Nutrition coaching
Nutrition coaching for personal trainers: a food log clients keep, and a week you can coach from.
Clients log what they eat in your app, by barcode, by name or from the label. You see each day against the macro plan you set, what stands out across the week, and you comment on the day it happened.
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In the client’s app
Food logging that is quick enough to keep doing.
A food log only helps if it is still being filled in at week six. So the common cases take one tap: yesterday’s breakfast again, a recipe, a pack scanned last week. Going over target shows in ochre, never red.
- Dutch and English basic foods, plus products sold in the client’s country
- Barcode scan; a new product is read from a photo of its label
- Count pieces, portions, tablespoons or the client’s own bowl, not only grams
- Change a recipe for one meal; the coach sees what was different
- Recent, Favourites and one tap for yesterday’s breakfast
- Write a meal or a whole day out in words; the client checks the foods before they are logged
On the client page
Read the week, not 35 meals. Comment on the day it happened.
Each client’s Nutrition section counts the days on plan and the protein a day, then says what stands out: which meals bring little protein, which days went unlogged, which were filled in afterwards. Open a day and write what you noticed; the client gets a notification and finds it on that day in the app.
- Calories on plan, Protein a day and Days logged, per week
- Each day marked On plan, Protein low, over or under, or Not logged
- What stands out, with Give a recipe on a protein gap
- Comments show Seen or Not seen yet, on the dashboard and in the coach app
- Fibre and saturated fat per day, for clients working on health, not only weight
- Clients choose: their whole diary, or only the daily totals
Your dashboard
Your client’s app
Studio recipes
Your recipes, at the top of their list.
Build recipes once for the whole studio, or give one to a client when their week calls for it. The app counts portions for them, and you see how often each recipe actually gets logged.
- Who sees it: every client, or chosen clients
- Give a recipe sorts by most protein per serving
- Logged N× in 30 days, per recipe and per client
- Clients’ own recipes in their own tab
Your dashboard
Your client’s app
Nutrition targets
Calorie and macro targets, calculated in seconds, split by the day.
Pick a goal and Trainnode sets calories, protein, carbs and fat from the client’s own weight, body fat and training. Training-day and rest-day targets sync to their app, the right one is picked each day from whether they trained, and you can change any number by hand.
- Targets per day type: training, rest or default
- You choose how close counts as on plan, from ±5 to ±20%
- Calories on plan and Protein target hit as Momentum goals
- Every number editable, with your notes beside it
Beside the training
Intake next to recovery, not in a separate app.
The nutrition plan and the food log sit on the client’s Health tab with their sleep, weight and recovery. When weight stalls or a week is flagged for short sleep, the intake and the training are on the same screen.
- Each day’s logged intake against the plan
- A day logged in Trainnode wins over Apple Health totals
- Weight and body fat from tracked metrics
Nutrition Coaching: guides and templates
Step-by-step help from the Trainnode guides, with screenshots of the screens above.
- How-toMake studio recipes and give one to a clientBuild a recipe in Recipes, choose which clients see it, and give one to a client from their food week with an optional message.
- How-toRead a client’s food week and comment on a dayOpen the Nutrition section on a client’s Health tab, read what stands out in their week, and post a comment the client sees on that day in the app.
- How-toSet calorie and macro targets for training and rest daysCalculate a client’s calories, protein, carbs and fat from their weight and goal in Trainnode, split training and rest days, and sync the targets to their app.
Frequently asked questions
- Do my clients need MyFitnessPal or another calorie app?
- No. Food logging is part of your studio’s app, next to their workouts, bookings and chat, and barcode and label scanning are included.
- Which foods can clients find?
- Dutch basic foods from NEVO (RIVM), English basic foods from USDA FoodData Central, and branded products from Open Food Facts, searched in the country the client shops in.
- What if a product isn’t in the food list?
- The client photographs the nutrition table and the numbers are filled in for them to check. After that the product is saved for everyone at your studio, so the next person can scan it straight in.
- Is this a meal plan?
- No. You set calorie and macro targets and share recipes; the client chooses what to eat. Trainnode doesn’t write menus or tell clients what to eat.
- How are the macro targets calculated?
- Trainnode estimates daily energy needs with the Mifflin–St Jeor equation from weight, height, age and sex, scaled by how often the client trains. Your goal sets protein and fat per kg and the calorie multiplier, and carbs fill the rest.
- Can I set different targets for training and rest days?
- Yes. Each client can have training-day, rest-day and default plans. Build one and copy it to the next as a starting point.
- Can I override the calculated numbers?
- Always. Every value is editable: calories, protein, carbs and fat, and the inputs behind them. Add a note for anything the numbers don’t say.
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