TrueCoach

TrueCoach is the best!

Commenti: This has been a phenomenal platform to grow my business on. I find the interface extremely manageable from the coaching side and from the client side as I program for myself using this software. Very easy to monitor results, communicate with clients, coordinated with payment plans, everything is really nicely integrated into one platform.

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I love how easy it is to organize a training plan for competitions, including book marking particular days and planning peaking, Deloads, etc.

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Has had some occasional glitches throughout the years but the customer service team has always been great about fixing any issues as they come up.

AMAZING PROGRAM!!! Clients love it and so do I!

Commenti: Overall I would definitely tell others in the industry that TrueCoach is a simple, effective and amazing product that will keep you engaged with your clients while keeping them accountable to you.

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TrueCoach was a godsend for me to keep training clients during the pandemic. I've never used an online platform for any of my training, but this made it easy for me to program for my clients' needs as well as keep them accountable. They have an extensive library of exercise videos, but you can also add your own or grab a link with youtube etc.- simply amazing! On the client side of things, the feedback I got was "simple to use"; "love the video demonstrations"; "love checking in". If my clients are happy, I'm happy!

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There was nothing I didn't like about this program. It met all my needs, which in turn met my clients' needs too :)

Great Interface but...

Commenti: All of my clients are individuals. I do zero group training. At first TrueCoach was great, but the more clients I get on the platform the more issues I have. Customer Service has been great at responding but only responding. Unfortunately problem resolution has been non-existent. And now TC has just increased the monthly cost. Unless something changes I am planning to migrate my clients over to a new platform, probably TrainHeroic.

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The best thing about TrueCoach is that the client-side interface is very simple and easy to use. From the coaching side it's also very simple to onboard a new client. The next best thing is its integration with MyFitnessPal.

Aspetti negativi:

1. There is no simple daily body weight reading input. You have to create a "metric" for daily body weight as a workaround. 2. The coaching apps have zero functionality besides allowing you to view activity and send messages. Any program changes or assignments need to be done from a web browser. The android coach app just doesn't work. I get zero notifications. On some clients trying to view activity results in a white screen and needing to force close the app to restart. 3. Some clients' videos and pictures do not load and I cannot see or view them. Customer Support says to tell clients to do XYZ instead of resolving the problem. 4. Not easy to shift working/rest days on a client calendar. Would like to insert a rest day that simply pushes all other days to the right, or delete a day. Much like inserting and deleting cells in Excel. 5. Not easy to change a work schedule for two clients on the same program. I.e. one wants to do MWF while the other wants to do MThSa. Template is created for MWF but then the second client needs manual adjustment on their calendar.

TrueCoach, a "true"value for coaches and trainers

Commenti: I've used TrueCoach for over a year now. Our program is a basketball academy and we use this for a multitude of check-ins and plans. Without TrueCoach, we would've had to do manual check-ins, video recordings through WhatsApp, etc. Now we can pretty much do everything on TrueCoach instead of using multiple platforms

Aspetti positivi:

The fact that you can customize plans for each client and also for large groups. It makes the user experience seemless

Aspetti negativi:

Sometimes setting the assigned dates are bit confusing. Additionally, I wish you can see the compliance rate of different groups instead only of ALL clients.

TrueCoach Software Review

Commenti: I just wanted to note that I own the company but do have two trainers that work with me. There was no option for independent contractors under the drop down menu in the previous section when asking about company size only "employees" and since they are not employees I chose myself as the answer for how many are in the company but there are two other individuals that train with me as independent contractors.

Aspetti positivi:

The customization of everything! I have used Trainerize in the past and I thought it was a little bit more on the playful/less serious side of training and that was not suited for me. I want the best software for my clients with the ability deliver a professional-level service. TrueCoach allows me to customize anything and everything that I need for my programming in the easiest way.

Aspetti negativi:

There is no option to charge for individual personal training sessions. I want to be able to customize all of my pricing for my clients and do invoicing through TrueCoach as a one-stop shop for my invoice and I can not do that right now with the current product/payment options. I talked with customer service and it looked like there was a way to do it if I would set up a recurring weekly plan and then do some other stuff but it all seemed confusing and I didn't want to test with my clients and find out I wasn't doing it correctly I want it to be very simple and something I can use with ease. Single session charges and customizable invoices for each month would be amazing! When plugging in for nutritional questions the top of the title still says "workout" or something training-related. It would be good if that could be customized. I would also like the colors customized to fit my logo. I do not enjoy the purple being delivered to my clients on the user interface. I want it to be black and white like our logo.

My Success is all thanks to TrueCoach

Commenti: Overall experience: Excellent!

