Top 5 Apps for Personal Trainers
If you are a veteran certified personal trainer or a newbie trainer, finding the best apps to manage your business is essential.
The more you automate tedious tasks from your everyday life, the more time and energy you'll have to motivate and train your clients to reach their goals. You'll also have more time to advertise and reach out to possible new clients.
With the millions of applications now available, it can be daunting to know which ones are best suited for personal trainers. No worries, in this article, I have done all the research for you.
These are the essential apps for personal trainers to manage their client's workouts, assessments, and progression. And a way to collect payments, train via video chat and manage your business expenses.
MyFitnessPal - Calorie counter and diet plan app
For iOS, Android, Web
MyFitnessPal is the #1 nutrition app on the market for as long as I can remember. With more than 6 million food items in its database and micronutrient, macronutrients and, portion sizes information. MyfitnessPal is the best app available today.
The best feature for personal trainers is that you can see what your clients are eating. Get your clients to use MyFitnessPal to see how many calories they are eating as most people undervalue how many calories they eat on a daily basis. The more you can get your client to pay attention to what they are eating, the better results they will get.
Other great features:
- Set weight loss or gain goals, and the app automatically charges your calorie and macro goals.
- Edit the protein, carbs, and fats intake percentage for each meal.
- Set custom meals, so you don't always have to look up each item of your meals.
- Scan food barcodes to get the macros
Honorable mentions - Lose It!, MyPlate
The Training Notebook - Personal Trainer Client Management Software
The Training Notebook is an easy-to-use app for personal trainers to manage all their clients' info, including assessment forms, workouts, and before and after photos.
You can build an unlimited amount of workouts and assessments for all your clients, and all your clients will have access to all the exercises and assessments in an instant with their own free personal app, The Client Notebook.
The Training Notebook's home page gives you a central hub where you can easily access all of your client's workout regimens, training schedule, contact information, and assessments. Clients can also view their scheduled sessions with you through their app and send their trainer text, video, or photo messages.
What personal trainers love about, The Training Notebook and The Client Notebook is the simplicity. After opening the app, you are just three taps away from building a workout or an assessment. Trainers and clients can edit their exercises or assessments anytime and add before and after photos to their profiles. Trainers can access their accounts via Android, iOS, and the web, unlike some other apps on the market.
Try The Training Notebook for free for 15-Days today.
Mint - Budget and spend tracking app
For iOS, Android, Web
As a personal trainer and business owner, it is crucial to keep track of your finances. You need to track how much money is coming in and how much is going towards business expenses. Mint is an app that personal trainers find particularly useful for business for things like budgeting, creating goals, and collects all your financial accounts in one place. Mint's dashboard gives you an overall picture of your finances on just one screen.
A few more reasons to use Mint
- Monthly summary via email of all spending and savings
- Set monthly savings goals
- Mint is also excellent for tracking your credit score
PayPal - Easy way to receive or send money
Although it is possible to get by with one online payment method, many customers prefer to use their favorite payment methods. Popular services like PayPal, Square, and Apple Pay, customers can check out on various websites without having to spend time adding all their payment and address information when paying. These services create a more seamless and convenient experience for them. The more your visitors come to expect this kind of convenience, the less likely they are to bother with a website that makes them do the extra work.
When it comes to accepting payments online, it's essential to offer customers various payment options. Offering multiple billing and online payment options increases satisfaction by improving customer experience.
It's always a good idea to explore your options before deciding on which payment service or services to use for your business. A few popular payment methods are Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Square.
- Paypal is extremely popular; most people use it regularly.
- It is easy to set up and use
- Works internationally
- Paypal has an excellent security track record
- Your clients may already be familiar with PayPal.
- Your clients don't need a PayPal account to pay you.
- You can create and send invoices through your account.
- PayPal's fees are less than many merchant accounts
- You can set up recurring payments.
Zoom - Remote conference and webinar software
Zoom is perfect for hosting live online sessions easily. This is the most popular software with personal trainers to train clients remotely.
Once you're all set up with your Zoom account and have figured out which classes you're going to offer and when- Let clients know you're going online. Next, you should send an e-mail to your client list letting them know that you're now offering online classes. Don't forget to include instructions on how they can sign up for each of your classes going forward!
If you're using Zoom Pro you'll be able to share a replay, this is a great way to reuse workouts and send replays to clients so that they can revisit a class between sessions. You can also sell these videos for a few dollars on your site to people who couldn't attend.
If you're just training one-on-one clients Skype, WhatsApp, FB Messenger, Instagram video chat are great options too because it's free.
Recap
Online personal training is here to stay and using these apps will help you deliver a seamless personal training experience to your clients. Remember that working out at home is relatively new to your clients and we need to remove any obstacles they may have to consistently train with you.
T-Notebook Founder
Coach Hector Sanchez
