Artificial intelligence (AI) tools have emerged as powerful allies, offering innovative solutions and new ways of working.
In this article we break down the best AI Tools for personal trainers, their key features and how you can implement them in your business.
We'll cover:
How Personal Trainers can Use AI and it's Benefits
Best AI Tools for Building Workout Programmes and Nutrition Plans
Best AI Tools for personal trainer marketing
Best AI tools to help you run your business
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There are a number of ways that personal trainers can use AI to boost productivity, sales, operations and marketing to help run your business for you.
Let's explore some AI benefits for personal trainers and how you can start using them within your business.
Personal trainers can use AI to automate all their routine admin tasks, whether that's booking clients in for a checkin, onboarding, sending out forms or keeping your bookkeeping up to date.
Mark Hughes, who is the co-founder of AI tool Chalkie, says:
By leveraging AI for routine tasks, you can focus on the parts of your work where you add the most value, such as motivating and offering personalised guidance to clients. Personal trainers should spend the most time where their expertise is needed most and AI will help you perform routine tasks in a fraction of the time.
AI can be harnessed as a tool that does a lot of the thinking for you. You can use AI to give you workout suggestions or exercise variations that you might want to include in a client's programme based on their goal. You can even use AI to help with your marketing and suggest social media post ideas, hashtags, blog articles, sales hooks and more.
For example, for this post on the "best AI tools for Personal Trainers", I asked Chat GPT to recommend some AI apps for running a personal training business and it brought up a few that I was unaware of and have included later in this article.
Additionally, you can use AI to answer questions that you need a quick answer to, for example, if maybe a client messages you and asks you a question such as "Do you know what gluten free breakfast foods I can eat?" - AI can answer this for you in under 10 seconds. See below how it has given me two sets of answers below that I can send back to the client:
AI Tools might sound complex, but they are actually super easy to use and you don't need to be a tech wizard to reap the benefits. You can easily integrate them with your existing software through their open AI source and are designed for people who are not necessarily tech savvy.
Most AI tools come with video based tutorials on how to maximise their efficiency, ready made templates that you can easily adapt with your branding and friendly interfaces that are easy to navigate.
AI can be used to motivate clients out of sessions.
Many tools integrate gamified features that turn workouts into challenges with goals, rewards, and progress trackers. You can use AI to communicate with clients faster, improve client retntion and
It keeps clients motivated, which can be the hardest part of sticking to a fitness routine. This kind of interaction makes personal trainers stand out because they’re offering more than just basic sessions.
In our selected best AI tools for fitness Instructors and PTs, we have included the prices of each respective tool and one thing you'll notice is how cost effective they are, some are even free to use.
Think about how much time per month you currently spend doing admin tasks, responding to clients messages, bookkeeping, thinking of social media posts or how much it would cost you to hire and pay for a personal trainer to write programmes and nutrition plans for you, this is why learning to harness AI across your business is so valuable.
Let's jump in to the best AI tools for gym instructors and personal trainers, but before we do a quick disclaimer:
DISCLAIMER: None of the AI tools and apps we mentioned in this article are affiliated to Active Careers. We do not get a commission or benefit in kind for recommending their product or service. These are purely our professional opinion.
Price: Plans start at $26.34 per month
Free Trial: 14 days (no credit card required)
Brenda Beltrán who is a tech expert, at Holafly says True Coach is a must have AI Tool for online personal trainers and freelance instructors in particular.
TrueCoach leverages AI to significantly enhance the capabilities of personal trainers, providing a suite of tools designed to optimise client interaction, streamline operations, and maximise training efficacy.
True Coach’s AI technology analyses a vast amount of data from clients' fitness histories and preferences, allowing you to create tailored workout and nutrition plans that adapt in real time to client's progress.
TrueCoach uses AI to simplify administrative tasks such as scheduling, client management, and task automation. This includes AI-driven scheduling tools that handle bookings, manage recurring appointments, and optimise session timings based on availability, significantly easing the administrative burden on trainers and allowing them to focus more on client interaction and service delivery.
Price: Plans start at $39 per month
Free Trial: 14 days, but credit card is required
Hubfit AI is one of the best AI tools for PTs to use. The platform is designed to tackle common challenges for fitness coaches by automating repetitive tasks, allowing trainers to focus more on client interaction and less on administrative duties.
