Working With a Coach
What changes when a human coach is attached to your account: what they can see, what they can override, and what happens to your data if you part ways.
MuscleBuddy generates a program and adjusts your targets on its own. A human coach sits on top of that rather than replacing it, and when the two disagree, the coach wins.
Coach sovereignty
This is the rule the rest of the coaching layer is built around: a coach can override any default, for any client. Progression method, macro split, adjustment thresholds, deload protocol, phase timing: all of it is configurable per client, and any adjustment the app proposes can be reviewed and changed before it reaches you.
They can also write a program block by hand and bypass the generator entirely. The automation is a starting point and a safety net, not an authority your coach has to argue with.
What they can see
Your training (current program, last session, progression history), your nutrition (targets, adherence, weigh-in trend, any pending auto-adjustment) and your phase plan. Your supplement stack and health dashboard reach them only if you share them, and that is your choice, made by you, and reversible.
They also keep private per-client notes. Those are the coach's working notes and are not visible to you, in the same way your own private logs are not visible to them by default.
Getting started with one
A coach sends you an onboarding link. You fill in the usual: goal, experience, measurements, schedule, the gym you train at, food preferences. From that, a program and nutrition targets generate. Your coach reviews and edits that before you ever see it, so what lands on your first login is something they have signed off rather than a raw draft.
The AI coach is a different thing
The in-app AI coach chat is available on coaching plans and answers questions about your own data. It is not a human coach, and it never overrides one.
When it ends
Data ownership stays with you. When a coaching relationship ends, the coach loses access: your logs, history and progress stay exactly where they are, in your account, and nothing you built with them leaves with them.
Where to go next
More guides
MuscleBuddy 101: What's Where and Why
A quick orientation to the app: what Plan, Train, Nutrition, Health, and Community actually do, and how they connect.
Logging Your First Workout
The actual logging flow: starting a session, recording sets, RPE/RIR, and how offline mode keeps you covered.
Understanding Your Program & Progression
How double-progression, linear, RPE, and other progression methods automatically adjust your training loads.
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