What fitness assessment software or database do you use?

Hi Ashley,

I like www.exrx.net . I use it for most of the fitness assessments which I perform on my clients and it's pretty accurate and efficient. I also use other formats as well, such as various military fitness tests and a couple which I have developed and use for a specific type of population that I train who are not interested so much in BF%, but rather on fitness performance and conditioning (I use this for a specific number of my tactical athletes/clients).

Best,
Harris

Try Fitness Maker by BioEx Systems. It will do all you need

Hi Ashley,

I have used many different sites like exrx.net and topendsports.com for fitness assessment calculations and and reference information. Like you, I needed something to track personal training client progress as well as the ability to share profiles with my clients.

The tool I use with my client base is http://trainermetrics.com. I have noticed that it has helped improve communication, especially when it comes time for resign. Also it's currently free, web based, and really easy to use.

Hope this helped!

Best,
Devin

AFAA has a number of good assessment forms in their manual. ACE also has a number of fitness assessment forms available. However, creating an assessment unique to each of your clients can be especially helpful when designing the client's training program. It may not give you an estimated VO2 max, or %body fat, but they not be an important measurement.

Take care.

Thanks for your feedback so far! I'm really looking more for software that we can track multiple records per person on and that we can run reports/data comparisons from. We have a large set of pre and post data we will need to pull and so far are not finding what we'd like to use.

Thanks!

Did you figure out the Software that you were asking for? What is its name?

Hi Ashley,

I create "lesson plans" using paper and pen. If you want to digitalise them (e.g. if you've created a one page lesson plan with stick figures and short descriptions, you can take a photo of them with your smartphone and drag/drop the image into a note (e.g. "Client XYZ Note") within Evernote. If you purchase the premium version of Evernote you have the ability to share the Note with your Client. You could put 100's of their lesson plans on that one note. As soon as you add the lesson plan your Client will immediately receive it on their computer's Evernote. This obviously keeps you and your Client really organised.

This Evernote thing may sound technical, but if you go to Youtube and type something like "How to use Evernote", you'll be an expert within less than an hour.

Having said all that...

To save time when creating yoga lesson plans, I created a software (I'm a yoga teacher, software developer and website designer) called The 15 Minute Yoga Lesson Planner which is available at http://georgewatts.org/yoga-lesson-plans/. Even though I initially created the software for myself, over 1000 yoga teacher worldwide now use it.

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BWY Yoga Teacher
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http://www.athleteMonitoring.com
and
http://www.fitstatswellness.com

Hi, you may want to look at these two systems. They have an excellent fitness assessment component

http://www.athleteMonitoring.com

and

http://www.fitstatswellness.com