PT Distinction Reviews

The best online training software!

Comments: PT Distinction has saved me enormous amounts of time when it comes to programming workouts for my online clients. I can programme months in advance very quickly. This is a huge benefit to me.

Pros:

The workout builder is by far the best and easiest to use of all the softwares I have tried. The app is so simple to use and provides everything I need for my online coaching business.

Cons:

No- I love it all! However, the only thing I would suggest is perhaps creating a meal plan within the app itself.

Best fitness software!

Comments: I have used and will continue to use PT distinction for my coaching business. There is zero other software that comes close!

Pros:

Love the ease of use as a trainer and especially having my own personalized app!

Cons:

N/A - would love more features for nutrition if able

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Comments: Only have it for the ease of use for clients - would have switched back to Trainerize if Trainerize worked similar to PT Distinction in how they view their workouts.Probably should have switched back. Trainerize is much easier to use, setup programs, and change things on the fly with.

Pros:

Ease of use for clients, newer updates on the mobile app are nicer.

Cons:

Creating programs and any kind of scheduling on the calendar is not user friendly.They do not like feedback.Simple things that would make life easier on the coach like drag and drop to move workouts around a monthly calendar and add tracking items/ habits to a monthly calendar or atleast having the calendar in the same view as when you're adding workouts, habits, tracking etc to the clients calendar would make life oh so much easier.As it is you have to constantly check go back or refresh the calendar on a separate tab to double check and reference what you're doing.This has made me make many mistake in scheduling for clients.

Great Product and easy to use

Comments: I have no complaints at all and thoroughly enjoying using PTDistinction. Having the addition of the Facebook groups, GDFY & The Academy has made a HUGE difference. I would absolutely recommend to others to use.

Pros:

I did so much research on the different App's available and this came out tops for me in usability, price, functions etc. I used the Gold Done for You Service and joined the Ninja Academy - great resource to use to boost my business model. Since using this for past 5 months or so, i have found it easy to get around, add in bespoke parts for my clients. There is probably so much more that i have still to find to use!!!

Cons:

Probably lack of exercises that i use for my clients. I have had to create numerous. My avatar is more middle age/older females, so lots more body weight exercises and mobility needed.

Very Happy with this App Provider

Comments: I'm very happy with PT Distinction overall.

Pros:

I like that PTD is continually making improvements and updates to their app so it's a better experience for both coaches and clients.

Cons:

The help desk can be slow to resolve issues, and they don't notify me when it is resolved. I always need to "pull" for updates rather than simply receiving them.

Average.

Comments: It’s good for the starting personal trainers, system price wise . Unfortunately didn’t meet my criteria

Pros:

Nothing really , maybe it’s good for the people who only started

Cons:

It wasn’t what I was looking for.

Great one-stop tool for health fitness coaches

Comments: I've reviewed most health and fitness apps and this trumped them all for me. Customer support is always helpful and prompt.

Pros:

It's easy to use and has great functionality that allows customisation to create my own programs and schedule it out for my clients. Love that you can customise the brand of the app to your own.

Cons:

Not being able for clients to upload photos in the forms.

Useful Personal Training platform with many features.

Comments: I was pleasantly surprised by the features and how simple and easy it was to set everything up. Unfortunately, it's only available in English.

Pros:

PT Distinction has the potential to save me enormous amounts of time when it comes to programming workouts, its possibel to plan months in advance very quickly and all the scheduling can be automated. The workout editor is one of the best I used and it's very easy to create automated packages to suit different approaches to new clients. This is a huge benefit to scale in the future.

Cons:

I really like PT Distinction , it has all te features I need except localization, its only available in English. And the app needs to be optimized.

Excellent Platform for Personal Training and Coaching

Comments: Very happy with this platform!

Pros:

Great customer service, easy to navigate

Cons:

I would like to get clearer info on when client's programs are set to expire; not just a "soon" notice, but the date would be helpful.

PT Distinction helps me coach my clients better

Comments: It helps me reach my clients easier, check their form, easily set them up with welcome package and automated emails, messages, texts, etc. I can do everything from right here.

Pros:

The video submission feature for clients to check form.

Cons:

Just a minor thing - when you start a workout and get the overview look, it is hard for clients to understand how to save a set, move to the next one etc. If the first view was the "one-exercise-at-a-time" view, it would be much easier to explain the app.

The best PT software on the market

Comments: Excellent. Outstanding.

Pros:

Super versatile, easy to copy, paste and adapt workouts and nutrition to different clients. Also add and distribute new workouts and nutrition to big groups of existing clients at the same time. Workout building is easy and can be personalised - the app is waaaay better now. All the tracking for clients metrics, photos, food diary is great. Simple integration with paypalm myfitness pal, youtube. I'm only really starting to realise how powerful this software is. The tech support is superb. A human being responds to you with the answer in 24hrs or less.

Cons:

Took me a while to get used to the logic - but once I did everything much easier. There is a whole library of how to videos and guides. Once you sign up there are free courses to guide you through everything - not only the technical sides of using the software but how to sell and get clients. Although a bit daunting at first it's actually pretty simple. Any complications arise from the options available which make it so versatile.

