ABC Trainerize

Avantages

What I like most about Trainerize is that you can have a full relationship with a coach/client all through the app. It is easy to use and has a lot of good features to utilize as a coach and client. It also links with several different tracking apps to track nutrition, weight and its nice to have all your information in one spot.

Inconvénients

I don't really have any complaints about Trainerize or anything that I don't even like about it.

Avantages

I like the videos of each move. To make sure you are doing it correctly!

Inconvénients

It is a little confusing when you first start. I would spend at least 30 minutes walking yourself through the app before you just dive in!

Avantages

Trainerize was the first software I used to train my clients outside of Apple Numbers. I loved that each client could have their own section of the app and everything was saved to them via their profile.

Inconvénients

As Trainerize grew and they become part of the ABC family. The shift to nutrition became a main focus and the training aspect fell behind. Neither section was working very well after awhile, which left the software riddled with bugs.

Avantages

User friendly and good workout plannning

Inconvénients

Nutrition macro planning. Couldn’t set up training and non training plans

Avantages

I liked ABC Trainerize because it allowed me to establish my online coaching services.

Inconvénients

What I liked least about ABC Trainerize is the excessive fees for add on services.

Avantages

Pricing and navigation to get to the workouts .

Inconvénients

No visual demonstration and too much to download.

Avantages

I love this app. It’s convenient and easy to use to
Build programs and clients.

Inconvénients

The fact that payouts are only through stripe and we don’t have other options to receive our pay.

Avantages

I liked its intuitive ease of use. It didn’t have much of a learning curve to get used to.

Inconvénients

I wish there was a free version for someone just getting into digitally running their personal training.

Avantages

Its a low cost option for a new studio or studio that doesnt have many software needs.

Inconvénients

It's not user friendly, lots of glitches and doesn't have much functionality.

Avantages

Very little at this point, although clients seem to like the modules.

Inconvénients

Very buggy and lack of useful products, and pricing model.

Avantages

It’s easy to use. I like the payment process.

Inconvénients

They don’t have some features that PT Distinction has. .

Avantages

Very easy to use, create programs and workouts for my clients.
easy to follow program by my clients

Inconvénients

No ai Option to create workouts and meal plans.

Avantages

I enjoy the communication between myself and my trainer through the app. It helps motivate and make adjustments. I think that as I use this app, I learn to get better with it.

Inconvénients

The standard preloaded messages from my trainer, I can tell it's not the person I typically work with. I don't love how it can be very difficult to change from 1 cup, to 1/2 a cup of whatever the food is that I'm eating.
My trainer has told me to track all of my food, the app doesn't make it easy for this.

Avantages

I love the addition of group bookings that has allowed me to offer more plans and services overall to increase my revenue.

Inconvénients

You have to pay extra for a lot of basic features which makes the cost a bit higher for newer coaches.

Avantages

Amazing platform to connect personal trainers with clients. Helped the clients in tracking their workouts with ease while allowing the trainer to customize, manage and monitor the progress. We can track and monitor almost everything required to see the progress.

Inconvénients

Nothing much bad with the platform. It's a premium and effective way to train and manage clients. The only thing that can be better is the pricing.

Avantages

I use to make everything so complicated.. now its been made easy for me

Inconvénients

The learning curve. It took a minute to understand everything thats going on

Avantages

Trainerize allows me to create programs and monitor the success of my clients with ease and from the palm of my hand.

Inconvénients

The increasing cost for varying numbers of clients can be a little frustrating. I guess if business is good,

Avantages

Has everything you need to run a successful gym business

Inconvénients

The price for it is best for commercial gyms

Avantages

With Trainerize we have a wide range of features that allows to manage clients, workout plans. habits, a several other metrics either being a single PT, gym owner or boutique studio. The delivery automations are a plus to alow scaling, and the branded app addon is quite inexpensive.

Inconvénients

The pricing can become a bit high in the beginning if you need several paid addons such as integration of payments wich give us a fee on top of the processors fee, on demand video coaching , Advanced nutrition and branded app. Also is only available in English.

Avantages

This apps makes my work life super easy, easy to access and easy to handle. Thanks to the builder

Inconvénients

So far nothing much negative things about this app, lets see if there anything comes up.

Avantages

The programs are easy to build, and the progression builder is very helpful for building out multiple week programs with overload.Client onboarding is simple, and you have the ability to customize intake forms, messages, etc.Easy to add your own exercises with videos. Built in library is extensive.Easy to make supersets and add rest periods.

