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A how-to guide for PT Mate Nutrition

Do you offer nutrition? Find out how to set up your nutrition through PT Mate

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Written by Melony
Updated over 7 months ago

Learn how PT Mate Nutrition works

Nutrition

Nutrition in PT Mate

All fitness business can benefit from offering nutrition as an option to your community.
Take control of one more aspect of your tribes health by overseeing the way they eat as well. You can offer nutrition any way you that suits your business model.

As an additional service, you'll have to activate Nutrition separately.

14 Days Free to trial Nutrition

Set your tribe up to receive and trial their nutrition plans for free for 14 days. Exclusive to new customers.
Set each of your clients up to start on the same day. This will allow everyone to take a look and decide whether meal plans will benefit their life styles.

There are no minimum requirements to the number of clients you have on meal plans.
If you have any questions please reach out!


Setting Nutritional Preferences Through Member Platform

App Page Functions

Setting nutritional preferences on the Member App

Overview

Your clients manage their preferences and meal plans on their Member App and Member Web Portal. You can monitor their progress through their Health tab on your Business Web Portal

Getting Started

Activate Nutrition

Once you're ready to go, simply click on GET STARTED WITH NUTRITION.

This will start your free 14 days Nutrition trial and you can assign nutrition plans to your clients.

This will start your free 14 days Nutrition trial. After that you'll be charged as follows:

Per person = $1.10 per day (PT Mate price) = $7.70 total per week per person - debited weekly. You pay only for active users.

Create a Nutrition Plan

You can create new plans from the Nutrition tab or within the Health tab of your client's details.

New Nutrition plan

  • Select client

  • Select Start date (Start dates are Sunday's only)

  • Select End date (can be updated anytime)

Next you will see:

  • Duration

  • Estimated cost over selected period


Next Steps: Your client's turn

Once you have created a new plan you tribe will have access to set up their nutritional preferences on their member app and member web portal.

You can track their progress in the Health page of their profile details tab.

Set weight goal

  • Your client's goal weight in kgs

Dietary Preferences

  • Are they vegetarian or vegan?

  • How many people are they cooking for

  • Would they like to allocate a "cheat meal"?

Dinner Leftovers

  • Cook enough for leftovers for lunch tomorrow?

  • Daily dessert?

  • Evening snack?

Ingredients

  • Show ingredients that contain gluten

Ingredients to Avoid?

  • Dairy / Lactose

  • Nuts

  • Eggs

Breakfast

  • Would they prefer only cold/ uncooked breakfasts? Yes | No?

Their Details

  • Height

  • Gender

  • Date of birth

  • How many days do they work out each week?

  • Current weight

Hit 'SET PREFERENCES' to save.

After only a few moments a meal plan will be designed and generates and accessible to your members through their member app and member web portal.

Meal Plan

Meal plan

Note to your tribe: Once you have completed the recipe check it off to keep track of your menu and nutrition progress. Aim to check every meal off each day!

Choose your menu

Meals can be swapped in case your clients prefers another option.

Note: Your client cannot update the menu for the current day. Be sure to plan your menu ahead of time.

Shopping Lists

Each meal plan automatically generates a shopping list so your client can buy all the ingredients they need for the week.

Both meal plans and shopping lists are generated Fridays so your client has the weekend to get organized for the plan to start on Monday.


Update and Cancel Plans

Nutrition plans will automatically end at the date you specified. You can always update the plan to prolong or shorten it.
If you wish to cancel a plan immediately, simply set the end date to today's date. The plan will be cancelled the same day.


Recreating Nutrition Plans

You can set a new plan up in the Health tab in your Client's profile or in your Nutrition tab. Find your client in the Nutrition plan inactive list.

Set the date to when you want your client's plan to start. (All plans start on Sundays)

  • Your client can update their Nutrition preferences anytime. If they are unchanged the plan will generate with the nutrition preferences originally set.


Introducing Nutrition to your Business

Introducing Nutrition to your business

Add nutrition as a service

Any fitness business can benefit from offering nutrition as an option to your community.
Take control of one more aspect of your tribes health by overseeing the way they eat as well.

