You should be able to leave a coaching platform without leaving your coaching history behind. That sounds obvious until you try to move years of clients, check-ins, meal plans, and training programs out of Trainerize and discover that the official export hands you little more than a contact list.
Today I am announcing the next step in fixing that for fitness coaches and personal trainers on Trainerize: an independent local Trainerize data export tool that helps a coach save their own data into a structured coaching data package.
The short version: @assistantcoach/trainerize-exporter runs on your own laptop, opens a browser, asks you to log into your own Trainerize coach account, and saves a ZIP file locally. Nothing is uploaded by the tool. The goal is simple: fitness coaches should have full control over their own coaching data.
A Trainerize data export, in plain English, means saving the useful coaching records from your own Trainerize account so you can review them, back them up, or move them later. This first version focuses on the coaching records you most need when moving platforms, which I list in full below.
Here is the tool at a glance:
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What it does | Saves the coaching records from your own Trainerize account (clients, workouts, check-ins, meal plans, forms) to your laptop |
| Who it is for | Fitness coaches and personal trainers with their own Trainerize coach account |
| What it costs | Free and open source |
| Where your data goes | Nowhere. It runs locally and the ZIP stays on your laptop. Nothing is uploaded. |
| What is required | A Mac or Linux laptop and your own Trainerize login. Windows coaches can email for help. |
| What it produces | A ZIP file in the open Fitness Coaching Data Standard format |
Here’s what this guide covers:
- Why Fitness Coaches Need Data Control
- What Trainerize Lets You Export, and What It Doesn’t
- What the Trainerize Export Tool Does
- What the Export Can and Cannot Include
- How This Connects to the Fitness Coaching Data Standard
- How Coaches Can Use It Today
Why Fitness Coaches Need Data Control
Your coaching data is not a spreadsheet of random fields. It is the working memory of your business.
It holds the client who started with a bad shoulder and now presses overhead pain-free. The check-ins where you spotted stress and sleep sliding weeks before the numbers did. The nutrition targets you nudged three times until adherence finally clicked. The training program you rebuilt after a client changed jobs and needed a lower-friction week.
When that data is trapped inside one platform, you lose optionality.
If the platform raises prices, changes ownership, removes a feature, or simply stops fitting the way you coach, you should be able to leave with your work. Not just names and emails. Not a stack of PDFs. Your actual coaching history.
That is why I care so much about data portability in fitness coaching software. I wrote a full 10-platform data export audit because the industry keeps treating export as a side feature. For coaches, it is a business continuity issue.
If you can export your data cleanly, you have choices:
- keep an offline backup of your coaching business
- switch platforms without rebuilding every program by hand
- import your history into a new tool
- use AI tools on your own structured records
- prove what happened if an outage or account issue affects you
Data control is not a technical preference. It is basic professional independence.
What Trainerize Lets You Export, and What It Doesn’t
Trainerize is one of the most recognized platforms in online coaching, which is exactly why its export limits matter to so many trainers.
According to Trainerize’s own help center, the client export is a CSV that includes first name, last name, email, phone number, and trainer name. That is the contact card. It does not include client history, programs, or training progress.
You can save individual workouts or programs as PDFs, but Trainerize states that workouts and programs cannot be exported or transferred as structured data, and that there is no way to move programs from one account to another. Client-specific records like workout history, progress statistics, and body measurements are described as not exportable.
The official Trainerize export is a contact list, not your coaching history. Names, emails, and phone numbers come out. The actual work, your programs, check-ins, progress, and adherence, is meant to stay inside.
This is not a new frustration. Coaches have been asking Trainerize for real data export on the platform’s own feature-request forum since at least 2022, specifically to download past workouts and measurements. The demand is visible and years old.
None of this is unusual for the industry. Most platforms are very good at getting data in and quiet about getting it out. There are two reasons. First, a clean export makes it easier to leave, so a platform that quietly relies on lock-in has little incentive to build one. Second, if key coaching information is stored as PDFs or platform-specific objects, exporting it into a useful shape is real work, not a single button.