HubFit's AI can generate personalised workout and meal plans based on simple descriptions provided by you, the trainer. This not only will save you vast amounts of time, but also ensures that the plans are tailored to the specific needs and goals of each respective client.
With Hubfit you can also harnesses AI to send personalised messages and reminders to clients,which helps prevent no shows and can be used to follow-up with clients after sessions. You can even use it to automate AI generated messages when clients reach milestones, provide encouragement, or feedback.
Hub fit also comes with automated check-in and a comprehensive exercise library with over 400 exercises, complete with video demonstrations. Trainers can customise this library by adding their own exercises and clients can connect the wearables to the software so you can accurately track their progress.
Price: Free and paid applications
Simply studio is an AI tool for class instructors to better manage their class timetable and group training sessions.
You can create your class timetable in a matter of a few minutes with the class timetable generator. See below how I have used Simply Studio to quickly create my morning class schedule by just typing into their AI chatbox what classes I want to deliver and how long for:
As you can see it auto-populates my classes into the timetable, which I can display on the front end of my website so that classes can book into one of my classes. You can tell the AI to even repeat class slots that reoccur at the same time each week saving you the time and trouble of manually adding them.
With Simply studio you can also track valuable data on the performance of each class, including attendance and revenue generated. This can help instructors identify popular classes and times, and then be able to adjust their strategies accordingly.
Additionally, you can manage all of your clients through the software, including thei class memberships details, the package they are on, which classes they have attended as well as following up with prospective class members and enquiries.
Price: Plans start at £29 (billed quarterly)
Free Trial: 10 days (no credit card required)
The number one meal planner AI tool for PTs to use is Foodzilla. There is not much this AI tool can’t do!
You can access their library of over 100,000 recipes and 1,500 dietician approved food options, which are all accompanied with the nutritional information that your clients need to know and
You can automate a meal plan for your clients specific preferences and individual requirements in a few clicks of a button, which is particularly powerful if you have clients with particular allergies or medical conditions.
The AI software will curate a meal plan that caters to calorie targets, macros and micronutrients and you can adapt the plan around your clients training aims.
This revolutionary AI software is a real game changer for personal trainers looking to send their clients structured meal plans, which you can white label in your own branding for professional recognition.
Price: Plans start at $12 per month
Free Trial: 14 days, but credit card is required
Next on our list of best AI tools for personal trainers is My Coach AI.
It has a powerful in-house nutrition system that enables personal trainers to generate automatic meal plans based on client-specific macros, dietary preferences and allergies. The platform supports barcode scanning and label reading from over 500,000 branded foods, making it easy to track and adjust clients' diets effectively.
It has an inbuilt drag and drop workout builder with over 22,000 exercise demonstrations and 120,000 recipes that you can incorporate into meal plans, making it the most extensive on the market.
It has a user-friendly interface, with a customisable dashboard that can be adjusted according to specific coaching styles, as well as explainer videos to help get you set-up.
You can adapt workout locations based on where clients prefer to train and swap exercises based on available equipment and with prices starting from just $12 a month, with a free trial available, My Coach has become one of the must have AI Tools for online fitness coaches.
Price: Unclear
Free Trial: Free Demo
Fitty AI is a great free AI tool for online fitness coaches, virtual trainers or PTs' that have clients that like to workout from home.
When clients are training away from face-to-face sessions they sometimes struggle with maintaining good form or lack full understanding of how to execute a movement. Enter, Fitty AI which harnesses motion tracking to analyse and provide real-time feedback on client's movements as they do them.
The system rates each exercise or pose, providing both text and voice feedback to ensure users perform their exercises correctly, reducing the risk of injury and helping them perfect their form.
The system collates this data and tracks their performance over time, which you can use when providing feedback, guidance and motivation during checkins.
FittyAI offers a white-label solution so that you can brand it in your PT business' brand colours and you can apply it for weight training , yoga, HIIT, cardio and rehabilitation exercises.
Price: Plans start at $19.90 per month
Free Trial: 1 month free trial available
But recently they have taken this to a new level with the introduction of multiple in-built AI features that can really take the operational burden off trainers and allow them to concentrate on what they do best, delivering sessions and scaling their business.
