Fitbot brings you our 2017 gift guide for the coach in your life this holiday season. Fancy an item in this list? Simply click on the link to purchase! These are not affiliate links, and we don't make any money from the non-Fitbot items on this list. Program From Anywhere One of the best things about coaching clients remotely is that you can do it from anywhere! Check out the goodies below to help out on that …
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Client Compliance Reporting Released
What if you could get an early warning sign that one of your clients was about to stop working with you? Ever wish you had the hard data when you get questions from clients that don't adhere to their program? Yesterday, we added client compliance rate tracking to Fitbot, giving you insight into how well your clients are adhering to the workouts you're prescribing. It's calculated based on the following pretty …
Enhanced Program Builder and Exercise Video Uploads
We've been hard at work on enhancing some of Fitbot's most popular features. Over the past month we've quietly rolled out a series of updates based on the feedback we've gotten directly from you, our awesome users. Program Builder Improvements Up until this feature release, workout programs were essentially just a glorified copy and paste mechanism to store your reusable chunks of programming, but they just got a …
Custom Theming Is Here
We're excited to announce that custom theming is available to pro level plans and higher. One of the most important things to a personal trainer or strength coach is their brand, and as cool as the Fitbot logo is, we will never be able to replace the personal connection that you and your clients have with your branding. You can customize your Fitbot client portal and client-faceing emails in the following …
Program Builder Upgrades
We've just released some nice upgrades to the program builder.You now have 3 new tools at your disposal. 1. Similar to the standard workout calendar, you can now drag to highlight a range of days, and right click to copy & paste workouts. No more having to clunkily copy/paste entire weeks only. Check out the gif below for a preview. 2. Need to program out AM / PM sessions for high level athletes? You …
Better Long-Term Planning Tools
What is the secret to successful clients? A progressive PLAN, designed for long-term success. We just released a pretty big update to the client planning/skeleton portion of the app. Previously, each client had one global plan, so you couldn't really plan too far out in advance, or keep a chronological log of the plan history either. Now, you can plan both in the short-term AND long-term for your clients, setting …
Link Exercises To Benchmarks
We've rolled out some pretty cool updates over the last few days that we want to tell you about. Let's get to it: 1) Control how far out clients can view future workouts You'll find this new option in your account settings page. The default is clients can see every future planned workout. Here's a screenshot: 2) Link results from exercises to benchmarks Simply hover over an exercise, and click on …
Power Editor Released
Creating workouts just got even faster. We've been testing out the power editor with some of our high volume programmers over the last month or so, and just opened it up for everybody to use. The power editor is great for those that want to be able to program out the entire month at a time and not lose context of the rest of the week or month when writing workouts. Flipping back and forth between power and standard …
The Challenge Of Distance Coaching
Article by guest contributer, Greg Deitz. One of the many hats that I wear is to work with some athletes remotely. This presents an all new level of difficulty to an already difficult field of strength and conditioning. It is not simply writing down a program and saying go. There is and always will be one central challenge to any distance coach and that is the ability to monitor and actually coach their …
Assessment And Benchmark Sets
We're rolling out some enhancements and changes to how assessments & benchmarks function. The minor changes: First, assessments & benchmarks no longer require a value. This is great if you want to add a bunch of data points you want your clients to update themselves. Second, clients can now update assessments themselves. Previously, this was just limited to just benchmarks. The major …