What's New in BodyPlan

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.