Choosing PT software/tech: Spotlight on Booking systems, CRMs, and Programming software for six figure+

The following is intended to help you come to a decision on the best software to use to systemize your business (if you have a revenue of more than $100,000). We'll go through the types of software that you might be interested in having for your sole trader personal training or small group training studio. And the considerations that you may want to take into account when selecting the software and which software is best based on the considerations that you have. I put them together against each

Fun fact: when I selected personal training software I tested literally 10 of each different types of software. And I was so pleased with myself when I finally selected the exact type of software to a mixed emotion when I realized that because the majority of my clientele is over the age of 40 and therefore have age related sight impairment… As in, a lot of them become more long-sighted. Many of them actually found it difficult to use the apps when training without glasses on… that I paid a lot

Okay, so first things first. You might want to consider if it's about programming or booking. That's not to say that you can't have both, but from what I've found so far, software that does one really well does not seem to do the other really well. So oftentimes you need two distinct pieces of software, if you want to automate those processes in your business with an optional third one (however there is a leader which does bookings, appointments AND automations in one, so you’d just need an exer

Programming:

So let's dive in, shall we? Let's first start talking about PT programming software. Because this is what you're going to need regardless of your whether you're solely online, or whether you're in person, or whether you're a little bit of both. So what I mean by that is the type of software that you need when you're setting programs for your clients. Now, I would say the first thing you must do is ask yourself whether you actually need the piece of software because otherwise you are just kind of

So to create an example of that, if you're somebody who's doing a lot of percentages; so you might be a powerlifter or you're a crossfitter or something like that. I would say that the majority of this software that I'm about to talk about is probably not the best for that because it doesn't automatically do the calculations for you. And you can't bulk change the percentages that you're doing without just writing a note to the client and saying this week do this percentage or just having this wr

Another one is if you're programming for rehabilitation, and you're selecting moves that may not be on a typical database. You're gonna find, especially if you're making a new move for each client, it's going to take you a while to be able to build up the exercises that you require. And even if you do, then you'll have to keep renaming videos in order to attach them so it's another consideration as well. For my rehabilitation clients, I just found that it was not very time conducive or time savi

Some of the things that I was looking for is how quickly it takes you to be able to use the software. And I don't just mean learning how to use it. I mean also your ability to be able to just get going with programming. So for example, in trainercize, when you're getting started out and you want to start programming exercises, they don't automatically have a big database of all the exercises that you need to use in your programming. So for the first few weeks or months, and potentially longer, y