Setup Guide

Connect Gym Navigator to Claude

Claude is where this connector feels most at home. Custom connectors live right in Settings, and once you've added Gym Navigator it shows up in every conversation. No extensions, no config files. You paste one URL and you're done.

Connector URL (Pro, Max, Team or Enterprise) https://coach.gymnavigator.com/mcp

Setup, step by step

  1. 1
    Open Settings, then Connectors

    Click your profile, open Settings, and find the Connectors tab. Hit Add custom connector. This option is on Claude Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans. The free tier doesn't expose custom connectors yet.

  2. 2
    Paste the connector URL

    Drop in https://coach.gymnavigator.com/mcp as the remote MCP server URL and confirm. Claude reaches out, reads the list of tools, and registers them. Takes a couple of seconds.

  3. 3
    Approve access (and sign in to save)

    Approve the connector when Claude asks. Want your training journal saved between chats? Sign in with Google so the coach can write to your own Drive. Skip it and Claude just keeps the journal in the conversation's memory instead.

  4. 4
    Ask it to do something

    Try "Build me a 4-day upper/lower split and save it" or "Find a barbell back exercise." Claude calls the right tool, then hands you Gym Navigator links for the full guides.

Good to know

  • Custom connectors aren't on the free plan. You need at least Pro.
  • On mobile, connectors you added on desktop sync automatically. You don't add them twice.
  • If a tool call ever stalls, remove and re-add the connector. It re-reads the tool list fresh.

What to ask once it's connected

The connector exposes eight tools. You never call them by name, you just talk, and Claude picks the right one. Each tool has its own page with example prompts:

Search the exercise library Find exercises by muscle, equipment, or free-text and get straight to the form guide. Get one exercise in detail Pull a single exercise with its coaching cue and demo video. Find a gym Search 32,000+ gym listings by city and open the one you want. Search training articles Pull Gym Navigator articles to back up advice with a real source. Save a workout plan Turn a designed session into an interactive timer page you can train from. Log a workout Record a finished session to your own journal. Read your workout history Pull past sessions back from your journal, with an optional date window. Track your progress Compute volume, estimated 1RM, and trend for one exercise or overall.

Using a different app?

The same URL works everywhere MCP does. Here are the other guides:

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That's it

Paste the URL into Claude and ask it to build your first plan.

https://coach.gymnavigator.com/mcp