Getting Started

Requirements

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

Two Ways to Start

💳 Paid Entry (0.5 SOL)

Open your first gym for 0.5 SOL. This gives you a Level 1 Garage with 6 bench slots, full access to every feature of the game as you progress, and immediate eligibility to withdraw $GAINZ once you’ve earned enough. 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 almost the entire game for free — rip packs, bench athletes, claim $GAINZ, recruit trainers, fuse athletes, and compete for real SOL — with just these limits until you convert:

Your gyms cap at Level 6 — the full mid-game (Smoothie Bar, GNZ Nutrition, Trainers, and the Fusion Lab all unlock by L6)
Withdraw up to what you’ve put in. Your lifetime withdrawals are capped at a 1:1 break-even of your contribution (SOL spent + $GAINZ deposited from your wallet). You can always recover what you put in — converting lets you earn beyond it.
Enter the Spartacus Arena and compete in weight-class seasons for SOL prizes (arena entry costs RR)
No Daily Locker and no Referral system (paid-only)
Buy Roid Rage with SOL and open additional gyms (each also caps at L6)

When you’re ready to unlock everything, pay 0.75 SOL to convert your account. All your progress — gyms, athletes, balances — carries over exactly as-is. From that moment on you can upgrade to L7–L8, withdraw freely (no break-even cap, so you can earn net-positive), claim the Daily Locker, and earn 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	100
🟢 Uncommon	Squat King	300
🔵 Rare	Arnold	500
🟣 Epic	Samson	2,000
🟡 Legendary	Hercules	6,000
🔴 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.

🚀 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 the trainer system