You can create detailed and personalised nutrition plans that cater to the unique demands of your clients in a matter. The AI assesses factors like weight, activity level, and dietary preferences to generate nutritionally balanced meal plans based on their training aim.
You can also create tailored programmes in a matter of seconds through PT Distinction's AI programme builder. Similar to the nutrition plan generator, input client-specific details such as goals, age, and fitness level and the AI will harness the software's huge database of exercises to formulate a progressive programme that you can tweak as you deem fit.
You even get your very own AI marketing and sales assistant that can help you with crafting blog posts for your website, write social media posts for you and help devise sales scripts and content.
This AI app for personal trainer's is one of the best on the market and for just $19.90 per month, it's very good value for money.
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Finding the time to market your personal training business can prove difficult when you’re spending time writing programmes, planning and delivering sessions and PT consultations.
Luckily, there are a number of personal training AI tools that you can use to help scale your marketing efforts.
Price: Plans start at $15 per month
Free Trial: 7 days for free, but credit card is required
If you want to streamline your marketing efforts, using a social media AI tool as a personal trainer can do just that.
Ocoya is a market leading AI Tool that integrates with every social media platform, from Tik Tok and Instagram through to Google my business and Canva.
You can use Ocoya to write captions for you, suggest optimal hashtags to include and even use their AI library to provide high resolution images to match your text and brand colours.
You can save huge amounts of time and resources with Ocoya to automate your social media content across all platforms and schedule posts ahead of time with minimal effort.
Price: Free plan is available
Durable really is a gamer changed for small and independent businesses, it says that you can create a website in under 30 seconds, so I put this to the test.
It actually took just over 10 seconds to create my website. All I had to do was put in where I was located, my brand name and what services I provide and here is a screenshot of the homepage it created:
Creating a nice looking website, that is SEO optimised is extremely costly and difficult to achieve, but with durable you can tailor the website just the way you want it.
You can modify colours, fonts, images and content to better reflect your business and it comes with a free pricing plan option too.
It also includes built-in tools for search engine optimisation (SEO), to help your website rank in Google and increase your online visibility and does not require any technical know-how to set-up.
Price: Pricing starts at $143 a month for downloading 25 videos.
Free Trial: You can trial the software for free (No credit card required or set time period)
Hyperhuman is an AI tool for fitness professionals that revolutionises how fitness instructors and personal trainers create workout videos which can be harnessed as marketing for your Instagram reels, Tik Tok or YouTube channel.
The platform allows you to select individual exercises performed by a fitness avatar to create workouts, with license free music that connects together to form seamless workout videos.
You can determine the length of each workout and how long each exercise is performed at, as well as the how fast each exercise is executed:
You can even ask their in-built “AI assistant”’ to create a workout for you by filling in the type of workout it is, the difficult level and length of the workout.
Price: Free Plan available
Mail Chimp is a multiple purpose platform that enables personal trainers to store all their client’s and prospective clients data all under one roof.
But, Mail Chimp does far more than just that!
You can send email campaigns based on customers actions, set-up email automation workflows for things like client onboarding and marketing.
If you’re planning on building an email list, Mail Chimp is a great way to market to prospective customers.
You can create stunning marketing emails and through its machine learning Mail Chimp can determine ways for you to improve email engagement, including sending emails with the most optimal subject line as well as time for each individual user based on their behaviour.
Mail Chimp has in-built reporting and tracking tools that allow you to analyse your emails open rates, clicks and enquiries.
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Price: Free plan is available
If you’re an online or freelance personal trainer, you can use Promet AI to help generate you a professional looking business plan.
Promet AI is an AI software for fitness professionals that can generate a business plan in under 2 minutes.
You can create a free account and simply input your company details and a detailed company description and you're off.
See below the example In created using Promet AI for my imaginary online personal training business “Carl’s Personal Training” (very creative, I know):
The software will generate you a full and detailed business plan including an about us section, company mission, financial projections, SWOT analysis, marketing and growth strategies and much more.
Price: Free plan is available
As a personal trainer you need a variety of forms and documents from pre-exercise questionnaires, client goal questionnaires through to medical release forms.
With fillout AI you can create professional looking forms and documents that are all branded with your logo in under 5 minutes.
