Coaching clients on ORUS

Who this is for

Personal trainers and nutritionists who work with people one to one, and gyms and studios whose coaches do. It is the same application as the expert one, because the same desk reads the same credentials once: say that you coach, and which of the two you are, and the approval opens the clients console.

A nutritionist's account is not a flavour of a trainer's. The walls deny a nutritionist the training scopes outright, so programmes and workout templates do not appear for them at all, and a trainer has no business writing a meal plan for a clinical condition. Pick the one you are registered as.

Getting your first client

Open Clients and press Invite a client. You get a link. Send it however you already talk to them: a message, an email, a QR code on a poster.

Whoever opens the link lands on a page with your name on it and a plain description of what accepting means. They sign in or make an account, and then they accept. Until they accept you see nothing of theirs and they see nothing of yours.

Links last fourteen days. You can mint as many as you like.

Nothing you press adds a client. Only they can do that, and only after reading what it grants.

What the clients console does

Each client has a record with everything you need to run them:

• Overview: their screening, waiver and injuries, the tasks you set, the habits you prescribe, resources you share, and messages you write now to send on a chosen date
• Plan: assign a workout template or a multi-week programme, see what they did, skipped and missed, and set their training zones from a threshold
• Check-ins: every answer to your form, with photos they chose to share, and a summary you can ask for
• Nutrition: their allergens and requirements, protein and calorie targets with separate training-day values, a meal plan, a supplement with your reason on it, and their food log with your comments
• Progress: measurements with trends, shared photos, and the soreness register
• Goals and private notes the client never sees

Your library

Programmes, workout templates, meal plans, recipes, check-in forms and resources are yours and reusable across every client. A programme is a grid of weeks by days; assigning it copies the sessions onto that client's schedule, so editing your version later never rewrites someone mid-block. You choose when to send an update, and you see what it would change before you send it.

One thing still happens on a phone: the exercises inside a workout template, with their sets, reps, weights and progressions, are built in the ORUS app's builder. You name the template on the web and fill it in there.

The web builder for template exercises is being finished now.

What you can and cannot see

Your client's health readings are not yours by default and never become yours automatically. Sleep, recovery, heart rate, body measurements, soreness and the food log are six separate switches in their app, each off until they turn it on, each revocable in one press.

A stream they have not shared reads as "Not shared" on your screen rather than as empty, so you are never left guessing whether they have nothing to report or have chosen to keep it.

Everything you write for a client is recorded and visible to them, and every time a client's health data reaches your screen it is logged. That is the arrangement: you get real access to the things you coach, and they can always account for it.

What it costs

Coaching is 5% from you and nothing from the client, charged once at purchase on a session or a block of sessions, and on each payment of a monthly retainer. Your tier fee, if you are on one, is never charged on top of it: whichever is higher is what you pay in a month, never both.

Taking payment for coaching through ORUS is not switched on yet. Everything described above works today; until payments arm, what you charge and how you collect it is between you and your client.

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