Getting Started

Requirements

👛 A Solana wallet (Phantom, Solflare, or any Solana-compatible wallet)
💰 $20 in SOL for your first gym (or try Free-to-Play — see below)

Two Ways to Start

💳 Paid Entry ($20)

Open your first gym for $20, paid in SOL at the live quote. This gives you a Level 1 Garage with 6 bench slots and full access to every feature of the game as you progress. SOL is only required for the initial gym purchase and Roid Rage (RR) purchases — once you’re in, everything else in the game runs on $GAINZ or RR (and RR itself is purchased with SOL, so SOL continues to enter the economy indirectly through the RR shop).

🆓 Free-to-Play

Not ready to commit? Pick Free-to-Play on the login screen instead. You’ll get the same starter kit (free Common athlete + 200 $GAINZ + 60 $RR) and can play the game all the way to Level 8 — rip packs, bench athletes, claim $GAINZ, recruit Coaches and Specialists, fuse athletes, and run the Daily Locker.

There’s no level ceiling on Season 2. The limits that remain until you convert:

No Spartacus Arena entry. You can view every leaderboard, but competing for the SOL prize pool is for full members.
No Referral system (paid-only)
Everything else is open: all 8 gym levels, the Daily Locker, additional gyms, and every mid- and late-game system

When you’re ready, pay $20 in SOL to convert your account. All your progress — gyms, athletes, balances — carries over exactly as-is. Converting unlocks the Arena and referral rewards.

🎓 The Bench Bro Tutorial

After opening your first gym, you’ll meet Bench Bro — your personal tutorial coach. He walks you through the basics and gives you a free Common athlete plus 200 $GAINZ to rip your first athlete pack. Follow his steps to learn the core loop: place athletes, claim earnings, rip packs, repeat.

🏋️ Athletes

Each athlete has a rarity and base power that determines how much $GAINZ they generate per epoch:

Rarity	Athlete	Base Power
⚪ Common	Bench Bro	200
🟢 Uncommon	Squat King	500
🔵 Rare	Arnold	1,000
🟣 Epic	Samson	2,500
🟡 Legendary	Hercules	6,500
🔴 Mythic	Zeus	20,000
🏛️ Exalted	Titan	50,000

🏋️ Placing Athletes on Benches

Two ways to bench an athlete:

From the gym floor — click an empty bench slot, then select the athlete you want to place from the popup
From the Roster tab — select an athlete from your inventory and use bulk-fill buttons (Fill This Gym / Fill All / Replace Lower) to place multiple athletes across one or more gyms in a single action

Once placed, athletes begin generating $GAINZ every epoch (15 minutes). There is a 🔥 warm-up period before they reach full earning power (see Gameplay Mechanics).

💰 Claiming Earnings

$GAINZ accumulate every epoch. Click the claim button to collect your earnings. ⏰ Unclaimed epochs cap at 32 (8 hours), so check in at least three times a day to avoid missing emissions. 🧑‍💼 Gym Manager (1,125 RR for 7 days) handles claiming automatically — and pausing the pass freezes the countdown so you get the full 7 days of actual usage.

🌱 Want a Head Start? The Rookie Pack

The SOL store carries one pack built specifically for new players: the Rookie Pack — 0.1 SOL for 3 Epic+ athletes (Epic 69.5% / Legendary 25% / Mythic 5% / Exalted 0.5% per card), with at least 1 Legendary guaranteed and a +1,000 RR bonus. Normally an Epic+ floor lives behind a Level 8 gym and a 4,500 RR pass — the Rookie Pack hands it to you on day one.

The catch that keeps it fair: it’s limited to 4 packs per account (the allowance reset when the price dropped to 0.1 SOL, so early buyers get 4 more). Your remaining allotment is shown right on the pack. Grab them early, bench the pulls, and you’ve skipped weeks of grinding toward your first serious lineup.

🚀 Next Steps

📦 Buy more athlete packs to fill your benches (200 $GAINZ each)
⬆️ Start upgrading your gym to unlock new features and more bench slots
🥤 Save up for supplement packs (25 $GAINZ) to boost individual athletes
🧢 Work toward Level 5 to unlock Trainers — 🧢 Coaches (global power boost) and 🩺 Specialists (per-gym perks)