Guides

Guides for running a coaching business.

Pricing, payments, check-ins, sales calls, programming, and the move off spreadsheets and WhatsApp. Written for working coaches, not for search engines, with free templates where a template helps.

The Colossus Founding Coach Program

15 seats. Colossal at the Pro price for your first three months, migration done with you personally, and direct input on the roadmap. In return, we publish your results.

Fitness coaching software built for South Africa

Rand pricing, Paystack payouts, 8 languages including isiZulu, isiXhosa, and Afrikaans, and a POPIA-grade privacy bar. Software that fits how South African coaches actually work.

Coaching clients on WhatsApp? Here is where it breaks

WhatsApp plus spreadsheets gets a coaching business started. It is also the ceiling. Here is what changes when the workflow moves into one platform.

An online coaching check-in template that catches problems early

A weekly check-in structure that takes clients five minutes to complete and coaches minutes to review, with a free template to copy.

How to price online coaching packages

A practical framework: find your cost floor, price the outcome, structure three tiers, and raise rates with proof. Free worksheet included.

Bodybuilding coaching software that speaks in RPE, RIR, and tempo

Per-set prescription, intensity techniques as first-class citizens, e1RM tracking, photo check-ins, and phase-based nutrition. Built for hypertrophy coaches, not general fitness.

Physique prep coaching software with Stage Mode built in

Pose tracking with camera overlay, a symmetry chart, a macrocycle anchored to the stage date, and a peak-week protocol card. Prep tooling that most platforms do not even attempt.

A hybrid athlete coaching platform: strength and cardio on one plan

Zone-based cardio prescriptions living inside the same plan as RPE-programmed lifting, with recovery as programmed work and one adherence picture across all of it.

Nutrition coaching software for coaches who prescribe, not guess

Day-type macros, meal plans with a recipe engine, a 2.5-million-item food database, adaptive targets that learn from real data, and one compliance number per week.

An RPE and RIR workout builder that holds the whole prescription

Target rep range, RPE, RIR, tempo, and intensity percentage on every set. Periodization templates that roll themselves forward. Logs that attach to the exact prescription.

Paystack payments for fitness coaches, wired into the platform

Recurring packages, session bookings, and digital products all billed through Paystack in rand, with fees itemised in the open and no payment chasing.

Coaching software in Afrikaans, isiZulu, and isiXhosa

Eight languages end-to-end across the dashboard, the athlete app, push notifications, and every transactional email. Your client coaches in their language while you work in yours.

Personal trainer payment software that ends the follow-up message

Recurring packages, paid session bookings, and digital products on one set of rails, with a dashboard that knows who is current so you never have to ask.

A fitness coach CRM that turns followers into clients

Lead-gen forms with scoring, a kanban pipeline, an activity timeline, discovery-call booking, and drip follow-up, inside the same platform that delivers the coaching.

Client check-in software that turns Sunday night into an hour

Structured weekly reviews with photos, weight, habits, and subjective markers in one queue, trends that chart themselves, and comparisons that take two taps.

A discovery call script for online coaches that closes without the cringe

A five-part call structure that diagnoses before it pitches, presents one package with confidence, and ends with a booked start date instead of 'I'll think about it'.

Switching platforms?

Side-by-side looks at what Colossus includes, what it costs in rand, and how the migration works.

A Trainerize alternative with billing built in

Colossus is an all-in-one coaching platform priced in rand, with Paystack billing, a sales CRM, and client communities included, from R499 a month.

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A Kahunas alternative priced in rand

Programs, nutrition, check-ins, messaging, billing, sales, and communities in one subscription, from R499 a month with a free athlete app.

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An Everfit alternative with the business side included

Colossus pairs deep training and nutrition tools with rand billing, a sales CRM, communities, and automations, from R499 a month.

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A TrueCoach alternative for coaches ready to scale

Keep simple program delivery, add structured check-ins, billing, a sales CRM, and communities. Colossus starts at R499 a month with a 30-day guarantee.

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The Trainerize alternative for bodybuilding coaches

Per-set RPE and RIR, intensity techniques, stage-prep tools, and phase-based nutrition, with billing in rand and a free athlete app.

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