Four Leading Options For Personal Trainer Programming Software
Track Your Fitness Clients’ Exercise Programs and Personal Data Using These Trainer Recommended Platforms
As fitness entrepreneurs, we are always looking for the perfect personal training app or software to keep track of our clients’ workout plans and make more efficient use of our programming time. After interviewing several of our experienced trainers from DIAKADI Fitness in San Francisco, we gathered this list of their best recommendations for personal training software and ‘why’. Streamline your time spent on programming, as well as upgrade your professional customer experience overall.
1. Bridge Athletic
Pricing:
$30 per month
Why Choose This Software?:
Their partnership with EXOS provides familiar exercise lingo, prescriptions, and workout breakdowns for those with an EXOS training background
Extensive exercise database linked to EXOS
Features:
App included
Exercise library with the ability to add your own videos and pictures
The App allows you to add FMS data for clients and track their progression
Training Engine
Uses an algorithm to produce a workout program based on specific data from each client
Differentiators:
Easy to construct programs
App allows communication between client and trainer
Low price point
Wish List for Improvements:
Accounting and/or Invoicing features
More extensive tracking features, such as graphs and focused reports
Make the interface more user friendly
Pricing:
1 time fee of $8
Why Choose This Software?:
Nebo is more of an advanced notes application than training software, but it allows for total customizability
It is perfect for trainers who use an Ipad and/or Apple pencil to organize and track client progressions and workouts
Features:
As this is not a software made directly for training it does not contain an exercise library, but it allows you to add exercise pictures and other tracking or programming documents
Fully customizable and brand-able
Low price point
Differentiators:
Perfect for on the fly changes during training sessions
Quick and easy way to jot down notes or create completely customized documents for client programming
Improvements:
It would be nice to have the option to integrate videos
3. Trainerize
Pricing:
$40 per month for up to 15 clients
$36 per month with a 1 year commitment
One time fee of $100 to add you own branding
Why Choose This Software?:
Trainerize offers a user friendly interface which is easy to navigate for new trainers
It has the ability to integrate and edit YouTube videos for customized exercise demonstrations
Features:
Easy to use App
Exercise Library
Auto search feature which searches trainerize library as well as YouTube
Integrate client’s MyFitnessPal account or other nutrition tracking apps
Invoicing (add on feature)
Differentiators:
PR tracking for individual lifts
User friendly app interface
Improvements:
Ability for clients to upload videos in order to check their form for an exercise
Adding a “Drop Set” option to the set/rep scheme
4. Train Heroic
Pricing:
$45 per month for unlimited clients
Why Choose This Software?:
Programming features are integrated with KILO
Easy to track lift progression over time
Very efficient customer service options
Features:
Easy to use App
Add your own branding and logo to the App
Great exercise library with the ability to add your own photos or videos
Accounting and Invoicing features available
Differentiators:
Trainers with a KILO background will find this software easy to use and complementary to their training style
Customer support allows quick and easy text or call support
Improvements:
App forces you to log in and out for each individual client