Inconvénients

When it comes to nutrition coaching, I've yet to find ANY app that works as well as the google sheets I created. There's no history of what the previous week's macros were. The app doesn't let you select a calorie level and then autopopulate the macros, you have to input macros until you get to the calories you want. There's no way to select a protein requirement (i.e. 0.8g/lb, 1g/lb, 1.2g/lb etc) or a carb/fat ratio. You only have preprogrammed tolerances of 10 or 20 or 30% so good luck coaching a bodybuilding client where you need +/- 2%.There's no charts at all correlating calories, BMR, body weight, etc.And then the "meal planner" that they charge you $45/month for is a complete joke. You can't set it to a client's individual goals. You have to use pre-programmed calories and macro ratios. There's no ability to deselect a wide variety of foods (just some basics like gluten or dairy.) There's no ability to select only certain foods. Most meals take 30 minutes or more to prepare. I've found it to be completely useless.The goals and habits are ok, but they can't link to any metrics, they have to be updated manually to show any progress, so it's all completely arbitrary.When it comes to programming, there's no way to program drop sets. Also, the instructions for the training week do not automatically come up when a client starts a session. I've had to go tell each client individually where to find instructions.

Avantages

The app was really easy to use as a client of a personal trainer

Inconvénients

After I was done working with the personal trainer I was going to try to use it on my own but it was not that easy to set up

Avantages

What I liked the most about this platform is the ease and comfort of being able to access my personalized training plan at any time and place. Being able to take my workout with me on my mobile device is really convenient and has helped me stay in shape even when I'm away from home or traveling.

Inconvénients

Being a user I must say that one of the aspects that I liked the least about this platform is that it is a bit complicated to navigate at first. It took me a bit of time to get used to the organization and structure of the app.

Avantages

The client profiling is good and consistent

Inconvénients

The creation of the workouts could be more flexible to allow coaches to creat more engaging workouts different than traditional methods used in the fitness industry

Avantages

Initially the set up video were extremely helpful and something trainerize was considerable easier to negotiate than other systems I tried. The mobile app is brilliant and syncs with lots of other systems meaning data is collected all in one place. My clients have also found the app to be very user friendly and easy to use. I like how the calendar features allows you to drag and move item to different days - again a great feature. The customer service has also been very help in answering any questions, they also add extra reading links on the topic which i think is above and beyond.

Inconvénients

It doesn't sync with Samsung health yet but they say this is in development. When comparing clients workouts in the progress tab it doesn't list the workout in the correct exercise order which is a little frustrating when trying to review clients progress. It doesn't use averages in the progress tab for nutrition or bodyweight - I hope they add this as I have to use a google sheet to personally calculate this at present.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi choisir ABC Trainerize 

Pourquoi passer à ABC Trainerize

Avantages

Easy to use, easy to create workouts (and great flexibility to adjust workouts on the fly), many automated features, excellent client monitoring (including a new push notifications system).

Inconvénients

Crashes, losing data, won't sync what counts, requires client to have internet connection, poor communication from customer service that responds to, but does not solve, problems.

Avantages

I feel that this software goes an extra mile when it comes to tailoring and personalizing fitness programming for clients, but ALSO the trainers. In addition, the quality of the videos are excellent. You can choose between the full explanation video or a short loop of the exercise method. I also love that you can add personalized exercises and video for your own clients.

Inconvénients

I wish there were more pre-made programming available. However, I want to note that the detail and quality of the available programming is excellent.

Avantages

It's easy to create workouts in the formats that I want. The exercise demo videos included in the Trainerize library are great, but I also have the option to use videos from YouTube. This gives me the flexibility I need. It's easy for clients to log their workouts which is a huge help to me in tracking their progress and keeping them accountable. The messaging system is a convenient and efficient way to keep in touch with clients. Customer support is very responsive. The team at Trainerize is regularly updating and improving the functionality of the software.

Inconvénients

Occasionally an update will change or phase out a feature that I like. There are some minor issues, like the lack of a simple way for clients to log the resistance bands they use or that there's no way in the app for them to see notes from previous times they've done a particular workout.

Avantages

I really like how there are video demos of all the exercises - and if there is not an exercise in the list that fits what you are looking for, you can use a YouTube video and create your own. It's user friendly to the clients as well, and they can track their progress in various ways. They can track their weights used for each exercise, refer to weight they have used for that exercise in the past, and then when they finish a workout, the app tells them if they have set a new personal best (and it tells me too!). I was also able to upload nutrition information and set macro goals, and see their progress if they link My Fitness Pal. I also appreciate how I get a push notification when a client completes a workout, sets a personal best, or messages me - eliminating the need to constantly open the app for updates. It sends them reminders to do their workouts as well.

