Where does the progress data come from?

From the workouts clients log. Every completed set feeds the strength and volume charts and the PR detection, with no separate data entry.

What is the difference between estimated and tested 1RM?

Estimated 1RM is calculated from the reps and weight in a working set. A tested 1RM is a real max you record by date; Trainnode uses your tested numbers in place of estimates wherever you logged them.

How are personal records detected?

Each set is compared with the client’s history for that exercise, and new bests in heaviest weight, estimated 1RM and set volume are flagged. A first-time exercise doesn’t count as a PR, so the records are real improvements.

Are progress photos private?

Yes. Photos are stored privately and served through short-lived signed links, so only the client and their coaches can see them.

Progress & results

Client progress tracking with the numbers to back it up.

Every set a client logs rolls up into strength, volume and best sets per exercise. Personal records surface by themselves, and body metrics and strength ratios sit beside them, so the results of your coaching are hard to miss.

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Progress per exercise in Trainnode: bench press with an estimated 1RM chart over ten weeks, the best set and the list of exercises the client trains.

Body and health

The body changes beside the strength.

Weight, waist, sleep and any metric you track chart over time in the client’s app and on their profile. Apple Health fills in what it can on iPhone, read-only.

Body metrics charted in the client’s app
Apple Health on iPhone, read-only
Custom metrics with your own unit

The Metrics screen in the Trainnode app: sleep at 6 hours 42 minutes on a chart, health and activity, and body weight at 67.5 kg.

Strength ratios

Strength in balance, not only strength going up.

Compare a client’s lifts against the ratios you expect from their anchor lift and see which are balanced, ahead or behind. A lagging lift shows up before it becomes a stall or a sore shoulder.

Expected against actual per lift
Balanced, or the percentage behind or ahead, on one bar per lift
Tested or estimated 1RM, with bodyweight where it belongs

Strength ratio analysis in Trainnode: a client’s deadlift, bench press, overhead press and hip thrust, each lift against the back squat, balanced, behind or ahead.

For the client

Clients see their own progress.

Goals, the week’s training and what is next sit on the client’s home screen, so progress is something they see between sessions, not only when you show them.

Goals and this week on the home screen
New bests celebrated in the app
Progress photos the client adds themselves

The Trainnode app home screen: today’s workout Lower A with a Start workout button, this week’s days with Momentum, and the Food card.

Progress Tracking: guides and templates

Step-by-step help from the Trainnode guides, with screenshots of the screens above.

PlaybookHow to track client progress beyond the scaleThe numbers that show a personal training client is getting better when the scale does not move: strength, consistency, measurements and how they feel.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the progress data come from?: From the workouts clients log. Every completed set feeds the strength and volume charts and the PR detection, with no separate data entry.
What is the difference between estimated and tested 1RM?: Estimated 1RM is calculated from the reps and weight in a working set. A tested 1RM is a real max you record by date; Trainnode uses your tested numbers in place of estimates wherever you logged them.
How are personal records detected?: Each set is compared with the client’s history for that exercise, and new bests in heaviest weight, estimated 1RM and set volume are flagged. A first-time exercise doesn’t count as a PR, so the records are real improvements.
Are progress photos private?: Yes. Photos are stored privately and served through short-lived signed links, so only the client and their coaches can see them.

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