The software that makes life easy

Comments: PT Distinction helped me to get off the ground with my online coaching business! But PT Distinction also helped me to scale and level up my business. I'm absolutely confident that I'm giving my clients an awesome experience thanks to my custom branded app and how I have the opportunity to deliver my programs.

Pros:

As a personal trainer and health coach, this is the software to use. I'm nothing but happy and satisfied. It's easy to use, I can easily set-up everything I need and want to give to my clients. To offer my clients my own branded app is also another amazing feature. I also love their 5-star quick and efficient customer care service.

Cons:

I'm looking forward to have a female in the exercise library. Other than that, I don't have any cons actually.

Highly recommended

Pros:

Pt Distinction has checked off all boxes for me and my business. My clients love the ease of use within my own branded app that they provided me. They use the system for all their workouts, and I fully believe that their progress has been impacted by the fact that they have an easy to use program that I can adjust, and vary because there are hundreds of different workouts that I can add.

Cons:

My clients haven't had any issues with the software at all, so since they are happy, I am very happy with everything provided.

The most comprehensive fitness software you will find.

Pros:

I love that I can do anything I need/want to do for my business. I can design programs in minutes. I can make changes that update across multiple clients at once. I can customize exercises, forms, assessments in addition to adding pdfs and tutorials. I have been able to customize a nearly year-long habit-based nutrition program that offers daily lessons and bi-weekly habits.

Cons:

The only con is there is a bit of a learning curve with the software. Once you spend some time with it, I find it user-friendly but this can be overwhelming in the beginning.

Review of PT Distinction

Comments: Overall it was a good experience but I changed apps due to some other options that became available.

Pros:

This was a great platform for my first try using a fitness app. It was easy to use and upload videos. Their support team was very helpful. I loved having a new option for my clients to use and got good feedback.

Cons:

My clients didnt like that they could not listen to their music while using the app. that may have changed now.

Sam Zulch PT

Comments: It is helping me deliver online coaching

Pros:

The workouts are easy to program and allow for quick administration

Cons:

The diet section is limited, cant see meals

Why PTD is the best software if you want to save time and make your life easier

Comments: PTD was the first investment I made into my business. I coach Nurses and realized their time is too valuable to waste doing things that were unnecessary. And it was happening just because I didn't want to invest in a software. I was using Excel spreadsheets and PDF files and thought I was just replacing it to something more professional. But oh boy was I wrong. I got just so much more. This is a tremendous upgrade. You can't compare. It just looks so professional. I can do absolutely EVERYTHING with this. I can't think of something that I tried to do and couldn't! I'm using PTD for less than 2 years now, but I extremely happy with how this turned out. You can imagine it would not be easy to coach Nurses in a pandemic! But I had my best year yet, and I believe that PTD was a big part of it.

Pros:

6 main things that I absolutely love about PTD: - Their support is just unmatched. I wish I could have this kind of support in my business. Your difficulties and doubts are always answered. If you want to do something and don't know how they'll literally guide you. And they do this fast. I just sent an e-mail at 1:27 AM and got a response at 11:52 AM. It's nuts. - Organization. Everything is in here, besides an email address, you don't need anything else. Everything looks that it belongs together and to the same brand. - It's easy to use for our clients. Even my mom could use this, and she doesn't know how to Google things. - Versatility of their Program builder. Resistance training? Yes. HIIT? Yes. LISS? Of course. Circuit training? Absolutely. You can even put a video of any class that you do! - Groups and templates. Imagine your perfect program. With workouts, videos to teach them something, e-mails, etc. Everything that you want, and everything prepared in advance and laid out perfectly. Now imagine that someone joins and you just click one button and everything just happens. What? Yes. This is the power of Groups. It just saves you a ton of time and makes everything so much easier. - They are always improving. Literally always working on something. I'm using PTD for less than 2 years and they did a massive upgrade to their iOS app, another massive upgrade to the Android app, they rebuilt their "program" section and a ton of little things that we (users) ask for.

Cons:

You have to dedicate yourself to learn this. Since it offers so many different things to suit your style of coaching, it has a lot of stuff to learn. Once you get the principles and connect everything together, it becomes easy. If you're willing to learn, you can save a ton of time not having to do the same things yourself when they can be automatized. It's a huge potential benefit. But if you want something that just does the basics and is super simple to use, maybe there are better options. I just see this just kind of like exercise. If you just want to walk as an exercise, it's super easy and you just have to do it. But you'll get the results of just walking. But if you're willing to learn how to squat, deadlift, bench press, etc., and take that time, it will eventually get easier and you'll be able to maybe get better results. So if you want the best coaching service, you need this.

Super helpful app for programming & coaching clients!

Comments: Overall, so much time-saving because I can create and use templates. I love that the exercises all have videos, and I can upload and/or link to videos for unique exercises - it's a real plus for my online clients to have the videos to refer to!
This app has allowed me to really grow and flourish in my online training capacity.

