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Swap out dumbbell exercises automatically
No dumbbells? No problem! In Settings, you can now toggle off dumbbells to swap out all dumbbell exercises from your workouts automatically. Full release notes (v1264) * Added: toggle off dumbbells to swap out all dumbbell exercises * Improved: exercise videos in fullscreen * Improved: design of action buttons (green is now blue)
"All sets done—finish exercise?"
We're making Dr. Muscle easier to use. Now, as you finish the last set of an exercise, you'll see a popup with an option to finish that exercise as well, speeding up your workouts. Full release notes (v1257) * Added: "All sets done—finish exercise?"
Customize sets at the workout level
We're making Dr. Muscle even more flexible! You can now customize sets at the workout level to create Heavy, Low, Medium days (and other popular routines). Full release notes (v1250) * Added: Customize sets at the workout level * Added: Recommended weekly workouts to reminders * Improved: New user onboarding (demo
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Build Muscle at Home With Bands: Convenient, Cheap & Versatile
Bands are cheap, lightweight, and portable. Unlike dumbbells, you can do pushing and pulling exercise with them. You can also train your legs pretty hard with bands (normally, you'd need a bar and plates for that). Have a look: Bands Exercises to Build Muscle at Home Build muscle
Buffed with Bands!
Bands are great to work out at home. So we're excited to release new bands programs! "Buffed w/ bands" levels 1 and 2 are now available inside Dr. Muscle, with videos for all exercises. Full release notes (v1234) * Added: Bands programs level 1 and 2 (Workouts
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Cardio
By default, Dr. Muscle does not include cardio in your program. You don’t have to do cardio to get lean and doing too much can slow down your mass gains. But you may want to do cardio for other reasons (e.g. it’s like medicine for your health)
Pyramid sets
As you may already know, varying reps every workout has been shown to speed up progress (Rhea et al. 2002). But what about covering a wide range of reps in the same workout? You can do it with pyramid sets, a time-tested technique coach Martin Berkhan says is "the
Toggle plates off
No plates? No problem! Toggle them off under Settings, and the app will swap out all plate exercises from your workouts. In most cases, you'll get dumbbell variations instead. Update also includes two more top requested features: plate calculator shows on fullscreen timer now, and easy/medium exercises