FREE GYM APP FOR ANDROID
Know exactly what to lift today.
Barbell Bowl builds your plan from six questions, gives you the weight for every exercise, and keeps working when the week goes wrong.
Free. No ads. No account needed. Works with no signal.
FREE GYM APP FOR ANDROID
Barbell Bowl builds your plan from six questions, gives you the weight for every exercise, and keeps working when the week goes wrong.
Free. No ads. No account needed. Works with no signal.
Most people who download a fitness app stop using it within a month. Not because they stopped caring, but because the plan fell apart on the first bad week. Barbell Bowl is built around the three moments where it usually does.
The next workout waits for you. Seven days or more away and your first sets back are a little lighter, so coming back feels good instead of crushing.
Tap Machine busy. Do it later moves it to the end with the same weights, or swap to the same muscle on whatever is free.
Every exercise has start and finish photos and the steps that matter, and your first weights are picked for you.
Every screen here is a capture of the app on a phone, not a mockup drawn for a website.
Goal, experience, days a week, where you train, your body and how you eat. Your plan and first weights are ready before any account.
The weight is already filled in. Tap the tick and the rest timer starts. Close the app mid-set and nothing is lost.
Every set at the top of the rep range and the weight goes up next time. Fall short and it holds while you build the reps. Rules you can read.
THE ONE THAT DECIDES EVERYTHING ELSE
Basement gym, no bars, lift anyway. Every set is saved on your phone first and shows instantly. Nothing in the app waits on a network, because a gym is the one place you cannot count on one.
Missed days are not punished. There is no streak to lose and no sad notification. The app just picks up where you left off.
Every prescription is snapped to the plates on your bar, the dumbbells on the rack and the pins on the stack, in kilograms or pounds.
Plain answers for people who lift, and the reasoning behind every rule in the app.
Nobody is watching you as closely as you think. A plain plan for day one, the first week, and the soreness that shows up two days later.
Fewer than 4 in 100 people who install a health and fitness app are still using it a month later. Habits take longer than that to form. The gap explains most of the quitting.
Three different whole-body sessions, three days a week, done in order. What goes in each one, how to add weight, and what to do when Wednesday falls apart.
Yes. The app is free on Google Play with no ads. Logging workouts, the plan, the rest timer and your history are all free.
Not yet. Barbell Bowl is on Android first. Leave an email at the bottom of this page and you get one message the day it reaches iPhone.
No. Answer six questions and your first workout is ready. An email backup is optional and only there so a new phone gets your history back.
Nothing breaks. The next workout waits for you, because the plan moves by sequence, not by calendar. After 7 days or more away your first session back starts about 10 to 20 percent lighter, and normal weights return the workout after.
Tap Machine busy. Do it later moves that exercise to the end of the workout with the same weights, or you can swap to a ranked alternative that trains the same muscle with what is free.
When every working set reaches the top of its rep range, the next session adds the smallest step your gym can load. Fall short and the weight stays where it is, with one more rep as the target, until every set gets there.
Not in this version. This release is about training. Food logging is planned to return as meal photos you confirm yourself, with the numbers coming from a food database rather than a guess.
It is saved on your phone first and works with no signal. Nothing is sold, there are no ads and no tracking software. Ask and all of it is deleted.
Free on Android. Six questions, then your first workout. No account needed.
On iPhone? Leave an email and you get one message the day it ships there.