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I’ve been using TrueCoach for a LONG time (since it was originally called “fitbot” and didn’t have an app!). I love that the team is always improving the software for both clients and trainers. Because of TC, I’ve been able to grow my business into a six-figure coaching program where I can have a handful of customized clients AND pre-made programs for more passive clients/passive income. It’s user-friendly on both sides, simple, and attractive looking. I had tried other software programs before that are probably great if trainers want to add in more nutrition and other details, but for those of us just looking to create high quality fitness plans with video feedback/submissions, detailed cues, and easy tracking — this is where it’s at. My favorite features: - My clients can submit videos and I can submit videos back in response. - Written feedback is also very easy - Messaging clients is simple - I love being able to upload my own exercise library AND being able to outsource other links in case I haven’t filmed something myself - Copying & pasting has saved me soooo much time with workouts and adding subtle progressions

Aspetti negativi:

Least favorite parts about TC: - Managing subscriptions was complicated for me since I wasn’t able to do one-time billing as well. I bill my clients separately now. - I do wish we could have days where instead of adding a workout, we can add a write up. So no A, B, C sequencing. I just use the workout format to write in educational posts for my clients and it works fine but I’d love if there was a plain option (kind of like rest days but not rest days). - I wish I could organize my clients into “folders” rather than tagged groups. Having folders to click on would be SO helpful instead of having a long list and then always needing to click on the tag I want to focus on.

TrueCoach is the best programming software for coaches and trainers

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TrueCoach is a medium for translating value to my clients, monitoring their success and progress, and creating a consistent service.

Aspetti negativi:

No contracts, no checking people into time slots in the gym, no scheduling system. The feature rollout has plateaued. It feels like TrueCoach is built and other companies will pass it in terms of the value prop. People are primarily on TrueCoach due to first mover advantage but will it stay that way?

Great remote coaching software

Commenti: Great. So good for my coaching business! Means I can manage so many more clients than before

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TC is very convenient and streamlined to use. I can get programs out to remote clients quickly and they’re great quality from a customer perspective

Aspetti negativi:

Sometimes fiddly when writing up different days, can’t save a draft without filling in all the exercises

Happy Coach, Happy Clients

Commenti: overall I am happy with it

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Relatively straightforward and customizable

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nothing worth noting at this time which is good

Best online platform so far

Commenti: I had a great trial run with TrueCoach. I am choosing them for my online training clients. I'm looking forward to new features shortly.

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I've used a few different online training platforms, but TrueCoach has been the easiest to navigate for me and the client. Has a clean look and has a good exercise library with correct form shown unlike some other platforms.

Aspetti negativi:

There isn't a payment processing option, but is in work according to TC support. Has a few less features compared to competitors, but I know they have a lot in the works.

Daily grind made easy for Clients and Coaches.

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It's so easy for clients/athletes to set themselves up. Understanding and tracking their work/progress is impressively intuitive even for the not-so tech savvy. On the programming/coaching side of things, the browser experience is incredibly smooth. Coaches find ways to make programming more efficient every day!

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The mobile app is great from an athlete standpoint, needs work (start existing!) from a coach/programmer standpoint. Currently, coaches have to program on the browser version on mobile, the UI/UX isn't as seamless as the athlete/client end of things.

Great for coaches of any kind!

Commenti: I wish I would’ve started using truecoach the first day I started coaching. I love everything about it. I highly recommend for coaches just starting and well established coaches.

Aspetti positivi:

- Makes everything look professional - Easy to transfer workouts/programs - Great to collect consistent payment - User friendly - Amazing program and gross with you!

Aspetti negativi:

- Having to wait for new features! - The inability to have your coaches link to their own stripe account.

True Coach has helped me Scale and Streamline!

Commenti: I love using True Coach and it has allowed me to scale my business to between 350-400 clients.

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True Coach streamlines the process of assigning workouts and communicating with clients!

Aspetti negativi:

It can sometimes be a bit glitchy. For example, when I'm on the calendar pages it'll jump around a lot and it gets confusing. I also wish it would save responses when you click away from the workout. My coaches have wasted a lot of time typing long responses only to click back to their metrics/photos and go back to the workout and the response is gone and they have to retype it.

Favorite Coaching Tool

Commenti: I've really enjoyed my experience with True Coach. It's really helped me stay connected with clients that I would have lost due to moving away from the area.

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Helps me train clients that leave the area but want to continue with their fitness journey.

Aspetti negativi:

Better "how to" videos on each aspect of the back office management. Mostly easy enough to figure out but would be nice to take the guess work out.

The best option for individual fitness programming.

