Ladder Launches Nutrition — Expanding the #1 Strength Training App Into an All-in-One Destination for Strength and Smart Fueling

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct 27, 2025--

Ladder, the #1 strength-training app on iOS, today announced the launch of Ladder Nutrition, an integrated nutrition experience that brings training and fueling together in one app.

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Built directly from member feedback, Ladder Nutrition simplifies eating for performance with effortless food logging, clear macro insights, and AI-powered personalization — making healthy, intentional eating simple and sustainable.

“We know that success requires a plan — both in the gym and in the kitchen,” said Ladder CEO Greg Stewart. “Ladder has helped hundreds of thousands of members build strength and stay consistent with their workouts, and we’re now bringing that same structure and motivation to how they fuel their goals.”

Included with every Ladder membership, Ladder Nutrition offers:

Driven by members, designed for real results

“Nutrition was the next logical step for Ladder, and our members were pleading with us for it,” Stewart said. “They wanted a simple, smarter way to connect what they eat with how they perform — and that’s exactly what Ladder Nutrition delivers.”

“Nutrition and working out serve the same purpose of me staying healthy. I struggle to focus on two things at once — if I had it all together it would remind me that one doesn’t work without the other,” said one Ladder member in survey feedback.

Another member commented, “It’s the perfect marriage of my two priorities. Having both nutrition and fitness in one centralized app lets me compare calories-in and calories-out without switching between apps.”

The launch of Ladder Nutrition comes after months of feedback and beta testing with Ladder members, who have praised its speed, simplicity, accuracy, and the ability to have workouts and nutrition working together in one place.

A natural next step in Ladder’s mission

Ladder has become the leading destination for strength training, delivering world-class workout programming, expert coaching, and accountability to more than 300,000 paid members worldwide. The addition of Ladder Nutrition marks the next evolution in the company’s vision: to make sustainable fitness simple, structured and accessible.

“Training is only half the equation,” said Ladder Coach Kelly Matthews. “When your workouts and nutrition work together, you recover faster, build more muscle, and see progress that lasts. Ladder Nutrition gives members the structure and tools to fuel their body, their workouts, and their results.”

Ladder Nutrition is now available to all Ladder members at no additional cost and free to try during Ladder’s 7-day trial. Download Ladder in the App Store or visit joinladder.com to start your free trial.

About Ladder

Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Ladder is the #1 strength training app for people who are serious about fitness. Ladder makes it easy to plan and maintain a consistent strength training routine. With new workouts each week from expert coaches, Ladder members can follow progressive workout plans in a variety of modalities including Pilates, HIIT, bodybuilding, hybrid training, kettlebells, yoga, prenatal and more. Ladder now includes Ladder Nutrition, a nutrition tracking system that lets members log food in seconds, track macros, and fuel smarter for better results.

Ladder maintains a 4.9 rating on the App Store across more than 100,000 reviews, and has been recognized by Apple with its Editors’ Choice award. Take a free quiz to find your ideal training plan and start your 7-day free trial today—no credit card required. Visit joinladder.com.

Ladder — Your Workouts. Your Nutrition. Your Plan.

Ladder Launches Nutrition — Expanding the #1 Strength Training App Into an All-in-One Destination for Strength and Smart Fueling

Ladder Launches Nutrition — Expanding the #1 Strength Training App Into an All-in-One Destination for Strength and Smart Fueling

Ladder Launches Nutrition — Expanding the #1 Strength Training App Into an All-in-One Destination for Strength and Smart Fueling

Ladder Launches Nutrition — Expanding the #1 Strength Training App Into an All-in-One Destination for Strength and Smart Fueling

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Donald Trump is set to meet Thursday at the White House with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, whose political party is widely considered to have won 2024 elections rejected by then-President Nicolás Maduro before the United States captured him in an audacious military raid this month.

Less than two weeks after U.S. forces seized Maduro and his wife at a heavily guarded compound in Caracas and brought them to New York to stand trial on drug trafficking charges, Trump will host the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Machado, having already dismissed her credibility to run Venezuela and raised doubts about his stated commitment to backing democratic rule in the country.

“She’s a very nice woman,” Trump told Reuters in an interview about Machado. “I’ve seen her on television. I think we’re just going to talk basics.”

The meeting comes as Trump and his top advisers have signaled their willingness to work with acting President Delcy Rodríguez, who was Maduro’s vice president and along with others in the deposed leader's inner circle remain in charge of day-to-day governmental operations.

Rodríguez herself has adopted a less strident position toward Trump and his “America First” policies toward the Western Hemisphere, saying she plans to continue releasing prisoners detained under Maduro — a move reportedly made at the behest of the Trump administration. Venezuela released several Americans this week.

Trump, a Republican, said Wednesday that he had a “great conversation” with Rodríguez, their first since Maduro was ousted.

“We had a call, a long call. We discussed a lot of things,” Trump told reporters. “And I think we’re getting along very well with Venezuela.”

In endorsing Rodríguez, Trump has sidelined Machado, who has long been a face of resistance in Venezuela. She had sought to cultivate relationships with Trump and key advisers like Secretary of State Marco Rubio among the American right wing in a political gamble to ally herself with the U.S. government. She also intends to have a meeting in the Senate on Thursday afternoon.

Despite her alliance with Republicans, Trump was quick to snub her following Maduro’s capture. Just hours afterward, Trump said of Machado that “it would be very tough for her to be the leader. She doesn’t have the support within or the respect within the country. She’s a very nice woman, but she doesn’t have the respect.”

Machado has steered a careful course to avoid offending Trump, notably after winning last year’s Nobel Peace Prize, which Trump coveted. She has since thanked Trump and offered to share the prize with him, a move that has been rejected by the Nobel Institute.

Machado’s whereabouts have been largely unknown since she went into hiding early last year after being briefly detained in Caracas. She briefly reappeared in Oslo, Norway, in December after her daughter received the Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf.

The industrial engineer and daughter of a steel magnate began challenging the ruling party in 2004, when the nongovernmental organization she co-founded, Súmate, promoted a referendum to recall then-President Hugo Chávez. The initiative failed, and Machado and other Súmate executives were charged with conspiracy.

A year later, she drew the anger of Chávez and his allies again for traveling to Washington to meet President George W. Bush. A photo showing her shaking hands with Bush in the Oval Office lives in the collective memory. Chávez considered Bush an adversary.

Almost two decades later, she marshaled millions of Venezuelans to reject Chávez’s successor, Maduro, for another term in the 2024 election. But ruling party-loyal electoral authorities declared him the winner despite ample credible evidence to the contrary. Ensuing anti-government protests ended in a brutal crackdown by state security forces.

Janetsky reported from Mexico City. AP Diplomatic Writer Matthew Lee in Washington contributed to this report.

FILE - U.S. President George Bush, right, meets with Maria Corina Machado, executive director of Sumate, a non-governmental organization that defends Venezuelan citizens' political rights, in the Oval Office of the White House, Washington, May 31, 2005. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

FILE - Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado gestures to supporters during a protest against President Nicolas Maduro the day before his inauguration for a third term, in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, file)