TrueCoach

TrueCoach is the best!

Opmerkingen: 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.

Pluspunten:

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

Minpunten:

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!

Opmerkingen: 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.

Pluspunten:

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!

Minpunten:

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

Needs Improvement

Opmerkingen: Overall I find my experience with TrueCoach as "fine". I wouldn't recommend it, it has a way to go to be extremely functional and user friendly, but I think it has good foundations of it. I would recommend the app integrating an option where coach comments are almost "linked" in the general messages and a more user friendly calendar scheduling option.

Pluspunten:

The interface is fairly easy to use, though at times not intuitive. The exercises I'm given by my coach are clearly labeled with easy ways to track progress from week to week by viewing "exercise history". I like that there is the ability to upload both video and pictures along with description, and that there's an easy way for me to message with my coach

Minpunten:

Sadly, I feel a lot of features can be improved. First of all, I have had multiple instances where I cannot upload my videos or pictures. I've had to restart the app entirely and lost progress, I've also had an entire workout that I've filled out completely disappear. The messaging can be great, but when my coach adds a comment to a workout I not only have to go to the app, I also have to go to "past", click the workout I *think* a new comment has been added to, and then I have to click a tiny message button on the top right hand corner to view the message at all. Workouts are set to the coach's time zone as well so when I am in the middle of a workout and cross over into their "midnight" (I'm behind them) it's considered missing a workout. I also wish that if I missed a workout, it rolled over to the next day.That brings me to my last point, from a client perspective it's incredibly disheartening when I miss a workout and there's a giant red X next to it. It would be MUCH better to have options where a client can catch up. There is also no option to reschedule a workout due to vacation etc. except on the coach end.

TrueCoach, a "true"value for coaches and trainers

Opmerkingen: 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

Pluspunten:

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

Minpunten:

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.

True Coach app review

Opmerkingen: My overall experience was good. I continue to use the app despite its flaws.

Pluspunten:

User-friendly, and very easy to understand.

Minpunten:

The coach side of the app is not user-friendly and never works on a cell phone.

Movement Coach In-Person and Virtual

Opmerkingen: 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.

Pluspunten:

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.

Minpunten:

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.

Great coaching app

Opmerkingen: Great and very easy and straighforward to use

Pluspunten:

Great app for coaches to set up clients program and very easy for clients to use with all tutorials. Also teacking progress and comment section is very useful

Minpunten:

Nothing, software is very easy to use for both, coaches and the clients

Saves Time

Pluspunten:

Not expensive, great way to keep track of clients progress and easy to adjust clients plans.

Minpunten:

Nothing bad to say, love that it gives a free trial first.

Simple and ituitive coaching platform

Opmerkingen: It´s a nice platform to manage a fitness business, it has all the features to keep track of the clients progression and make the required adjustments.

Pluspunten:

True coach has one of the most simple and intuitive client apps available but it can be a bit sluggish sometimes. It provides a very sleek experience for both coaches and clients. Building programs, tracking metrics and compliance is easy and streamlined, the integration with MyfitnessPal is a plus although sometimes it takes some time to sync.

Minpunten:

The pricing tiers could be improved, The 14 day free trial can be insufficient to fully grasp the platform and test it with clients, a free tier with limited clients would be interesting. Its only available in English

Good product, needs some work

Pluspunten:

Easy to assign and keep up with workouts

Minpunten:

About half the time, videos won't upload whether via wi-fi, 4G, or 5G. End up needing to use another app/service to send.

Highly recommend

Opmerkingen: It’s amazing and I literally tell all the coaches I know that want an online platform to use it

Pluspunten:

Easy to use and great library of exercises

Minpunten:

Wish they would let me use for soldiers at fort Polk

Best Bang For The Buck Programming System

Opmerkingen: Overall I've had a good experience with TrueCoach. The clientele tiers are sometimes a pain to deal with, but it's really pretty minor. It's streamlined my online offerings, made my services way more professional, and has helped me save time and money. All things small business owners love to do.

Pluspunten:

I love the ability to make warm ups, cool downs, and customize the exercise index to my liking with as much or as little detail that I need to have. There is no limit to your coaching cues, sets, reps, rest, tempo, or any other training variable. Most competitive products pigeon hole you into particular programming variables.

Minpunten:

I wish I had the ability to sell programs through the system. A competitor to True Coach does this, and from experience it's a great way to not only up-sell clients, but also when people need to terminate from pricing issues, it would be a way to offer a comparable service and a lower price point.

Not So Budget Friendly Fitness App

Opmerkingen: Fair.Not my top choice recommendation.It could be made much affordable

Pluspunten:

Its Great.Best in the Market,could rank as one of the best in market

Minpunten:

Pricing.Its bit expensive compared to others in the same market.

My TrueCoach Experience

Pluspunten:

True Coach is a modern training tool that enables user to organize their daily exercise work plans

Minpunten:

Nothing. True Coach is exceptional and user friendly

TrueCoach is the best!

Opmerkingen: 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.