Commenti: Our team loves TrueCoach. Other platforms I've used, especially in the functional fitness realm, can be limiting to certain types or styles of workouts. If I can dream it up, I can program it in TrueCoach. TrueCoach has greatly opened up our ability to remote coach effectively. It allows us to have a higher level of communication and connection with our off-site AND on-site clients through its multiple touchpoints from workout results, to comments, to chat features.

Aspetti positivi:

Go beyond simply assigning sets and reps. The more freeform style of TrueCoach allows you to program more complex pieces and add nuance while still providing great organization of training cycles, weeks and individual workouts. I would love to see where they can go with the metrics tracking but it's already come a long way in the two years I've been using the software. TC seems to really listen to the coaches using the platform and continue to upgrade and innovate to improve the efficiency and experience of programming workouts. The addition of an iPhone app also greatly improved my client's experience by making it even easier to access workouts, communicate via message, access movement demo videos and smoothly upload their videos for me to review.

Aspetti negativi:

Rarely, but on occasion, the screen will freeze up and/or not save the workout I'm in as intended. If the internet connection isn't stellar this seems to happen quite a bit more. Most noticeable when traveling and using other wifi sources. I've gotten home from trips and had people ask if I really wanted them to do the same workout 3 times? It hadn't shown that way on my end but clearly kept re-saving which was obvious when logging back in later.

The best software for Personal Trainers / Online Trainers / Fitness Coaches

Commenti: Fantastic! They're support team is great as well.

Aspetti positivi:

I've tried pretty much every software there is out there for fitness trainers and coaches. Even when a new one come alongs that seems like it may be comparable as far as features and ease of use are considered, I'll get a free trial just to see. And TrueCoach by far beats every competitor in my mind and experience. The functionality and customization in the ability to adjust programs, videos, text, workouts, etc., nobody else can touch. It's the simplest and easiest software to use. They continue to make additions such as the MyFitnessPal and Stripe integrations that make it possible for you to do more and more in there. They allow me to deliver content to my clients that aren't even workouts (which is so helpful), such as nutrition guides, resources, web links, and I can do check ins within the app, and so much more. TrueCoach allows me to continue scaling my business in bringing on more clients without ever having to worry about the software not being able to keep up. TrueCoach is king in the industry. They've won my loyalty without a doubt.

Aspetti negativi:

The only thing, and this is getting really not-picky, is that I have found on other software platforms, that they have a lot of pre-built training programs that they share with their users. TrueCoach has a very small amount of these. If there were more, that'd be cool but it's not a huge deal to me.

Movement Coach In-Person and Virtual

Commenti: My peak coaching career began right before the pandemic in 2020. Having TrueCoach was the perfect tool to keep the momentum going and my clients committed as they had the flexibility of online coaching both with video or just the training plan - as TrueCoach provides all that we need with the training plan calendar layout, note tracking, communication, and exercise library/video sharing. This provided an access approach to training that allowed our clients to stay on-track despite the uncertain times.

Aspetti positivi:

The exercise library - as a personal trainer a part of a team - we value collaboration. This feature allows for us coaches to be able to share new exercises that supports an area of growth that one or more of our clients face such as lower back pain, hip pain, foot pain etc.Being able to track the overall stats such as particular goals reached and when, as well as organizing key metrics allows for a great end-of-year summary that both celebrates the client's achievements, and provides ample momentum for the upcoming year's round of goal setting.

Aspetti negativi:

A great sign for us coaches is when our TrueCoach account tells us we don't have enough space, because we are full to the brim with clients! This is a sign that our overall methodology is a success. However, of course, when it comes to TrueCoach, the one thing I like least are the client profile capacity limitations.

TrueCoach is the best!

Commenti: Overall a great way to connect and work with way more clients than I can do on a 1-1 basis. To have the luxury of online and face to face really is great. It's also allowed my clients to get better results from the increase in training volume and staying accountable week to week in a positive way.

Aspetti positivi:

This software is so easy to use and all of my clients agree. It has some great features such as a large exercise library, daily notifications for workouts or missed workouts, personal portal to constantly review progress. Integrating this into my business was so easy and since the pandemic happened it's definitely transformed a section of my business for the better. I'm about to go on maternity leave and it means I can leave my clients with plenty of choice for workouts and they still feel accountable while I'm not physically on hand to keep an eye on them 24/7.

Aspetti negativi:

With going on maternity leave I have been able to set up the function of recorded classes as they're easy to add to the exercise library. However, I think it would be good to make the app more class friendly too in the sense that they don't have to tick off workouts and have more freedom/flexibility to choose what they want to do. I have guided my clients to not feel pressured into ticking workouts off or doing what is set for each day as I wanted to leave them with as much choice and freedom as possible while I'm on leave but I do worry that they will be effected by seeing 'missed workouts'.

