Get everything you need from a new fitness client in one intake — goals, history, lifestyle and preferences — before the first session.
Quick answer
Free and ready to use, the New Client Fitness Questionnaire lets trainers onboarding clients capture new client background in minutes. Send the New Client Fitness Questionnaire once as a link or QR code, and every intake lands in the same response list with no per-template limits.
Intake answered in the client's own words: main goal, training history, injuries and conditions, current activity level and the sessions they actually want. It arrives before session one, so the first hour is spent coaching rather than interviewing.
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Methodology: the fields are a standardized information-collection structure you can add to, trim or customize.
Most first sessions start with the same conversation: what are you after, what have you tried, where does it hurt. The New Client Fitness Questionnaire puts those six answers in writing before the client walks in, in their own words rather than your interpretation of a chat.
Injuries, conditions and current activity level get their own fields, so a red flag is something you read before loading a bar — not something mentioned in passing at week three. Every response is stored as one client profile in a sortable list you can export, hand to another coach, or revisit when a member comes back after a break.
Seven facts about the New Client Fitness Questionnaire, in the order you will need them.
| Template | New Client Fitness Questionnaire |
|---|---|
| Category | Fitness & Nutrition |
| Format | Intake form, one response per new client |
| Time to complete | About 5 minutes for the client |
| What you get | A named client profile — goal, training history, injury and condition notes, current activity level, availability and preferences — filed in one sortable, exportable list |
| Best for | Independent PTs · Gym and studio onboarding · Nutrition coaches taking new clients |
| Cost | Free to copy, customize and reuse on FormLM |
Live preview of the New Client Fitness Questionnaire as respondents see it — same fields, desktop and mobile.
Everything the New Client Fitness Questionnaire ships with, before you customize it.
Name and contact stay attached to the goal, history and health notes in the same record.
Free text on what the client actually wants, instead of three preset categories.
A dedicated field for conditions and past injuries a coach must know before programming.
Sessions per week, preferred times and training style captured at intake rather than week three.
Four steps from a copy of the New Client Fitness Questionnaire to work you can hand over.
Copy the New Client Fitness Questionnaire with its fields, cover page and thank-you page into your FormLM workspace — free.
Rename, reorder or drop fields until the New Client Fitness Questionnaire matches how you already work with trainers onboarding clients.
Send the link or QR code for the New Client Fitness Questionnaire; each response lands in one timestamped list.
Work through the New Client Fitness Questionnaire responses — Full name and contact is usually the first thing to act on — or export the list.
Three moments where written intake beats the pre-session chat for a new client.
Read the goal and the restrictions on the way to the gym instead of reconstructing them verbally.
The profile travels with the client, so the incoming coach is not re-interviewing from zero.
Have it refilled after a break — two minutes that reset the plan to where they are now.
Who runs the New Client Fitness Questionnaire, and what each of them does with the responses.
Replace the informal pre-session chat with something you can reread at programming time.
Every new member is onboarded into the same structure, whichever coach they end up with.
Activity level, history and restrictions on the desk before the first consult, so the plan fits the person.
What makes the New Client Fitness Questionnaire a usable deliverable rather than a blank form.
The fields respondents meet in the New Client Fitness Questionnaire — every one can be renamed, reordered or dropped.
