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
The coaching layer is built around one rule: 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. By default, calorie changes and recovery deloads the app proposes wait for your coach to review them before they reach you.
They can also write a program block by hand and skip the generator entirely. The automation gives your coach a starting point and a safety net, and your coach has the final say.
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 you can undo that choice.
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, the app generates a program and nutrition targets. Your coach reviews and edits them before you see them, so your first login shows a plan they have signed off.
The AI coach is a different thing
The in-app AI coach chat is available to any Pro member, coached or not, and answers questions about your own data. A coached client on the free tier does not have it. It is not a human coach, and it can't override one.
When it ends
You own your data. When a coaching relationship ends, the coach loses access, and your logs, history and progress stay in your account.
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 do, and how they connect.
Logging Your First Workout
The 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 the other progression methods set your training loads from what you log.
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