A personal trainer moving clients online needs three things from software: a place where new clients can find them, a way to write and adjust training, and a way to get paid. VidarFit’s coaching features put all of that inside the app your clients already train in. Below is how it works today, from your public profile to getting paid.
Your coach profile and the directory
Find a coach is VidarFit’s public coach directory, linked from the home page and the app navigation. Anyone can browse it and send an inquiry for free, and they don’t need a paid VidarFit membership to do it. Visitors can narrow the list by goal, coaching format, location and monthly price.
You get listed by building a coach profile. It can include your portrait, qualifications, specialties, location and a coaching package. You write the package description and set its monthly price yourself. Drafts stay private until you publish.
VidarFit doesn’t verify professional coaching credentials in this version. Clients learn about your background from what you write in the qualifications field, so spend a few minutes on it.
From inquiry to client
A prospective client starts with a private inquiry, and only the two of you can see the conversation. An inquiry is only a conversation. It doesn’t create a coaching connection, it doesn’t authorize a payment, and it doesn’t share any health records.
When you both want to go ahead, open Coach someone in Settings. It takes you to your coaching workspace, where you create an invitation. If your client opens that invitation while signed out, it waits for them while they sign in or finish creating an account, and then they land back on it.
What a connected coach can see
When a client accepts, six categories are shared with you: training setup, health constraints, training history, readiness, body metrics and daily nutrition totals. The client can turn any category off at any time, and once it’s off you can no longer see it.
Seeing a category never lets you edit it. Some things aren’t shared through these categories at all, including the client’s personal notes, their Quick Check-In answers, private session feedback and individual food entries.
Programming is a separate permission. The client picks whether you or the algorithm writes their training, and they can switch back later without losing anything they’ve logged. They can also turn programming off or end the connection from Settings. A coach can never change a client’s account or delete their data. For what the algorithm does when it’s in charge, read how the workout app adapts to what you log.
Planning in a weekly calendar
Once a client lets you program for them, you plan their training in a weekly calendar and publish scheduled times. On their side, they see workouts and accepted meals together, open a session from the plan, log what they ate, and pick up your conversation from the same screen.
Two features cut down repeat work. You can save the week open on an athlete’s page as a named template and apply it to another athlete. Applying a template only adds days, so nothing already scheduled gets replaced. You also get a private library where you create your own movements, foods and meals for your clients. If you edit a library entry later, plans and logged workouts keep the version they used.
Clients can message you and submit coach check-ins. These are separate from the Quick Check-In they fill in before a workout, which stays private.
Meal plans and progress photos
Meal planning has its own permission. When a client turns it on for you, you can see their meal preferences, allergies and exclusions, nutrition targets and meal plans. You can propose a weight goal and meals, and a proposal only changes their active plan once they accept it. Their item-level food log stays private either way. The client’s side of this, including grocery lists and a shared Kitchen, is covered in family meal planning with a shared Kitchen.
Progress photos start private too. A client picks individual photos to share with you and can set an expiry on that access. New uploads are never shared automatically, and ordinary training permissions don’t include photos.
Getting paid through Stripe
Coaching payments run through Stripe. Stripe handles card details plus your business verification and payout details, and card and bank details are entered on Stripe’s hosted pages. VidarFit keeps the payment references it needs to match each payment to the right coach and client.
Your coaching can also pay for the client’s VidarFit access. Coach-funded access covers their paid VidarFit features once they accept its terms and payment is confirmed. If the connection ends, the funding stops, and the client keeps their account and history.
Who this suits
The coaching tools are a good match if you want programming, client data and client conversations in one place, with the client choosing what you can see. VidarFit is in early access and still changing quickly, and the public changelog lists each change as it ships.
To see how a listing looks from the client’s side, browse Find a coach. The Build my coach profile link at the top of that page is where your own listing starts.
When you want to set up your practice, get started free and build your coach profile.