Different ways your can implement nutrition to your tribe;

  • Personal Training and Nutrition packages

  • Training Memberships and Nutrition Plans

  • Online Training Plans and Nutrition Plans

Educate your tribe about the importance of good nutrition and it sells itself!

How Meal Plans With PT Mate Nutrition Can Benefit Your Tribe

Aimed at fueling their training and day to day activities

  • Helps to reach training goals sooner

  • Takes the thinking out "What's for dinner tonight?"

  • Customized optional menus

  • Cook for the whole family

  • Make leftovers for lunch tomorrow

Nutrition on the Member App

What happens Once I Set Up a Meal Plan For My Client?

Meal plan start dates selection are set to Sundays each week. On the Sunday the meal plan starts your clients will receive a push notification at 6am the morning of, letting them know that their meal plan is active and to head to the Health tab in their nutritional preferences.
​Note: To ensure your clients receive notifications from you - have them check that their PT Mate member app notifications are turned on.

Once your tribe set their preferences they will receive their first meal plan.

PT Mate and Dietary Solutions Have Done The Hard Part For You!

  • Weekly optional menus

  • Shopping lists

  • Recipes

All accessible within your clients PT Mate Member platform.

Learn More About How Your Meal Plans Are Made

Meal plans need to be practical and feel human. They need to match our lifestyle, and our expectations. Otherwise, they simply won't work.

When we set about building our software, it was super important for us to replicate the processes an actual dietary professional might undertake when creating a plan.

Set up Nutrition on your Business Web Portal.


Your tribe's Health and Nutrition

This page is your client's Health tab. To get to this page open your client's profile https://ptmate.app/clients then find the 'HEALTH' tab.

You can see at a glance your client's body weight measurements with a drop down to select other trackable graph information, such as;

  • Body fat

  • Resting heart rate

  • Blood pressure

  • Segmental circumferences

    • Neck

    • Chest

    • Abdomen

    • Hip

    • Right arm

    • Left arm

    • Right thigh

    • Left thigh

    • 'Custom value'

You will also see your client's nutrition details. Start date, End date, Cost of the nutrition and how long their meal plan is active for.

As your scroll down the page you will see 'habits'. These will be habits you have sent to your clients.

As you scroll down find the title 'Meals'. Here you will see your client's meal plan.

You can track their compliance to the plan and the number of hours they've worked out over the past 7 days.

Member Platform

What your members will see when they have an active meal plan.

Here you can see what your tribe will see through their PT Mate member app and member web portal.

Health & Nutrition

MEAL PLAN | HEALTH LOG

You will see an overview of the current week of your member's plan.

NEXT WEEK | THIS WEEK | LAST WEEK options to see past, current and future meal plans.

VIEW SHOPPING LIST - You will be able to see a full shopping list. Through your member app you can select 'THIS WEEK' or 'NEXT WEEK' to get a filtered list for the foods and ingredients you will need for the recipes you have selected.

Take a look how recipes are displayed!

  • Name of the recipe

  • The meal (Dinner) with serving

  • caloric intake of the recipe

  • Meal plan daily target

  • Macronutrient breakdown

  • Ingredients

  • Meal prep time

  • A detailed outline of the recipe

  • Check box to like or dislike this meal.

Note: By liking or disliking any meal you can increase or decrease how often the meal will be generated into future meal plans.


Charging Your Clients

Learn More About How Nutrition Billing Works

Charging your clients

How Does PT Mate Charge Me?

You are only charged for what you use!

When setting up a client for nutrition you will have the option to start them on the upcoming Sunday or one of the following three Sundays.

The date you set your client's plan to start from is the same day you will be charged from. For each client you will be charged $1.10 per day on a weekly basis ($7.70 per client, per week).
Your saved card will be charged each week based on your total volume of the previous week at $1.10 per client, per day.

Take a look at some different marketing strategies that could help inspire your tribe!

What Should I Charge My Clients?

At the end of the day it is completely up to you!
If you're not sure keep it simple.

Per active customer you will be charged $7.70 per week on a Monday. For example 5 active clients at $7.70 per week you will be charged $38.50 in total from PT Mate on the Monday following the previous plan cycle.
If you were to charge $10 per week per client you would make a total of $50.00. Your plan costs are $38.50, your profit would be $11.50 per week.
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The average costs for seeing a dietitian varies. On average they run between $70 to $150 per hour consultation.

