Barbell Medicine

I’ve been using the BBM for a couple years now, starting with the free beginner program then checking out the free trials of other programs and buying several (hypertrophy, powerbuilding) and since the beginning of 2024 for personal coaching. I was a coach potato (and looked like one) when I started with BBM and now I look pretty jacked and am the strongest and healthiest I’ve ever been in my life. 100/10 would recommend and check out BBM’s free podcast and seminars if you want to dive deeper!

Not sure if it’s iOS 18 or if it’s the new screen size of the iPhone 16 pro but the app now has bugs on my new phone. The buttons on the bottom “home, history, and the button and “programs” “profile” are now skewed and unresponsive Which limits my ability to fully access everything I need on the app. When it’s fully functional it’s a 5 star app.

The programs are great. Worth the purchase. I rerun old ones all the time. The user flow doesn’t get in the way, very easy to jump into the next workout and see what’s you need to do. Also easy to look back at previous sets of an exercise, whether the exercise is part of the current template or not. Only gripe is the button and box extents are too small and should extent beyond the outline if possible. As in, I miss hit the number pad 20-50% of the time. And I will record 58 reps instead of 5 reps at RPE 8 because I miss hit the next box with my thumb. There is a next arrow for navigation (it’s also too small), but that’s not how people use phones. You touch the open box to go there. Otherwise, it’s a solid app.