Health, Body & Fitness
Nutrition Coach workflow
Food habits, meal planning and macros — within scope of practice.
Nutrition coaches should stay inside their scope of practice: habits, food logging and meal structure, not diagnosis or treatment.
I coach
First clients — keep costs near zero
First clients — keep costs near zero
10 tools · 8 free or with a free plan · 2 paid
Attract Clients
Get found and get leads
Same for every coachEverything that happens before someone becomes a client: showing up online, publishing content, and looking credible enough to be worth a message.
See all 6 resources
Canva
Design
Template-driven design that lets a coach produce decent Instagram posts, PDFs and slide decks without hiring anyone or learning design software.
Social posts, lead magnets and a one-page offer sheet without hiring a designer.
Onboard Clients
Turn a lead into a client
Same for every coachThe paperwork and the first conversations. Intake forms, waivers, welcome emails — the part clients judge you on before you have coached them once.
See all 6 resources
Jotform
Forms & Templates
A workhorse form builder with signature fields, payment collection and a large template library — including waivers and health history forms.
Intake forms, waivers and signatures on a generous free tier — enough for your first clients.
Assess
Understand who you are coaching
Same for every coachBaselines, screens, and questionnaires. Whatever you use to find out where a client actually is before writing them a plan.
See all 3 resources
Typeform
Forms & Templates
One-question-at-a-time forms that feel like a conversation, which noticeably improves completion rates on long client intake questionnaires.
A friendly first questionnaire that tells you where a new client is starting from.
Plan & Deliver
Do the actual coaching
Programming, nutrition, habits, and the tools you use to deliver all of it week after week.
See all 16 resources
Cronometer
Nutrition
A food diary with unusually careful data — micronutrients included — plus a professional view that lets a coach see a client's logs.
Micronutrient-level logging when detail matters more than convenience.
Eat This Much
Nutrition
An automatic meal planner that turns a calorie and macro target into an actual week of meals plus a grocery list, which is the step most clients get stuck on.
Generate meal plans to a calorie and macro target as a starting point for clients.
MyFitnessPal
Nutrition
The food diary most clients have already installed, with the largest branded-food database — convenient, if less precise than the alternatives.
The easiest food diary for clients who just need to start logging.
Run the Business
Get paid and stay organised
Same for every coachScheduling, payments, client records, pricing. The unglamorous layer that decides whether coaching is a job or a business.
See all 20 resources
Calendly
Software
Share a link, let clients book into your real availability. The fastest way to stop losing consultations to three rounds of "does Tuesday work?"
Clients pick a time themselves, so booking stops being an email thread.
Zoom
Software
The default video call for coaching sessions — reliable on bad connections, and the one tool your clients already know how to open.
The default for remote sessions — every client already has it installed.
Stripe
Software
Card and subscription payments with no monthly fee — the standard way to take recurring coaching payments without chasing bank transfers.
No monthly fee: take card payments and package subscriptions from day one.
Grow Yourself
Keep getting better
Certifications, books, podcasts, and the rooms where other coaches talk honestly about what is working.
See all 11 resources
Precision Nutrition Level 1
Education
The best-known nutrition coaching certification for trainers — as much about behaviour change and client conversations as about macronutrients.
The standard coaching-focused nutrition certification.
10 tools · 5 free or with a free plan · 5 paid
Attract Clients
Get found and get leads
Same for every coachEverything that happens before someone becomes a client: showing up online, publishing content, and looking credible enough to be worth a message.
See all 6 resourcesCanva
Design
Template-driven design that lets a coach produce decent Instagram posts, PDFs and slide decks without hiring anyone or learning design software.
Social posts, lead magnets and a one-page offer sheet without hiring a designer.
Onboard Clients
Turn a lead into a client
Same for every coachThe paperwork and the first conversations. Intake forms, waivers, welcome emails — the part clients judge you on before you have coached them once.
See all 6 resources
Kit (formerly ConvertKit)
Client Communication
Email marketing built for creators — welcome sequences, tagging and broadcasts, which covers both your onboarding emails and your newsletter.
A newsletter keeps past clients and warm leads coming back without posting every day.
PandaDoc
Forms & Templates
Document and e-signature software for the contracts end of onboarding — coaching agreements, liability waivers and package terms clients sign online.
Proper contracts and package terms signed online, so onboarding looks as professional as you are.
Assess
Understand who you are coaching
Baselines, screens, and questionnaires. Whatever you use to find out where a client actually is before writing them a plan.
See all 3 resources
Functional Movement Screen
Assessment
A standardised seven-movement screen with a scoring system, giving trainers a repeatable way to record how a client moves before programming for them.
A repeatable movement baseline, so programming starts from what a body can actually do.
Plan & Deliver
Do the actual coaching
Programming, nutrition, habits, and the tools you use to deliver all of it week after week.
See all 16 resourcesCronometer
Nutrition
A food diary with unusually careful data — micronutrients included — plus a professional view that lets a coach see a client's logs.
Micronutrient-level logging when detail matters more than convenience.
Eat This Much
Nutrition
An automatic meal planner that turns a calorie and macro target into an actual week of meals plus a grocery list, which is the step most clients get stuck on.
Generate meal plans to a calorie and macro target as a starting point for clients.
Run the Business
Get paid and stay organised
Same for every coachScheduling, payments, client records, pricing. The unglamorous layer that decides whether coaching is a job or a business.
See all 20 resources
Practice
Software
A CRM built specifically for coaches — clients, scheduling, forms, notes, invoicing and a client portal in one place instead of six subscriptions.
Past a dozen clients, one coach CRM for notes, booking and invoices beats five free tools.
Zoom
Software
The default video call for coaching sessions — reliable on bad connections, and the one tool your clients already know how to open.
The default for remote sessions — every client already has it installed.
Stripe
Software
Card and subscription payments with no monthly fee — the standard way to take recurring coaching payments without chasing bank transfers.
No monthly fee: take card payments and package subscriptions from day one.
Grow Yourself
Keep getting better
Certifications, books, podcasts, and the rooms where other coaches talk honestly about what is working.
See all 11 resourcesPrecision Nutrition Level 1
Education
The best-known nutrition coaching certification for trainers — as much about behaviour change and client conversations as about macronutrients.
The standard coaching-focused nutrition certification.
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