The point is not to single out one company. The point is that coaches deserve a practical path out, and right now that path does not come from the platform itself.
What the Trainerize Export Tool Does
The Trainerize exporter is an independent local data portability tool for fitness coaches and personal trainers who use Trainerize.
It is not made by Trainerize, and it is not affiliated with Trainerize. It is built around a simple principle: if you can log into your own coach account and see your own coaching data, you should have a practical way to save that data locally.
Here is the workflow in plain English:
| Step | What Happens |
|---|---|
| 1. You run one setup command | The command installs the helper pieces needed to run the export on your laptop. |
| 2. Codex opens | Codex is software from OpenAI that runs the export steps locally. It guides the process in Terminal. |
| 3. A browser opens | You log into Trainerize yourself. The tool does not ask for your Trainerize password. |
| 4. The exporter reads your account | It visits the relevant areas of your coach dashboard and collects the data it can access from your own session. |
| 5. You get a ZIP file | The final coaching data package is saved on your laptop for review, backup, or import elsewhere. |
The public setup page is here: @assistantcoach/trainerize-exporter.
That page is still a little more technical than I would like, because the current setup runs through Terminal. The goal is to keep the actual experience as coach-friendly as possible: one command, log into Trainerize, wait while the export runs, then review the saved file and a plain-English summary of what came out.
The important privacy point is this: the export runs locally. Your data is not uploaded by this tool. You are not handing your client history to a migration service just to get it out. The output is saved on your laptop.
If you are searching for how to export data from Trainerize, this is the practical answer today: run the local exporter, log into your own coach account, let the tool collect the coaching records it can see, and keep the final ZIP file on your laptop.
What the Export Can and Cannot Include
The first version focuses on the records coaches most commonly need when moving platforms.
| Data Area | Current Export Support |
|---|---|
| Coach profile | Included where visible and useful |
| Clients | Included |
| Form templates | Included |
| Submitted forms | Included |
| Check-ins | Included where available through the account |
| Meal and nutrition targets | Included |
| Workout plans | Included |
| Workout sessions | Included |
| Prescribed exercises inside plans | Included |
| Trainerize built-in exercise library | Not exported |
| Trainerize-owned template libraries | Not exported |
| Passwords, cookies, payment details | Not exported |
| Photos and videos | Not included in this first version |
That last group matters.
The point is not to copy Trainerize-owned libraries or platform internals. The point is to help a coach take the coaching data that represents their own business: clients, programs, forms, check-ins, and assignments.
Photos and videos are trickier, because media export needs a separate design. You do not want a tool grabbing private files carelessly or producing broken links that stop working later. For the first version, I would rather make the core structured records reliable than pretend every edge case is solved.
This is also why the exporter records what it could not include. If a check-in, form, or plan cannot be extracted cleanly, that learning makes the next run smarter. We treat every export run as part of a learning loop, because real coaching platforms have messy edges.
How This Connects to the Fitness Coaching Data Standard
A data export tool is only half the answer.
If every platform exports in its own private shape, coaches still have a problem. You may get a file, but the next platform cannot understand it.
That is why we published an open Fitness Coaching Data Standard. It defines a simple shared format for the main records coaches work with every day: clients, form templates, form submissions, check-ins, meal plans, workout plans, sessions, and prescribed exercises.
I explained the standard in more detail in A Fitness Coaching Data Standard: Why Coaches Need One. The simple version is this:
An export is the moving truck. A data standard is the box shape. Without the standard, every platform packs your business differently. With the standard, another platform can understand what it is receiving.
The Trainerize exporter is the second competitor-specific tool built toward that standard, after a local Kahunas data export tool. Each one takes data from a real coaching platform and turns it into a structured package that can be validated, reviewed, and eventually imported cleanly.
That matters because import and export should be independent. A coach should not have to wait for their current platform and next platform to cooperate. If the data can be converted into a shared format, the coach gets control first. Then any platform that supports the standard can import it.
