Custom weight increments
Tell Dr. Muscle what weight increments you have available (e.g. 5 lbs or 1 kg) and you'll only get recommendations that fit those increments.
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Bodyweight Exercises and Workouts
Dr. Muscle now supports bodyweight exercises! Create your own, or select from our default list. We've also added bodyweight workouts levels 1 and 2. Now, you can train from home with no equipment, in as little as 9 minutes.
Normal sets
Normal sets is a top requested feature, so I'm pumped to bring it to you today! Normal sets are better for strength development and can be safer for multi-joint lifts (especially if you carry them to failure). Downside: they take more time.
Choose Your Background Image
You can now choose from a male, female, or no image (solid black) background.
Smash New Records: Recover With Easy Workouts
You start lifting weights. A few months later, you’ve gained a fair bit of muscle. You lift heavier weights, and you do more sets. Your workouts start to beat up your body. So, you need more time to recover between workouts than you used to. This is where easy
Fine tune your training with reps in reserve
Build muscle faster with this tip from the first US male powerlifter to win gold at the World Games: Reps in Reserve. There are many ways to apply reps in reserve, and the specifics can get quite complex. To simplify, Dr. Muscle now automates all of this for you. If
Customize your rep range
We’ve just updated Dr. Muscle to let you choose your rep range, and focus on: * Building muscle and strength (5-12 reps) * A mix of building muscle and burning fat (8-15 reps) * Fat-burning mode (12-20) * Custom (any range between 5 and 30 reps) Quick reminder: Low reps are better at
Build muscle in half the time!
Prestes et al. (2017) found that you could build muscle just as fast with 1 rest-pause set than you would with 3 normal sets. And now, it's easier than ever to use rest-pause. Our new update automates rest-pause fully, and our app now guides you step by step
Warm up with Dr. Muscle
In a systematic review, McCrary et al. (2015) found “strong research-based evidence” that “warm-ups enhance power and strength performance.” So, you should warm up before each set with light weights. And now, Dr. Muscle tells you exactly how.
Your Program Levels Up Automatically
It is said that Milo of Croton gained enormous strength by lifting and carrying a newborn calf daily as it grew to a mature bull. Now you can do almost the same thing: with this update, your program levels up automatically as you do it. You'll also always