Correct what the app assumes about you
A fitness app reads a raised standing heart rate as effort, which is wrong if you have POTS. It reads a big range of motion as good, which can be wrong with hypermobility. Declare a condition and MuscleBuddy corrects those assumptions. Medical decisions stay with you and your doctor or physio.
Informational only, not medical advice. Consult a qualified clinician before changing medication, hormones, or supplements.
Declare zero or more, comorbidity included
Declare any of the conditions MuscleBuddy has a pack for: POTS or orthostatic intolerance, hypermobility or EDS, narcolepsy, ADHD, autoimmune conditions and psoriasis, or IBS. Each pack adjusts screens you already use (training, your daily check-in, the recovery score and nutrition) instead of adding a separate module.
Plenty of people declare more than one. Where two conditions set the same constraint, the more restrictive value wins. If two packs would push a sodium and fluid target in opposite directions, MuscleBuddy leaves it unresolved and asks you to choose.
Three tiers, and you control where the line sits
Each capability belongs to one of three tiers. Calibration corrects an assumption the app would otherwise get wrong (how it reads heart-rate intensity, how it weights the recovery score, how it treats range of motion). It turns on when you declare and stays on.
Surfacing points things out without telling you what to do: a session with several floor-to-standing transitions gets a note, on by default and dismissible. Adaptation changes your programming or a target. A swap to an equivalent movement is on by default with one-tap undo. Anything that moves a number you train against (a sodium and fluid target, an end-range limit, a volume cut) stays off until you opt in. Each adaptation states what changed and why: "seated leg curl instead of lying leg curl, POTS: transition reduction."
What a coach can and cannot touch
Only you can declare your conditions. A coach cannot, because recording one for someone else amounts to a diagnosis. A coach sees what you have declared only through the health-sharing setting that covers the rest of your data. They can tune an adaptation-tier constraint for you, and their value wins there, but no one can override calibration, you included.
If a coach's template conflicts with a condition you have not shared, they are told which part of the template conflicts, not which condition caused it.
Reference protocols you choose to load
Where MuscleBuddy carries a published reference protocol for a condition, it is a template you choose to load; declaring the condition does not apply it. An athlete who trains hard and manages hypermobility well does not get a rehab progression for ticking a box.
Rehab episodes work the same way for a specific injury: a staged recovery for one region while training for the rest of your body carries on. A stage advances only when you or your coach advance it, and each advance is logged with who made the call.
What it hands back to you and your doctor
Nothing here diagnoses, prescribes or promises an outcome. A condition profile changes how Training builds and adjusts your program and how Health reads your recovery score and vitals. The clinical schedules (medication reminders, redraws and appointments) live in Upkeep. It does not tell you what is wrong or what to take.
A marker suggestion states what it can rule out, not what it proves. A supplement or medication note is information, not a recommendation. What a symptom means, what to do about it and whether a rehab stage suits your injury are decisions for you and your clinician or physio. MuscleBuddy keeps the record you bring to that conversation.
Frequently asked
- Does declaring a condition diagnose or treat anything?
No. MuscleBuddy stores what you declare, corrects assumptions the app was making about your data, and cites reference information where relevant. It does not diagnose a condition, prescribe a treatment, or tell you what to take. Decisions about your condition stay with you and your doctor or physio.
- What changes when I declare a condition?
It depends on the tier. Calibration corrects the app's own assumptions straight away (heart-rate intensity, recovery weighting, range of motion) and can't be turned off. Surfacing adds notices you can dismiss. Adaptation changes programming or a target, and anything that moves a number you train against stays off until you opt in.
- Can my coach see or add conditions for me?
A coach can't declare a condition for you. If you share your health data with them, they see what you've declared and can tune an adaptation-tier constraint. They can't change calibration, and they can't see which condition is behind a flagged conflict unless you tell them.
- Is a rehab episode the same thing as a condition profile?
No. A condition profile is an ongoing declaration about you. A rehab episode is a staged recovery for one injury that your training works around. In both, nothing advances or applies on its own, and each change records who made it.
- Does declaring a condition show up anywhere social?
No. A declared condition does not appear in a feed, on a leaderboard, or in any export, and only a coach you have shared your health data with can see it.
Tell the app what applies to you
Declare a condition and Training, Health and Upkeep read your data with it in mind. Free: condition profiles and the adaptations they turn on; flagging an exercise that hurt today; and a rehab episode and the stages it moves through.