Inconvénients

I feel like it took me about a month to figure out how to create workouts and have them appear to the client how I wanted them to. There are also features for the client that I don't think they are aware of, and would be helpful if there was a mini tutorial they could go through when they get started (tracking weights, substituting an exercise, etc.) I also had one client who said she had to take the app off her phone because it was slowing things down/wasn't working - but that could have been an issue with the phone.

Avantages

Trainerize allows me to have all my online personal training in one place. I am able to check in with clients, assign programs, video tutorials, cardio and more. Daily habit tracking is a huge feature!

Inconvénients

There are some bugs in the app that happen often. Sometimes when I add a client workout or body Stat it will also add to other client profiles. It crashes often.

Avantages

The relatively easy “plug & play” app that plays a vital role in elevating and improving the standard of health/wellness globally. In comparison with other similar platforms in the market, this would and should be a natural choice for anyone wanting an accountability partner included to however one has designed your life. It manages to eliminate the fear of starting a business from scratch, and has a range of different metrics, features, scheduling , support and even scaling on an existing client if anyone decides to do so.

This is certainly a platform I’d recommend to anyone whether be it a business or personal interest in improving their overall management of this particular area in life. Thank you!

Inconvénients

To be honest, there are tons of areas that can be further improved. However, this has served well enough with its current functionality and like any experience with anything that works, it only works if you do. So far, I’m happy with the limited features of the app and nothing that concerning has become an area of dislike.

Avantages

This software is fantastic! I have been a user for the past 7 years and I love it. It makes my life as a coach much easier and way more organized. My clients also enjoy all features such training programs with videos and instructions as well as meal plan with food tracking. Most client connect trainerize with their apple watch and have everything in one place. I noticed my clients and even me are way more accountable to each other and especially those who work online with me.

Inconvénients

There’s anything I would sayI don’t like. There’s no app is perfect and sometimes you need to ensure you have the app updated to see changes in your plan. Trainerize is constantly improving and bringing new features.

Avantages

Trainerize is probably the most affordable option for new trainers. Programming and PROGRESSING workouts is easy enough, as well as organizing your exercise video library. It has a great messaging system and integrates into a lot of other products like Apple Watch, Fitbit, MyFitnessPal, Slack, and they keep adding more. The client gets a daily to-do list with all the things you programmed such as workouts, habits, tracking, cardio, and nutrition.

Inconvénients

Although you can create program templates that include workouts, messages, and measurements.... I wish you could "stack" program templates. For example, give a few clients the same workout program but pick and choose which messages get automatically sent (or reschedule ONLY the messages for example). And although Trainerize offers a lot of integrations, I wish they had a membership portal with forms built in. (like PTDisctinction offers)

Avantages

The exercise builder is my favourite part. I can upload whether it's reps and sets or an interval or a circuit.
What I love most about it, is you can upload videos for the client to check if they're not sure.
I left trainerize for a year and tried other providers but non compared when it came to actually building a user / client friendly experience.

Inconvénients

I would like to be able to run the interval training on the desktop site and not just the mobile app. That way it can also work for clients without compatible phones.

Avantages

Easily drop in YouTube videos. Creating master programs is amazing because you can copy and customize templates easily. The mobile app seems to be easy for clients to use. I like the advanced progression capabilities, its easy to change reps and sets, and descriptions on one screen.

Inconvénients

I am a climbing coach, so the layout of exercises and drills doesn't work as well in Trainerize since each drill needs more detail and some need extra video support. The customization of this could be better. The calendar feature could be better.

Avantages

It addresses most of the fitness programming and online coaching needs while allowing integration with other best in class platforms for an overall comprehensive system. (Still further to go, but the development team seems open to addressing these needs)

Inconvénients

Well, it isn't perfect, and it isn't all things (but nothing is, so to be nit picky)
The big items are:
- the integrated pay system only allows one package or product, no add-on upsells to a pre-existing service
- there is not an integrated scheduling system (yet)
- we cannot assign Master program and a Custom program to a client

Avantages

The exercises library is very extensive. It's very rare that we can't find what we need. Even then, we can add whatever exercise we need from an external source.

Inconvénients

The ease of use on the client's side is not optimal. Often, we have to explain to clients certain functionalities. It is not as intuitive as it could be.

Avantages

I have been using Trainerize for over 3 years. It has helped me build my business. Being a personal trainer my wife and I were able to move everything online vs in a gym. Freeing us to train more people and in less time. We can create programs, see the client's activity level, see how often they are working out. Trainerize also has a built-in messenger which is great since it is separated from our personal text messaging. I looked into and tried other programs similar to Trainerize but Trainerize, in my opinion, was so much better than the competition. Not to mention my ideas were heard on improvements to make and things to change. They are always coming out with updates and making things better.

