MuscleBuddy 101: What's Where and Why

MuscleBuddy does a lot: training, nutrition, health tracking, coaching, and a social layer, all in one app. That breadth is the point, but it also means the first few minutes can feel like a lot to take in. This guide is the map.

Plan

Your program lives here: the training split you're following, the current phase (e.g. a hypertrophy block followed by a deload), and any upcoming phase transitions. If you don't have a program yet, this is where you generate or pick one from our free workout programs.

Train

This is the day-to-day: logging sets and reps, seeing your exercise history, progress photos, and your muscle rank. Whatever progression method your program uses (double progression, linear, RPE-based, or a custom scheme) adjusts your working weights here automatically as you log. Browse the full exercise library any time you want technique cues or muscle-group ideas.

Nutrition

Your macro targets, food logging, and weigh-in tracking. Targets aren't set once and forgotten. They auto-adjust on a rolling basis as your weigh-in trend comes in, so a stall or an unexpectedly fast change gets corrected without you doing the math yourself. Want a preview before you sign up? Try the free macro calculator.

Health

The free health hub: daily check-ins (where your vitals get logged too), recovery score, and (for compound or bloodwork tracking) the deeper health protocols. Everyone gets check-ins and recovery; the more advanced health tooling unlocks as you need it.

Community

Classes, the AI coach chat (if you're on a coaching plan), challenges, and the social feed. This is also where a human coach, if you have one, sees your data and can override anything the automated system suggests.

Where to go next

• Log your first workout
• Understand how progression works
• See how nutrition targets adjust