Everfit for Coach

You can be halfway through putting a workout together and the app will glitch and you reopen it to find your workout gone, it’s most annoying, aside from that it works okay

Coming over from TrainHeroic after several years of using it to program training for both myself and clients, I’ve recently been evaluating Everfit as a potential long term platform for managing client programming and training delivery. Overall the system is strong, but there are a few usability issues that would significantly improve both the training and coaching experience if addressed.
 First, it would be extremely helpful to give clients the ability to move workouts around within the weekly calendar. In the client app, users can see which workouts are scheduled on which days, and on the coaching side those workouts can be manually adjusted. However, clients themselves cannot drag or shift workouts to different days once they are assigned, aside from the “Move to Today” option on future workouts. This becomes problematic because most clients do not follow perfectly predictable schedules. Life happens, and it is common for someone to miss a planned workout day. Allowing clients to easily move workouts within their own calendar using a drag and drop system would make the training experience far more flexible and reflective of how people actually train.
 If a client misses a scheduled workout and multiple days pass, the upcoming workouts continue populating according to the original schedule. This can result in missed sessions effectively disappearing from the training flow. Giving clients the ability to reschedule their own workouts within the calendar would help preserve those sessions and keep programs aligned with real world schedules.
 Another issue is that workout updates do not automatically sync to the client’s program after changes are made in the coaching app. For example, if a program is assigned to a client and the coach edits that program afterward, those edits do not immediately appear in the client’s app. The current workaround is to remove the program and assign it again, which is time consuming on the coaching side and risks disrupting the client’s training log.
 Another limitation is the restriction of only three tracking fields per exercise, such as weight, reps, and time. Increasing this limit would allow for more flexible programming. For example, it would be useful to track weight, reps, time, an end range hold duration, and RPE within the same exercise entry. Another usability issue is how quickly the workout session resets if the user briefly leaves the app. If I start a workout and then lock my phone or open another app for a moment, Everfit quickly assumes the workout has stopped and prompts me with a “Resume Workout” message. In reality I often just check a message, open Spotify, or lock my screen between sets. Extending this inactivity window would make the workout flow feel much smoother and more aligned with how people actually train.
 Another feature that would improve the coaching workflow is the ability to create default coaching notes or cues that automatically populate when an exercise is added to a workout. Currently, exercise instructions often need to be rewritten each time the exercise is programmed. Allowing coaches to attach persistent instructions to an exercise in the library would save programming time and ensure consistent coaching cues across different clients and programs. Finally, one feature that would be great to see carried over from TrainHeroic is a readiness score or quick pre workout check in. When starting a workout, clients could quickly rate things like energy level, soreness, and sleep quality and receive a simple readiness score. This provides useful context for coaches when reviewing performance trends without adding much friction for the athlete.
 Everfit does many things well, and the interface is generally clean and intuitive. Addressing the issues below would make the platform significantly stronger for coaches managing real world training schedules.
 Feature request summary for developers 1. Drag and drop workout rescheduling within the weekly calendar for clients 2. Instant program sync when coaches edit assigned workouts 3. Increase exercise tracking fields from 3 to at least 5 4. Extend the inactivity window before a workout is considered paused 5. Add optional readiness score or pre workout check in 6. Allow persistent default coaching notes attached to exercises

I’ve been using EverFit as both a nutrition and strength coach for almost a year now. While the functionality is expansive, there are some key misses that have me running to find other options. The biggest one is the app is BUGGY. The messenger function is probably the weakest part of the application—messages will get “stuck” and either not send at all, or I have to wait 30 seconds for the message to appear as sent. The same has been reported from clients trying to send me messages, that they just do not go through. And this is not a one-off, but has been happening for months. If you can’t message your client and have a seamless back-and-forth, then how can you build the relationship? This is the core function between coach and athlete. There is no ability to “react” to client messages, and voice memos are limited to 1 minute and do not have automatic transcription. Additionally, the search in messages is very weak. I have a lot to say about the training and nutrition functions as well. I would say that EverFit is useable but not for delivering a premium coaching experience good for BOTH the client and the coach. I need to move on from this app and find something much better.