Workout plan generator for personal trainers

What the generator actually does

1. 1

   You describe the client, not the workout

   Goal (strength, muscle mass, endurance, or fat loss and general fitness), level, sessions per week, the conditions that apply, and the equipment on hand. No exercise picking, no set and rep decisions.

2. 2

   The generator excludes before it selects

   Every exercise in the database carries its injury exclusions with a reason and a source. Tick low back pain and the classic sit-up, the weighted twist and the heavy good morning are gone from the pool. For low back pain the core work switches to McGill's Big 3: one exercise per protective direction.

3. 3

   It builds a block, not a single session

   One template per training day, repeated across the weeks of the block, so the same exercise sits on the same day every week. That is what makes a heavier weight mean something. Variation comes with the next block, which rotates to different exercises.

4. 4

   It doses from the guidelines, not from habit

   Sets, reps and rest come from the goal: 3 x 5 at 150 seconds rest for maximal strength, 3 x 10 at 75 seconds for muscle mass, 3 x 15 at 30 seconds for endurance, 3 x 12 at 45 seconds for fat loss and general fitness. Load climbs 5 percent per week by default, capped at 25 percent.

5. 5

   You get a worksheet you can hand over

   A landscape PDF, one sheet per training day, with the weeks side by side and an empty box per week so last week's number sits right next to this week's. Your client can also open the same worksheet from a private link and log what they lifted.

Where a generator is the wrong tool

A generator is worth having when the programming itself eats your evenings. It is not worth having if what you actually need is group class scheduling, invoicing or a branded client app: RungGym has none of those, and a broad platform will serve you better. It is also the wrong tool for a client under active treatment, where the plan belongs with the physiotherapist or the physician, not with software.

And it does not do rehabilitation programming. The injury filters keep a plan away from what is contraindicated for a stable, known condition. That is a different job from rebuilding a joint after surgery.

Questions

What is a workout plan generator?

A workout plan generator turns a client's goal, level, injuries and available equipment into a finished training plan, instead of leaving the trainer to assemble every exercise, set and rep by hand. A good one applies fixed, sourced rules rather than picking exercises at random, so the same inputs always produce a defensible plan.

Is there a free workout plan generator?

Not on RungGym at the moment. The free public generator was taken offline, and RungGym now runs on an account with a 14 day free trial, which does need a card at signup. During that trial you generate real blocks for real clients and export the PDFs, so you can judge the output before you are charged.

Does the generator adapt to injuries?

Yes, and it does so by exclusion rather than by warning. RungGym covers eight categories: low back pain, knee complaints and arthrosis, shoulder complaints, pregnancy and postnatal, high blood pressure, wrist and elbow complaints, balance problems and fall prevention, and overweight with a low fitness level. An exercise contraindicated for a ticked condition is never placed in that plan.

Can it work around missing equipment?

Yes. You tick what the client actually has, from a full gym down to nothing but body weight, and the generator only draws from exercises that fit. There is a shortcut for everything available, per equipment block or for all 40 at once, so setting up a gym-based client takes one click.

Does a generated plan replace the trainer?

No. The generator makes the selection and dosage decisions along fixed rules; you judge the result, adjust where needed and coach the execution. Where a choice deviates from a guideline, RungGym says so explicitly instead of applying it silently. It does not replace a medical diagnosis or a referral.

Read further

• What personal trainer software that writes the plan replaces

  The wider picture: what RungGym does and deliberately does not do next to the coaching platforms.

• How to create a workout plan for a client, step by step

  The same rules the generator applies, written out so you can follow them by hand.

• Injury and equipment filtering, per condition

  The eight categories of limitations, and which exercises each one removes from the pool.