in a few months and provide an update!