What's New in BodyPlan

BodyPlan now reads weight and body fat from Apple Health and Health Connect, so any smart scale whose own app writes there — Withings, Renpho, Eufy and more — keeps your body stats up to date with nothing else to set up. Your first connection brings in the last 30 days of readings, your calorie and macro targets follow each new weigh-in, and you can connect straight from Body Stats or from Profile → Integrations.

Body Stats is redesigned around what your weight is made of — lean mass and fat mass — with your rate of change read from the trend across all your weigh-ins. A new What Changed card tells you whether you are gaining or losing muscle or fat and how that sits with your goal. Every measurement you have recorded shows at once beside your waist-to-height ratio, and your history is grouped by month.

The coming week of your plan is saved to your device, so you can open and start any upcoming session without a signal, with your targets and previous sets already filled in. Exercises you add and sets you log offline stay on your phone and sync once you are back online, and the pictures for your recent and most popular exercises are ready offline too.

Touch and hold an exercise to drag it into a new position, in the plan editor and during a workout. Your progression follows each exercise wherever it moves, so when you rearrange or swap exercises the next session builds on that exercise’s own history.

When you copy a ready-made programme you can now run it as a repeating cycle — three days on, two off, for example — whatever the weekday. Pick a cycle of three to seven days and which days of it you train; the cycle starts on the day you copy it.

Your dashboard and plans screen now carry your plan on one card: the next session, the seven days ahead, your run of completed sessions and how consistently you have kept to the plan. Choosing a workout shows roughly how long each session takes, how many exercises it holds and a picture of one of them.

Generated plans now spread weekly volume across every muscle group, including direct arm work, and size each session — its sets, exercises and length — to the training intensity you choose.

On a very low calorie target, your recommended macros keep fat at its healthy minimum by easing protein towards its own minimum, and the targets screen tells you when a calorie goal is too low to meet both.

An exercise you add during a workout joins the end of the session.

Tap the Plans or Nutrition tab again to jump back to the top of the page.

A lighter, cleaner look across the dashboard, plans and workouts screens.

The dashboard now carries a rail of ready-made training programmes you can look through and take as your own. When you copy one you choose whether to train on set days each week or start sessions whenever you like, and you map the author’s training days onto the days that actually suit you.

You can now connect your BodyPlan account to Claude or ChatGPT and ask them about your own training — whether a lift has genuinely progressed, what your last six weeks actually looked like, or how the work you did compares with what your plan asked for. The connection is read-only, so an assistant can read what you share but can never change anything in your account. You choose what to share permission by permission when you connect, your progress photos and anything social are never included, and you can disconnect at any time from Profile → Integrations or from the assistant itself. Included with BodyPlan Pro.

Your dashboard, plans, workouts and nutrition now open from data already held on your device and refresh quietly in the background, so they appear immediately. Lists keep your place as you scroll, and anything you are part-way through typing stays where you left it.

You can now adjust your daily calorie target and the split between protein, carbs and fat directly from the nutrition screen, with BodyPlan’s own recommendation always one tap away if you want to go back to it.

Plan generation now builds each session around its movement focus, places conditioning work deliberately at the end of a session, and credits the big compound lifts for the smaller muscles they already train. Sessions come out tighter — the same weekly volume from fewer, better-chosen exercises.

Cardio is now selected from the equipment on your profile and stays consistent across the week, so a gym plan programmes the machines you actually have and a home or outdoor plan programmes the work you can do without them.

The muscle coverage map on a plan or workout is now held on your device after the first view, so it opens instantly every time you come back to it.

Importing from Hevy or Strong now recognises when a routine has been renamed over time — “Push” becoming “Day 2 - Push” — and brings it across as a single routine with its full history, so what arrives matches the split you actually train.

Challenges and their leaderboards have been redesigned with member avatars and clearer rank badges, so it is easier to see where you sit and who you are up against at a glance.

Sets and reps on generated exercises now follow the clean, standard targets a coach would write next to a lift.

The weight field now appears on weighted versions of bodyweight exercises, such as Cable Crunch and Weighted Hollow Body Hover, so you can record the load you used.

Equipment details have been refreshed across the exercise catalogue, so the movements in your plan match the kit you have.

Smoother scrolling on Android, more dependable exercise video playback, and quicker delivery of account and notification emails.

Exercises with a HIIT format now launch a dedicated full-screen timer that walks you through get-ready, work, and rest phases for each round, so you’re not watching a separate stopwatch mid-set.

You can now start a scheduled workout, a saved routine, or a custom workout with no internet connection at all. BodyPlan builds it from your cached plan data immediately and syncs it to your account automatically once you’re back online.

Plan generation now adapts more precisely to your profile: senior-specific pacing and volume, clearer separation between fat-loss, general-health, and toning plans, properly periodised endurance plans, and exercises that conflict with your flagged injuries are now reliably excluded when a plan is built.

