Your equipment, logged once
Tell MuscleBuddy what equipment you have at home, at work or at your commercial gym, and Training prescribes only lifts you can do there. Your supplement stack and pantry are tracked the same way, so suggestions start from what you own.
One gym profile per place you train
Add a gym profile for home, a commercial gym, work or anywhere else you train, each with its own equipment list. Tick equipment from a catalog covering barbells and plates, dumbbells, cables and pulleys, machines, bodyweight, bands, and specialty gear such as a trap bar, safety squat bar, GHD or belt squat.
Barbells and plates go into more detail because the loading math depends on them. Add a bar from the catalog (Olympic, women's, deadlift, trap/hex, EZ-curl, safety squat, cambered, Swiss, axle) and the lifts it allows become available: add a safety squat bar and SSB work can be programmed. Plates record weight, collar type, plate type and quantity, so the plate calculator shows a loading you can build instead of assuming a full set.
Training reads your equipment list
The program generator and the exercise substitution engine filter against your active gym's equipment list. A dumbbells-only home gym won't get a barbell back squat, and a prescribed lift that doesn't fit your equipment gets a substitute that trains the same muscles.
A coverage card on your gym page shows how many exercises in the library your equipment allows and which single item would add the most if you bought it. The store's "Complete Your Gym" shelf reads the same numbers.
The floor plan: your gym, drawn to scale
Draw your gym's floor plan with equipment placed to scale in named zones, checked against published accessibility and safety guidance (as a planning reference, not a certification). Mid-workout, the plan opens for your session's gym and highlights the nearest matching unit, with text directions beside the map and a "not here?" option for when the map is wrong.
The floor plan is for finding equipment in your own gym, not for running a facility.
Supplement and pantry inventory
Equipment is one of three inventories MuscleBuddy keeps. Your supplement stack tracks the quantity left as you log doses, with vial tracking for injectables (vials left, from the volume per vial and the dose per injection) and a low-stock alert, which the store's "Time to Restock" shelf reads.
Your pantry does the same for food: log what you have at home with quantity and unit, and meal planning favors what you already have. A weekly meal plan's grocery list subtracts your pantry stock, so you shop for what is missing.
What this feeds across the four modules
Training filters generated programs and substitutions to your active gym's equipment. Health and Upkeep read your supplement inventory for the low-stock signal the store also uses. Nutrition reads your pantry to plan meals around what you have and to build a grocery list of what is missing. Each inventory is logged once and read by every module that needs it.
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 and switch your active gym when you change location. 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 plates you logged, by weight, collar type and quantity, so it shows a loading you can build with what you own.
- What happens if I add a piece of equipment mid-program?
The next program generation or substitution sees it straight away. Add a safety squat bar and SSB lifts become available as substitutions in your next session.
- Does the supplement inventory track injectables?
Yes. Vial tracking works out vials remaining from the volume per vial and the dose per injection you log, with the same low-stock and expiry tracking as the rest of your stack.
Log what you have
Set up a gym profile and Training programs around the equipment you own. Free: gym profiles, equipment, the floor plan, plus the programs that read all of it.