Pros:

I love that I can create my own workout programming and 'template' them - so I am not re-creating the wheel each time. I also appreciate the new Dashboard feature, which allows me to see at a glance all my client activity. And I really love that I have been able to brand this app with my logo, etc - so when my clients use it, it is like they are using my OWN personal training app - so fabulous!

Cons:

I have had some trouble with exercises disappearing in my templates. I cycle through 10-12 templates and when I go in to review them before assigning to clients/groups - I have often found whole sections and/or exercises to be gone....like they dropped out of the template somehow. This is very frustrating because I then have to go back in and re-program that template...which takes any 'time-saving' feature completely out of the picture! That is my biggest frustration at this point - it should be that the templates are saved completely and not mysteriously deleting exercises.

PT Distinction Walks the Talk

Comments: The software has allowed me to continue with my business through the pandemic. I am able to move in-person training clients to the app and also use it as part of remote/video training service.

Pros:

PT Distinction is easy to use and fits into my business concept of building relationships. It is incredibly easy to provide services to my clients. But where PT Distinction truly excels far and above is their customer support. They provide several avenues for support including email, Facebook support groups, and YouTube video instruction. They are clearly interested in building relationships with their customers.

Cons:

From my client's perspective, there are some minor annoyances mainly in using the software mostly related to timer / workout integration. But as they see how flexible the app is, they are enjoying it. From my perspective as a trainer, it would be nice to be able to do more client management from the smartphone app (though if there is, I have not found how to do it yet). Also, it is not set up well to run a group "class" workout easily. This would be a nice option.

Face to face personal trainer

Comments: Fantastic experience overall after having a shocking experience with MYPTHUB. Have already recommended PTD to my fellow PTs as it was exactly what I was looking for for my own business. The best thing for me is the Facebook group where the guys at PTD reply to any question you have very quickly, and they are constantly updating the app with new features, listening to their customers. Their customer service is very, very good.

Pros:

I love the programming side, so quick, easy and efficient to use saving me hours of programming time. The entire user interface is easy to use, very quick to navigate between clients and very customisable. I love the group option to further speed the admin side of personal trainer up which is completely necessary.

Cons:

A big feature missing currently is the option to replace exercises. I have had to change the format of my workout plans for my clients so as to not frustrate them when the gym is busy and they are having to improvise

One of the best app I have ever used

Comments: Great!

Pros:

I liked the ability to make your own app and create templates for quick program creation

Cons:

Sometimes I wish switching from different locations inside the app was easier. I resolved this by opening many pages on my browser when I work on clients check-ins. It allows me to quickly switch from the calendar to program result to results and habits tracking to the client check-in answers.

Great product for your personal training business

Comments: My overall experience with this software is that I am satisfied with what PT Distinctions provide me as a small and independent business owner and personal trainer to help me manage my clients programs effectively and effectively.

Pros:

I like that it had many easy to use options to build a client program.

Cons:

That it doesn’t give you notifications on when or if your app for the AppStore is completed

Moore Gainz LLC

Pros:

The features are great and the app is so easy to utilize.

Cons:

The workout videos need to be updated and slightly longer. But the fact that i am able to upload my own video removes that issue.

Fantastic all in one coaching app for Personal Trainers

Comments: I use this product daily for an ongoing group of personal training clients and couldn't be happier with its usability. It's a simple to use, but incredibly powerful, system that my clients love. It has a huge variety of exercises to construct workouts from and an intuitive "groups" builder that allows you to use the platform for any style of coaching, whether that be for nutrition, habits or simply programming fitness work outs. if you don't have a website it provides you with a simple start up one and comes with it's own in-built university learning feature to make sure you get the most out of it for your business. The support group is phenomenal and fast to help or suggest new ways to make your business thrive and no question is left unanswered. The app can even be personalised with you company colours and logo or can be set up from scratch, for a fee, by the PTD team if you don't have the time or inclination to do it yourself. A fantastic product all round.

Pros:

Everything - see overall experience below...

Cons:

If there are any they are usually solved asap as the product is constantly being updated with new suggestions from PT's taken on board swiftly also

So far this has been a great platform and I love the interface. Keep it up!

Comments: My clients get a very easy to use platform and they LOVE the app to look up their workouts. That sets this a part from most platforms.

Pros:

I really like the functionality and the consistent updates. they really put a lot of into the site and it shows. Over time this will become, if not already, the best PT software in the world.

Cons:

So far not much I don't like but it would be very nice to see some more endurance activity friendly areas of the platform. I just signed up for a free trial with Final Surge which is designed for running coaches and it's great. They don't have the same exercise library as PTD does and I will probably always keep PTD so I can work with general clients more as a personal trainer. As a running coach, which is what I'm putting my focus on right now, I will use Final Surge and then ask my clients to go to PTD for the exercises. Over time I will make my own videos so that my running clients don't need to shift back and forth. Their platform is great so I would honestly consider something like that because PTD will gain more coaches that way. Training Peaks is too expensive and Final Surge isn't so right now many endurance coaches are gravitating towards Final Surge from what my colleagues tell me. I'm sure there are more platforms that are great for endurance coaches but so far Final Surge has the nod in my opinion.