Pluspunten:

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.

Minpunten:

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'.

Amazing Platform

Opmerkingen: For me, this program was easy to learn and I’ve only gotten better. It allows for seamless program sales and workout program delivery. This has added value to my bottom line.

Pluspunten:

It is amazing that I can use 1 day a week to sit down and update all my clients workouts for the week. This is because of the program feature. I have many different programs, all with different approaches. I assign to clients and then on Sunday, I’m able to go in and individually tailor to their current fitness and equipment access.

Minpunten:

At the moment, I would be in favor of having more say in how the workouts are delivered. Only the top tier TrueCoach levels get access to the most mobile app functions.

Best on the market but…

Pluspunten:

Programming speed, simple interface, custom branding

Minpunten:

Outdated Connect app, lack of habit tracking, inability to organise documents into tags or folders/categories, no api support to Notion or Google etc.

Truecoach

Opmerkingen: I have been using true coach as a client and as a coach, what I like the most is because its so simple to use and mainly looks very professional.

Pluspunten:

The app is great and ease to use. Allow you to see videos and instructions from coach. Also easy to upload your videos and comments for your coach to evaluate.

Minpunten:

Sometimes if videos are deleted from the library you don't get a notification.

Good product, could use upgrades

Pluspunten:

This is the best fitness programming app I’ve found so far. There are a ton of features that could be improved but this is the best in the market.

Minpunten:

There are a ton of features that could be added or improved. Mainly better client tracking and features that help them manage time and their day to day planning aside from just workouts.

My daily go-to!

Opmerkingen: Overall I'm loving this. Easy to use, easy to learn, performs well, stable, and even the tech support team is awesome.

Pluspunten:

I like how intuitive this software is. I can design my own programs, add habits and nutrition into each client's plan, communicate with my clients and make changes on the fly. And payments and subscriptions are automated, so I don't need to deal with reminding and collecting!

Minpunten:

I wish there was a mobile version where I could make changes to clients plan, not just for communication.

TrueCoach is for the Clients and Coaches

Opmerkingen: I believe TrueCoach has saved me so much time and energy this past year of using it with clients and I would definitely recommend it to a friend.

Pluspunten:

I like how it is easy to navigate, the ability to upload youtube videos or personal videos of myself performing new exercises that the Exercise Library does not have, and the ability to archive old workout plans that may be used for common exercise plans for others. In addition, the percentages of the compliance rate helps because it lets me know which clients that need more attention towards.

Minpunten:

The software having to be used on Safari, how slow it can get, the glitches where I would copy a specific workout to place it onto another day and another copy of another workout would upload instead, and the random glitches it has at times in general.

Solid App

Opmerkingen: 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.

Pluspunten:

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.

Minpunten:

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.

My Experience As An Administrator, and a Client

Opmerkingen: Overall, I'm very happy using TrueCoach.

Pluspunten:

The design is very easy to learn, and has all the necessities needed for me as a coach, and through the clients end. As a client, it's very easy to go through the workouts, and keep track of the notes of each exercise.

Minpunten:

The only thing I would have added is the ability to easily copy an exercise block from one workout program and paste it to another. What I always have to do, is copy the entire description under the exercise, and create it in the other program by manually typing the exercise name, and then pasting the description. Another issue, is that through the clients end, sometimes a linked video doesn't show with the exercise, even though I put one up. This problem has occurred many times, and still happens.

The best software I've found for Personal Training clients

Opmerkingen: A really positive one which connects myself and my clients with ease and efficiency!

Pluspunten:

True Coach is easy to use for both coach and client, with a very user friendly set up and a great visual for the coach to be able to see what their clients are doing and what they need going forward.

Minpunten:

It would be good to have a group chat feature (or something similar to a Facebook group) for when I run group training programs. I have had to use Facebook in the past which some clients don't like to use anymore and it would be much better to keep everything in True Coach.

Easy-To-Learn, Intuitive and Reliable

Opmerkingen: It's helped me change the way I help others for the better.

Pluspunten:

1. Ease of use for client 2. Ability to upload my own videos 3. Ease of program building 4. Response time and engagement with True Coach support team

Minpunten:

1. Inability to assign weekly programs. Training sessions are restricted to having to assigned to specific days. This is unrealistic - nobody can commit to training on the same day, week in week out. This negatively impacts client compliance and sometimes causes complaints of anxiety caused by red crosses due to missed workouts - where in fact, the client just chose to do the session on a different day. I've suggested this at least five times in the past three years of using True Coach: coaches should be able to assign weekly programs, so clients have the ability chose which workouts to do on different days of the week. 2. The exercise library that comes with the software, is sometimes ok, but mostly not. Most of the exercises are performed with sub-par form / technique. 60% of the exercises I prescribe are not available. Being able to upload my own has been a valuable. The vast catalogue of available exercise demos could be much better categorized because there's no way to know what's available unless you specifically search for it. I think a revamp of the library, including exercises that are outside the small scope of CrossFit would be great.