Business & Clients
PT Manager's Client Record Saves The Test You Built So It Isn't Rebuilt From Memory
From the FASTER syllabus: this article is taught in full in PT Manager, free with any FASTER course →
In short: Today's first post ran the four-step method on a band wood chop and named the back leg's glute as the muscle starting the movement, before the obliques ever turn the torso. Today's second post gave the seven principles for building a fitness test around one client's specific goal rather than borrowing a lab's or a sport's. PT Manager's client record is where both meet: the test a trainer builds gets saved against the client it was built for, the result sits there alongside it, and the exact thing worth watching next time, whether the leg drive started the chop or the arms did it alone, doesn't have to be remembered. It's already written down, against the client's name, waiting for the next session.
Two posts, one moment on the gym floor
Today's first post ran the four-step method on a band wood chop and named the back leg's glute as the muscle that starts the movement, before the obliques ever turn the torso. Today's second post gave the seven principles for building a test around one client's specific goal instead of borrowing a lab's or a sport's. Put together, they leave a trainer with a specific thing worth watching and a test built to watch it properly, on one specific client.
Where both things get kept
PT Manager's client record holds a trainer's own notes against a named client, alongside their assigned plan and their session history. A test built for a client on Monday, and whatever it turned up, whether the leg drive started the chop or the arms tried to do the whole thing alone, sits in that record rather than in a trainer's head. Three weeks later, before the next test, the note is still there.
Why that matters more than the test itself
A test run once and never written down is just a moment. The same test run again next month, against the same note, is a trend, and a trend is what tells a trainer whether the programme is working. Building the test correctly, the way today's second post describes, only pays off if the result from this session can be compared against the result from the last one, and that comparison needs the first result to still exist.
Built for the client it's about
A trainer running a 12-week plan for a client can see the plan, the rooms switched on for that client's account, and any outstanding form, like a PAR-Q that's been sent but not yet filled in, on the same screen as the test result. Nothing about the client sits in a different app from everything else about them.
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Also worth a look: Movement Trainer (AFT), today's second post in full.
See what the course covers →Frequently asked
Does the client record replace the test itself?
No, it stores it. The test is still built the way today's second post describes, the record is just where it and the result live so they're there next session rather than in a notebook or a memory.
Can a client see their own test results?
The client's own view shows their plan and progress; what a trainer notes against a specific test sits in the trainer's side of the record.
How does this connect to today's earlier two posts?
The wood chop post named the muscles worth watching, the assessment post gave the method for testing them properly, and the client record is where that test and its result get saved against the actual person they were built for.
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