Inconvénients

I don't really have many complaints about Trainerize. Typically if I had a problem with the software or needed something to be done that it could not currently do, then the developers would work with me on making those improvements. It has been amazing to see the updates they have come out with since I started with them. They really want the user and client experience to be great and they want you to be successful!

Avantages

Data available.
Once the system is learned it is very powerful

Inconvénients

Workflow suffers. When training strictly online weight selection is tied for number one in importance with technique. Where you time is squander is with clients who have to have their weights added to guide them. They must be entered for every workout. We currently use our workout builder we have designed in excel to program the training and then have to transfer those numbers. We use a formula or boolean statement to process this. If trainerize could allow for weight percentages that are based of a weight we define and then define that percentage for each individual exercise your time per client will be cut in half. We haved used this program strictly online with high level athletes and your every day gym goers. The price per minute of your time is slightly over breaking even. I would love to talk more about how we use our builder and trainerize togther to help come up with a solution.

Also there is no list of new exercises that are imported. I have filmed exercises only to see a month later trainerize has their own version.

Avantages

I love that Trainerize is constantly improving. I've been using it since 2017, and love the constant updates that makes running my online fitness business much easier! I love that they have a great exercise library, and still add to it often.

Inconvénients

It doesn't allow for other apps to run at the same time. When tracking a workout, if you leave the app to try to open a music app, the tracking stops. The timer should run in the background. Also, it crashes a lot.

Avantages

The trainerize app makes communicating with my online and in person clients a breeze. The library of exercises and templates saves me hours. And the constant upgrading and new features are constantly making the experience even better.

Inconvénients

There are some features I wish it had, but they are constantly improving and adding more features as users recommend changes.

Avantages

This is a low overhead cost for me. I can train clients from anywhere; without renting time/space out at a gym. I find extreme value for my money as I can train multiple people at once. Trainerize keeps client messaging solely on the app. This does not mix in with my personal text messaging.

Inconvénients

I need to upload multiple meal plans for a client. A client has a low carbohydrate/high protein day followed by a carbohydrate loaded day.

Avantages

I love how I'm able to visually see the progress my clients are making, easily check the macros that they are hitting while the app links to MyFitnessPal, and deliver workout programs that my clients can access

Inconvénients

Sometimes it gets buggy and the nutrition changes do not load for my clients. And also some of my clients report having difficulty with notifications and/or receiving messages

Avantages

I love trainerize. It has really simplified the coaching experience with my clients on the gym floor and remotely.

Inconvénients

I struggle to understand why updates take a long time to produce.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à ABC Trainerize

Avantages

So many things! I love the way you can build workouts and easily implement then into clients plans. Love that it tracks your progress from workout to workout. Also love that it graphs body weight, stats, has pictures, steps, habits and even a meal plan option. I seriously can go on and on about the app :)

Inconvénients

I wish that there was a notes section by each exercise so you can add in a lil something about that exercise. Like if you used dumbbells or cables. Also when messaging it would be great if there was a send button and that the messages didn't send by hitting enter.

Avantages

This software is great to write workout programs. There are great demo videos for clients and the option to import videos from YouTube is very useful. The charts showing my clients' progress are great snapshots that help me keep my clients' progressing towards their goals.

Inconvénients

What I like least about this software is the lack of weekly averages for weigh-ins and weekly averages for calories and macros. Right now I am hand-calculating both of those and it's a lot of extra work.

The second thing would be to make the timer automatically start counting down upon the completion of an exercise. This is a feature that my clients love from other apps and miss in this app.

The ability to make edits to clients' programming via the mobile app is almost nil. I always have to get on a computer to change anything which can be a hassle when I'm on the go.

Avantages

Practical, reliable, intuitive.
It allows to keep all my trainees, plans and workouts stored and ready to access and use with ease.

Inconvénients

It can be slow to process input on some devices.

Avantages

I love how easy it is to create programs for clients and check in with them. They truly take the time to listen to the users to create a great app.

Inconvénients

The only thing that I find that I don’t like is that programs can only start on a Monday. I also wish there was a way to prorate a month if someone signs up on a Wednesday but their monthly programs doesn’t start until a certain date.

Avantages

Trainerize was great for us in the beginning with less volume of clients. It gave us the ability to upload our meal plans and build workouts. I love that it has workout videos and exercises loaded into the app for when you need some inspiration for new client workouts.

Inconvénients

It was a bit outdated compared to other training apps I have seen. Only allowed for one meal plan upload at a time and was always in a document format. Would love to see this software integrate with a meal plan building software.

Avantages

Tracking capabilities for my clients and myself. Easily accessible from both ends. Very customizable. Constant tweaks and new new features.

Inconvénients

A little buggy when I first started using it about 4 years ago but it's been constantly tweaked and fixed.