Features
Your gym, logged once, read everywhere
Tell MuscleBuddy what equipment you have at home, at work, or at your commercial gym, and Training stops prescribing lifts you cannot do. The same list feeds your supplement stack and pantry inventories, so what you own drives what the app suggests next, not the other way around.
One gym profile per place you train
Add a gym profile for Home, Commercial Gym, Work, or anywhere else you train, each with its own equipment list. Tick equipment from a standardized catalog covering barbells and plates, dumbbells, cables and pulleys, machines, bodyweight, bands, and specialty gear like a trap bar, SSB, GHD, or belt squat.
Barbells and plates go deeper because loading math depends on it. Add a bar from a catalog (Olympic, women's, deadlift, trap/hex, EZ-curl, safety squat, cambered, Swiss, axle) and owning it turns on the equipment it implies: put a safety squat bar on the shelf and SSB work becomes programmable. Plates get their own detail too: weight, collar type, plate type, and quantity, so the plate calculator can show exactly what to load instead of assuming a full set.
Training reads your equipment, not a guess
Your active gym's equipment list is what the program generator and the exercise substitution engine filter against. No barbell back squat lands in your plan if your home gym is dumbbells-only, and if a prescribed lift genuinely does not fit what you have, you get a substitute that trains the same thing instead of a lift you cannot do.
A coverage card on your gym page shows what your current gear reaches: how many exercises are unlocked against how many exist in the library, and which single piece of equipment would unlock the most if you added it. That is the same signal the store's "Complete Your Gym" shelf reads, so a gap in your garage and a recommendation in the store are never disconnected facts.
The floor plan: your gym, drawn to scale
Draw your gym's floor plan with equipment placed at real coordinates in named zones, checked against published accessibility and safety guidance (planning reference, not certification). Mid-workout, the plan resolves from your session's gym and highlights the nearest matching unit, with text directions alongside the map, plus a "not here?" correction path when the map is wrong.
The floor plan and the status views it feeds are built for a member finding their own equipment, not for running a facility: this is your own gym's layout, plotted so you can find what you logged.
Supplement and pantry inventory, the same idea applied twice
The equipment list is one of three inventories MuscleBuddy tracks so Nutrition and Health can read what you actually have on hand. Your supplement stack tracks quantity remaining as you log doses, with vial tracking for injectables (volume per vial and dose per injection resolve to vials left) and a low-stock alert once you're running low, so the store's "Time to Restock" shelf has something real to point at.
Your pantry does the same for food: log what is stocked at home with quantity and unit, and meal planning can prioritize what you already have instead of a fresh grocery list every time. A weekly meal plan's grocery list subtracts your logged pantry stock automatically, so you shop for the gap, not the whole recipe.
What this feeds across the four modules
Training filters every generated program and substitution to your active gym's equipment. Health and Upkeep read your supplement inventory for the same low-stock signal the store surfaces. Nutrition reads your pantry to prioritize meal plans around what is already stocked and to build a grocery list that only asks for what is missing. Log it once in the place it lives, gym, stack, or pantry, and every module that needs it reads the same record.
Frequently asked
- Do I need to log equipment for every gym I use?
- Only the ones you want programs generated for. Add a profile for each place you train (home, commercial gym, work), and switch your active gym whenever you switch locations. Programs and substitutions filter to whichever gym is active.
- Does this manage equipment for a whole facility?
- No. This is your own gym profile, whether that's a home rack or the equipment you personally use at a commercial gym. Facility-wide inventory, maintenance logs, and multi-branch management are a separate offering for gym owners and are not covered here.
- How does the plate calculator use my inventory?
- It reads the exact plates you logged, by weight, collar type, and quantity, so it shows a loading you can actually build instead of assuming you own a matched full set.
- What happens if I add a piece of equipment mid-program?
- The next program generation or substitution pass sees it immediately. Adding a safety squat bar, for example, opens up SSB-based lifts the same session you log it.
- Does the supplement inventory track injectables?
- Yes. Vial tracking calculates vials remaining from the volume per vial and the dose per injection you log, alongside the same low-stock and expiry tracking every other item in your stack gets.
Log what you have. Let the app do the filtering.
Set up a gym profile, and Training, your supplement stack, and your pantry all start reading what you actually own.