One job, finished properly
Personal trainer software that writes the workout plan
RungGym is not a full coaching platform. It does one thing: build a workout plan per client that holds up, and finish it all the way to a PDF you can hand over.
The short answer
Personal trainer software is software a trainer uses to manage client coaching. The market splits in two: full coaching platforms that combine scheduling, payments, member administration, communication and workout plans, and specialised tools that finish one of those jobs completely. RungGym belongs to the second kind. Its core is the workout plan: a 3 to 6 week block per client, filtered on injuries and available equipment, dosed along the ACSM and NSCA guidelines and exportable as a PDF. Around it sits a light coaching layer on the client's private link: nutrition targets and a food log, habits, check-ins with private progress photos, messages and booking of your 1-on-1 moments.
Two kinds of software, two kinds of problems
Most packages on the market are broad: calendar, payments, member records, a client app. Useful when your problem is administration: scheduling, invoicing, follow-up.
But the programming work itself is a second problem those packages barely touch. A plan module where you still click every exercise, set and rep saves time, but it doesn't take over the decisions. RungGym tackles that second problem instead: you enter the client, RungGym applies the rules, and a complete block comes back.
What RungGym does
- Assemble a complete 3 to 6 week training block per client
- Automatically exclude exercises advised against for a ticked condition
- Only pick exercises your client has the equipment for
- Dose sets, reps and rest by goal, with a source reference per rule
- Build the load progressively across the block and note it as a percentage
- Rotate across movement patterns so sessions don't feel identical
- Warn when your chosen frequency falls below the ACSM recommendation
- Export the block as a PDF with space to write down weights
- Edit the block afterwards: swap any exercise for a safe alternative, change sets, reps and rest, or add, remove and reorder exercises
What RungGym does not do
- Group class scheduling: booking is one to one only
- Processing card payments from your clients: you track packages and share your own payment link
- A recipe library with cooking steps: meal plans use everyday dishes with weighed portions
- Member administration for a gym
If you do want those things, you need a broad platform. That is a more honest answer than selling you a package that half fits.
How this differs from a plan builder
It's who makes the decision. In a plan builder you pick the exercises; the software just lays them out. In RungGym the rules are fixed: an exercise advised against for a ticked condition never enters the plan, not even on a busy Friday evening.
The flip side: you give up some fine-tuning. The engine picks along rules, not your gut feeling about that one client. You steer through the input, and where a choice deviates from a guideline you get a warning, not a silent adjustment.
Where the evidence comes from
Every dosage rule references a concrete source. The main ones are the 2026 position stand on resistance training by the American College of Sports Medicine, based on 137 systematic reviews with over 30,000 participants combined, and the NSCA Essentials of Strength Training and Conditioning, fifth edition. For core training with low back pain the selection follows the work of Stuart McGill.
Every exercise in the database carries its muscle groups, required equipment, variant family, an execution cue, the conditions it is advised against for with the reason, and the source reference. Where no hard source exists, it says so: generally accepted practice, rather than presented as proven.
Frequently asked questions
What is personal trainer software?
Personal trainer software is software a trainer uses to manage client coaching. Broad platforms combine scheduling, payments, member administration and communication. Specialised tools finish one job completely, such as building workout plans. Which kind you need depends on where your time goes today.
Do I need a full coaching platform or a specialised tool?
It depends on which problem costs you the most hours. If that is administration, so scheduling, invoicing and follow-up, a full coaching platform pays off. If it is the programming itself, a broad platform helps little: its plan module still makes you click together every exercise, set and rep yourself. A specialised tool takes those decisions over within fixed rules.
What does personal trainer software cost?
At RungGym you pay per client, per module: training €3, nutrition €2 or progress tracking €2 per client a month, or all-in-one for €5 per client, which includes the agenda, session packages and your public coach page. Single modules are half price from client 21 on, and all-in-one never costs more than €59 a month, so €59 a month covers 12 clients on all-in-one, and 50 as well. The first 14 days are free and you can cancel any month. One client is free, without a card.
What does this cost if I train for myself?
RungGym also sells the same tools for one profile, your own, per module at a flat monthly price with no client seats and no minimum term. The per-client plans on this page are for coaching other people. See the page for individuals for what that plan costs and includes.
Do I need software or is Excel enough?
Up to roughly five clients, writing plans yourself or using an Excel template is fine. Between five and fifteen clients the admin starts to pinch and the chance of mistakes rises. Above fifteen clients working by hand usually becomes unsustainable without losing quality, mainly because a template does not check whether an exercise suits that client's injury.
Does the software replace my expertise as a trainer?
No. The software picks exercises and dosage along fixed rules; you judge the result, adjust where needed and guide the execution. Where a choice deviates from a guideline, that is stated explicitly instead of applied silently. RungGym does not replace a medical diagnosis or a referral.
Do my clients get their own app or login?
No login and no account. You share a private link and your client sees their own worksheet there, logs the weight they lifted and follows their progress; it installs to a phone home screen. You can still hand over the PDF. The same link also holds your client's nutrition log against the targets you set, habits, check-ins and messages with you. Clients can also book your free 1-on-1 moments themselves. What is missing compared to a full platform is a branded app, group class scheduling and card payments.
Try it yourself
Create an account, add one client and generate a block. Within five minutes you know whether it fits the way you work.
Read further
- How the workout plan generator builds a block
The mechanism in detail: what happens between the four inputs and the finished PDF, and where a generator is the wrong tool.
- How to create a workout plan for a client, step by step
The method itself, with the dosage tables, written so you could follow it by hand without any software.
- A workout plan for yourself, without clients
The same generator on a single-profile plan, for anyone coaching only themselves.
- Online coach software, and the pages for other kinds of coach
The same private client page used for nutrition, health, running, yoga, Pilates and group fitness coaching, each with an honest list of what it does not do.
- How RungGym compares to the coaching platforms
Where TrueCoach, Trainerize and Virtuagym do more, and where they leave the programming to you.