Tapping a push notification now takes you straight to what it’s about, instead of just opening the dashboard, a trainer message opens your inbox or the workout it relates to, and a workout reminder or rest-complete notification opens that workout directly.

Fixed an issue where leaving intensity or experience level unset during plan setup could quietly default new plans to the easiest, beginner tier, unset now defaults to a standard, moderate effort level instead.

Fixed several exercises with incorrect equipment requirements or unclear names (like “Bird Dog”) appearing in generated plans, and removed secondary exercises that weren’t a good fit for certain movements.

After completing the final set of a weighted exercise, a small inline prompt appears asking how many reps you had left in the tank: Near failure (0-1), Productive effort (2-3), or Too easy (4+). Tap to save, tap again to change. Your rating feeds directly into the AI adjustment engine for your next session.

For muscle gain and hypertrophy plans, the AI now uses double progression rather than jumping straight to heavier weights. If a session felt easy and you’re below 12 reps, reps increase by 1. Once you reach 12 reps (or rate 4+ RIR), weight goes up and reps reset to 8. Strength and performance plans continue to use direct weight adjustments.

A new Movement restrictions section appears on the Health Integrations screen (Profile → Integrations). Tap chips to flag areas of injury or discomfort, Lower Back, Knee, Shoulder, Hip, Wrist, Neck, or Ankle. When BodyPlan next generates a plan for you, exercises whose primary muscle group overlaps with your flagged restrictions are excluded from the catalog entirely.

The plan creation flow now includes two additional inputs. Select your experience level (Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced) to help the AI calibrate starting weights appropriately. Optionally, enter your approximate 10-rep max for bench press, squat, and barbell row, these become anchor points the AI uses when assigning opening weights across your new plan.

A new ‘This week’s muscles’ card on the main dashboard shows which muscle groups you’ve trained in the past 7 days and how many sets you’ve accumulated per group, with proportional bars for each. The card only appears once you’ve logged at least one workout in the past 7 days.

New users who explore the app without an account now get a smoother onboarding flow, with improved sign-up transitions and a fixed issue where signing out could briefly show the wrong screen.

The iOS steps widget now uploads your daily step count to the server in the background when it refreshes, keeping your challenge leaderboard position up to date even if you haven’t opened the app.

The macro tiles on the dashboard have been redesigned with distinct background images and gradient overlays for protein, carbohydrates, and fat, each tile now shows a circular progress ring alongside your daily intake and target.

Fixed an edge case where a health sync could overwrite a higher step count with a stale lower reading, causing steps to appear to go backwards during the day.

iOS and Android home screen widgets are now available. The Steps widget shows your daily step count, progress toward your goal, and your leaderboard rank across today, this week, and this month. The Workout widget shows your next planned session name, muscle groups, and estimated duration, without opening the app.

Your current position in the monthly step challenge now appears directly on the dashboard, updating as the day progresses.

Actions taken without an internet connection, logging sets, saving meals, completing workouts, are now queued and automatically synced when connectivity returns.

A recent foods cache now shows your most frequently logged meals and ingredients at the top of the food search, so logging repeat meals takes fewer taps.

Background health sync is now more reliable at picking up steps and workout data from Apple Health and Health Connect, with fewer duplicate entries.

A new Challenges section lets you compete with other BodyPlan users each month across three leaderboards: workouts completed, total volume lifted, and total steps walked. Your position updates throughout the day as you log activity.

BodyPlan now syncs with Apple Health on iOS and Health Connect on Android. Steps, calories, and external workouts pull in automatically and appear on your dashboard. Connect under Profile → Integrations.

Calories burned during each workout are now estimated based on exercise type, duration, and load, and tracked alongside your daily nutrition totals.

A new Pods feature lets you create or join a private training group using an invite code. Pod members can see each other’s activity and progress. Find it under your Profile.

The sign-up flow has been redesigned from the ground up. New users are walked through the app’s key features with visual slides before creating their account, and the goal selection step has been simplified.

Various fixes to sign-in and authentication flow edge cases.

BodyPlan now automatically tracks your all-time best for every exercise: heaviest weight lifted, highest estimated 1-rep max, and best total volume in a single session. Personal records appear on exercise detail screens and are surfaced in your stats.

A new insights system analyses your training history and surfaces patterns: volume trends per muscle group, estimated strength progression, and recovery signals. This powers the Recovery Radar improvements and plan auto-adjustment logic.

Alongside scheduled plans (fixed days of the week), you can now build and follow workout routines, a flexible sequence you repeat on your own schedule rather than against a calendar.

Outdoor runs, cycles, and walks can now be tracked with GPS directly in the app, with a live map view and pace, distance, and elevation data saved to your workout history.

Photos and videos can now be attached to completed workouts and shown on your public profile.

Plans can be published to a public catalog for other users to follow. Profile pages now show training stats, recent workouts, and public activity for users who opt in.