See here how I used the AI form to make a pre-exercise questionnaire here in under 1 minute:
Price: Pricing starts at $39 a month for
Free Trial: 7 day free available (No credit card required)
If you have a website you can harness the power of hoppy copy to create engineering and insightful blog posts for you in a matter of minutes.
You can utilise their innovative AI software to create a detailed blog post or utilise their content converter to re-create a blog post from an existing online article for your blog.
See below how I have copied and pasted the article URL of from hospital orthopaedics blog post on the effects of over overtraining.
You can select the tone of how you would like your blog post to be created in, I have selected “friendly” and then click create and it does all the heavy lifting for you, creating my blog post for you in seconds:
You can generate customised AI images based on the type of image you want by just typing and it will generate AI images that are license free for your blog post.
Additionally, you can upload your branding to create branded images that look studio shot that yoy can use on all your marketing platforms.
Price: Free plan is available
Simply put in your service, the target audience and your unique selling points as I have done above and let the magic happen.
Easy Peasy will suggest open ended questions for you to build rapport, generate a needs analysis for you and provide some closing questions to help you convert prospects into new paying clients.
Price: Free plan is available
Ahrefs’ AI Bio generator will create a bio perfectly optimised for the number of characters on each respective social media platform in a matter of seconds.
Simply input your business name or what services you provide e.g. “1-2-1 personal training”, then select which social media platform it’s for, the tone of your bio, then decide to add hashtags or emojis and hit generate.
The AI will then get to work and produce a few versions of your bio, which you can modify if you wish to.
See below the three Instagram bios I created for my fictional personal training business using ahrefs AI:
Price: Pricing starts at £10 a month
Free Trial: No free trial available
One of the most tedious, yet necessary tasks as an independent personal trainer is keeping track of your income and outgoings for end of year tax reasons.
The Brooke AI platform uses AI technology to extract data from invoices and receipts instantly.
This feature allows for quick entry of transaction details into bookkeeping systems like QuickBooks, Xero, or Zoho Books, streamlining the data entry process and reducing errors.
Additionally, the AI-driven reconciliation assistance, offering suggestions to ensure that entries are accurate and consistent. This helps in maintaining up-to-date and reliable financial records and significantly speeds up the process of categorising transactions with its auto-categorisation function.
It can even alert you to potential issues before they become problematic, making it a great AI tool for freelance personal trainers to use.
Price: £39.99 for full branded kit
Free Trial: Can create your branding kit before committing to paying
Creating branding that is consistent across all media platforms is tough, but with Zoviz that just became a little easier.
Zoviz is an AI tool for PTs that will create all your branding just the way you want it and uniform the branding across all digital assets. If you want to create a logo, branded business cards, flyers, social media banners, letterheads, email signatures and more, you can with Zoviz.
See here the branding kit I created with my fake Carl's personal training business below as an example for you:
Just input your business name, select the industry and keyword and your set. You can select the colour scheme you want to use, the icon and design of your logo and then Zoviz will get to work and automatically generate your branding pack like the example above.
SalesAPE AI provides a sophisticated AI sales assistant that can be highly beneficial for personal trainers looking to streamline the booking of personal training consultations.
The platform is designed to handle and automate various sales-related tasks such as qualifying enquiries, following up with people that have enquired, and setting consultations for you whilst you’re with clients, sleeping or on holiday.
SalesAPE AI can respond to enquiries and qualify people by assessing their potential interest and readiness to hire a personal trainer. Then it automatically books them in for a consultation into your calendar against your other engagements.
This ensures that no potential client inquiries go unanswered and you’ll never hear that “sorry, I’ve just signed up with another trainer” ever again.
Price: Free plan is available
Krisp takes digital meetings to new heights and is a real game changer for how Personal Trainers can use AI for consultations and client checkins.
It fully integrates with zoom and google meet and is used by some of the World's largest brands. It can cancel out any background noise both on your end and the client's, making communication crystal-clear.
You never need to manually take a note again, as Krisp's clever AI technology transcripts the entire conversation in real time which is really useful when you need to refer back to client's requirements or for documenting the conversation in your client management system. The AI will even provide you a meeting summary of key points so that you don't have to.
It will additionally record the meeting for you encase you need to refer back to it and considering it comes with a free plan option, this is a must have free AI software for virtual trainers.