Great product with ease of use and delivery for clients

Commenti: I’ve had a very pleasant experience with true coach and have recommended it to many coaches. Many have also started using it because of this! I appreciate the continued improvements and again, ease of use for clients. It feels professional and improves the experience

Aspetti positivi:

Having the ability to upload your own videos for clients is ideal. It allows for ease of explanation and personalization

Aspetti negativi:

The main piece I wish was included was a place for loads to be entered to track volume over time. The open text boxes are good, but I would like to be able to track volume and load over time. I also wish the there was an app for coaches to manipulate data.

Perfect Remote Coaching Software

Commenti: Overall, I love this software. It allows me to track all of my clients' workouts and histories. I can program their workouts and they are delivered seamlessly. I have had great experiences with customer service over the years.

Aspetti positivi:

I love that the users have an easy to use app that delivers the workouts easily. I especially like that I can upload my own videos for each exercise that I assign to my clients.

Aspetti negativi:

I wish there were an app for the coaches to do programming and workout edits/tracking. If I want to track workout metrics during an in-person coaching session, it is a bit clumsy to use the program in my phone's browser.

Solid App

Commenti: I've used other apps similar to this, but true coach really just made it a lot easier and a lot more streamlined. Essentially saving me time, and time is money.

Aspetti positivi:

I like how easy it is to use on my end as well as on my clients end, as well as a lot of the features like tracking measurements, photos, and being able to connect to my fitness pal. It's easy to write programs, as I don't need to type the exact exercise in the search bar. It uses more keywords, which is very convenient and very nice.

Aspetti negativi:

Sometimes I feel like it's kind of pricey, the initial price of 50 bucks isn't too bad from 0 to 20 clients, but then I pretty much doubles once you get 21 clients. This is fine, and I understand it, it's more that I personally usually flow around 25 clients and for those additional five clients I paid more than double what I initially paid. Although, I feel like there's enough in value and it really streamlines my work that the extra costs don't matter.

Good quality CRM

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Adding products and creating subscriptions for our athletes was easy and intuitive. The customization of each athletes workouts as well the feature to create and assign programs works well with our gym model. The ability to add to an already existing exercise library that autocompletes suggestions is Aldo a nice feature.

Aspetti negativi:

I would like to see the ability to add membership contracts as well as an e-sign function to accompany each membership. Single use payments would also be helpful to process through the software.

Tru Coach Review

Commenti: Overall experience has been great. The side features of equipment lists, notes, or even being able to build your own programs is awesome! Also love being able to communicate to clients through the app (online).

Aspetti positivi:

I can easily build workouts, search previous history, or move workouts when needed without a hastle. My clients can also see videos of any movement, whether it's already logged with central athlete or I find something off of YouTube.

Aspetti negativi:

I don't like all of the demo videos from central athlete so I've had to either create my own or find something from YouTube. I also struggle to find some videos when I'm typing the exercise name out as it only pulls up some of the options with the similar letters that I've typed (even though what I'm looking for is in the video library). I also don't like or use the payment option through Tru Coach. It's a great feature/idea but I'm not willing to pay the higher credit card fees per client/sale to use it. There also should be an app that can be downloaded with Google/Android phones.

Fitbot/TrueCoach

Commenti: It does increase my programming time and it is a great way to deliver my clients their workouts and create a streamline and cohesive business platform for me. it allows me to communicate with my clients efficiently and also allows for some distance between my clients and I when i am "not on the clock" from the old days of my cell phone for communication and emailing or google drive files....

Aspetti positivi:

The easy to use interface makes it great for setting up individual clients. Programming fast is easy, saving me time.

Aspetti negativi:

the software does limit to me to just a one on one with clients, and having season groups that I do offer, running programs or athletic teams I have had to get another software system to handle these groups, so i now have 2 payments and 2 different interfaces that my gym uses. Also a payment processing option i would have utilized initially, as i have had to use another software system to run all of that as well... it would be nice to have it all on one place. Also, app for android users...

How True Coach makes me a better coach

Commenti: Organizing my clients progress in a way that is meaningful and observable for them and for me.

Aspetti positivi:

True Coach is not only a great library (and one that I can add to) of exercises to use for prescribing training its a system that allows me to keep each one of my clients organized in a way that no other software captures as well.

Aspetti negativi:

It would be great if it allowed payment and acted as a CRM. There TRULY is no good fitness CRM--none get the fitness industry and especially not this model. The CRMs out there are based on group fitness model not on individual design.