How Coaches Can Use It Today
Right now, the Trainerize exporter is most appropriate for a coach who:
- uses Trainerize as their coach platform
- wants a local backup of their coaching records
- is considering moving platforms
- wants to understand what can actually be extracted
- is comfortable pasting one command into Terminal, or is willing to do it with help
Mac and Linux coaches can follow the setup instructions on the public package page: @assistantcoach/trainerize-exporter.
If you are on Windows, email yashasvi@assistantcoach.fit and I will help you directly. I do not want Windows coaches fighting through a setup path we have not tested enough on normal coach laptops.
This is still early, and that is worth saying clearly. We have run the exporter against a real Trainerize coach account, including a full run on a separate coach’s laptop from scratch, and we keep improving it as each run teaches us more. If you use it and something does not export cleanly, that is useful information. The goal is not to pretend the first version is perfect. The goal is to build a reliable path out.
For coaches who are not on Trainerize, the larger principle still applies. Ask your platform:
- Can I export all of my coaching data, not just client contact details?
- Does the export include forms, check-ins, meal plans, workout plans, and client assignments?
- Is the export self-serve, or do I need to contact support?
- Is the export in a structured format another tool can import?
- Would you support the open Fitness Coaching Data Standard?
If the answer is vague, save that answer. It tells you how much control you really have.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I export data from Trainerize?
Trainerize’s own export gives coaches a basic client CSV with contact fields only. For a fuller export, this independent local tool helps a coach with their own Trainerize coach account save the records they can access: clients, forms, submitted forms, check-ins, meal and nutrition targets, workout plans, workout sessions, and prescribed exercises. It runs on your laptop and saves a ZIP file locally.
Can I export client workout history and progress from Trainerize?
Trainerize’s official help docs say client-specific data such as workout history, progress statistics, and body measurements cannot be exported, and that programs cannot be transferred between accounts. The independent local exporter is designed to save the coaching records you can see in your own coach account into a structured package, rather than relying on that limited official export.
Does the Trainerize export tool upload my data anywhere?
No. The export runs locally on your own laptop. You log into Trainerize yourself in a browser window, the tool reads your own account, and the final ZIP file is saved on your laptop.
Is this Trainerize data export tool made by Trainerize?
No. It is an independent data portability tool. It is not made by, affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Trainerize or ABC Trainerize. Use it only with your own Trainerize coach account and data you are allowed to access.
What does the Trainerize export include?
The current exporter focuses on clients, form templates, submitted forms, check-ins, macro and nutrition targets or meal-plan references, workout plans, workout sessions, and the exercises prescribed inside those workout plans. It does not export passwords, payment details, cookies, raw browser data, Trainerize’s built-in exercise library, Trainerize-owned template libraries, photos, or videos.
Do I need to be technical to use the Trainerize export tool?
The goal is no. Today, the setup still asks Mac and Linux coaches to paste one command into Terminal, which is not ideal but is workable with clear instructions. If you are on Windows, email yashasvi@assistantcoach.fit and I will help you directly.
Next Steps
The fitness coaching industry needs to stop treating data export as an afterthought. Coaches build real businesses inside these platforms. They deserve more than a name-and-email CSV when they decide to leave.
The Trainerize exporter is one more step in that direction, alongside the Kahunas exporter and the open Fitness Coaching Data Standard that ties them together. The future I want for coaches is straightforward: pick the best tool, keep your data, switch when you need to, and never let a platform become a one-way door.
References
- Trainerize Exporter. (2026). Public setup page.
- ABC Trainerize. (2026). What Information Can Be Exported from ABC Trainerize.
- Trainerize Idea Forum. (2022). Allow Me to Download My Data (Past Workouts, Measurements).
- Fitness Coaching Data Standard. (2026). GitHub repository.
- Assistant Coach. (2026). Data export help docs.
- Assistant Coach Blog. (2026). Fitness Coaching Data Export: CSV, APIs & 10 Platforms.
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