Ideas How To Market Nutrition As a Service To Your Business

We have added 3 different basic promotional strategies that will help you to implement nutrition as a service to your business.

Ideas how to market nutrition as a service to your business

Take a look at the different ways you can implement nutrition to the services your business offers.
It can pay for itself and you can set your tribe up in minutes.

Promotional Ideas:

  • Membership add ons

  • Challenge - 21 day / 6 week

  • Exclusive time offer

Membership Add-Ons

Food is Fuel!

Let us help you to achieve your goals. We have added nutrition as a service.

Nutrition membership add on: Create commitment tiers to help your clients stay committed to fueling and training well.

Price Breakdown

Per person = $1.10 per day (PT Mate price) = $7.70 total per week per person - debited weekly. You only pay for active users.

Create different commitment tiers; Monthly, quarterly, half year, annual.
You can charge as much or as little as you like. E.g/ Monthly = $15 per person, per week can gain you a profit of 7.30 per week or 29.20 profit for the month.

Examples

  • Monthly (4 week) commitment:
    ($2.20 per person, per day)
    = Monthly Profit $15.40 per client, per week.

  • Quarterly (12 week) commitment;
    ( $2.00 per person, per day)
    = Monthly Profit $14.00 per client, per week.

  • Half year (26 week) commitment;
    ($1.80 per person, per day)
    = Monthly Profit $12.60 per client, per week.

  • Annual (52 weeks) commitment;
    (1.50 per person, per day)
    = Monthly Profit $10.50 per client, per week.

Challenges Examples

  • 21 Day Challenge

  • 6 Week Challenge

Example 1:
21 Day Challenge -

"WINTER IS ALMOST OVER KICK START CHALLENGE"

Did you know it takes 21 Days to create a new habit?

It's time to create some new habits!

Get involved!

What do you get?

  • 21 Day Meal plan (cost to you - $23.10)

  • 21 Day unlimited group sessions (your price value) eg - Beachside Barbells $165

  • Tees / Tank (Beachside Barbells Tees / Tanks $35)

  • Group chat accountability community (in app group chat)

  • Weekly check ins / Results tracking - through Member App

Price $75 per person - Value $230

CHALLENGE STARTS SUNDAY AUGUST 1ST - Kicking off at 8am!

External costs to cover;

  • Plan costs $23.10

  • Tank/ Tee $35

  • Total: $58.10

PROFIT: $16.90 per person.

Example 2:
6 Week Challenge -

"SUMMER IS CLOSER THAN YOU THINK CHALLENGE"

Feel good for Summer! Need a helping hand?

Get Involved!

What do you get?

  • 6 Week Meal Plan (price to you - $46.20 per person (Your plan sale price per period) eg - Beachside Barbells price $65.

  • 6 weeks of unlimited group sessions (your price value) eg - Beachside Barbells $330

  • Tees / Tank (Beachside Barbells Tees / Tanks $35)

  • 6 week Training plan (your price value) eg - Beachside Barbells $180

  • Weekly check ins / results tracking (in app)

  • Accountability community group chat (in app)

  • Price: $220 per person - Value $605

CHALLENGE STARTS SUNDAY AUGUST 1ST - Kicking off at 10am!

External costs to cover;

  • Plan costs $46.20

  • Tank/ Tee $35

  • Total: $81.90

PROFIT: $138.80 per person.

"LIMITED TIME OFFER"

Example 3:
6 WEEK NUTRITION & TRAINING PLANS

Sale price $165 (your sale price)
​Valued at $265 (your price for nutrition + training plan)

Example

Example:

"PROMOTION AVAILABLE UNTIL SEPTEMBER 30th"

Why?
Add text that aligns with why your community should add a specialized meal plan to their lifestyles.

Every meal is approved by nutritionists and uses a specifically calculated method to provide the correct calorie intake adequate to their current weight, height, goal weight and weekly training intensity to provide an accurately balanced meal plan to each person.

Let the experts guide the nutrition for your tribe with great recipes and lots of options.

Selecting every meal from a menu.

Feed the whole family with PT Mate Nutrition


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