Dallas, September 17, 2025
News Summary
ABC Fitness and MyFitnessPal have expanded their integration, allowing clients to share food diaries directly with coaches. This feature provides trainers with real-time visibility into clients’ nutrition, enabling more personalized coaching and potentially improving client outcomes. The integration combines fitness and nutrition tracking, reducing the need for separate tools and aiming to set a new industry standard for data-driven health services.
Dallas — ABC Fitness and MyFitnessPal have expanded their integration to allow members to share food diaries directly with their coaches, giving trainers real-time visibility into clients’ nutrition and enabling more personalized coaching.
What happened: The enhanced connection between ABC Trainerize (the coaching platform from ABC Fitness) and MyFitnessPal (the global nutrition and food tracking app) now lets clients send their food diary data to coaches within a connected platform. This capability provides trainers with direct access to clients’ nutrition habits and is being presented as a first-of-its-kind feature in the fitness industry.
Key details and immediate effects
The integration is designed to bring fitness and nutrition tracking closer together, enabling coaches to combine workout plans and food tracking when creating individualized programs. Fitness professionals using ABC Trainerize can view clients’ food diaries from MyFitnessPal, which is intended to support more tailored advice and clearer progress monitoring.
Usage numbers underline early adoption: over the past 12 months, more than 200,000 U.S.-based clients of coaches on ABC Trainerize tracked nutrition using MyFitnessPal. ABC Fitness currently supports more than 40 million members and works with over 30,000 fitness businesses globally. MyFitnessPal serves a community of more than 270 million users across 120 countries and reports that nearly 1 million people reach their nutrition and fitness goals through the app each year.
How the integration works
Clients who use MyFitnessPal can opt to share their food diary data with their coach through the connected ABC Trainerize platform. Once connected, coaches receive ongoing visibility into nutrition logs alongside workout and progress data already available in Trainerize. The setup is intended to be compatible with the nutrition app clients already use, reducing the need for separate tracking tools.
Expected benefits for coaches and members
- More personalized coaching: Coaches can tailor guidance based on both activity and nutrition data.
- Improved client outcomes: Closer alignment between diet and exercise plans aims to support sustainable results.
- Enhanced member experience: Tracking and coaching occur within familiar apps, reducing friction for clients.
- Business opportunities: The combined data view can create new revenue streams for fitness professionals and may help strengthen client retention.
Industry context and significance
Combining fitness and nutrition data addresses a long-standing gap in digital coaching, where workout and food tracking often live in separate tools. By enabling coaches to see food diaries directly, the integration aims to set a new standard for data-driven health and wellness services. Observers see the move as part of a broader trend toward unified platforms that support behavior change through combined data streams.
Company reach and scale
The two companies bring wide reach to the integration: ABC Fitness provides technology used by tens of millions of members and tens of thousands of fitness businesses, while MyFitnessPal contributes a large global user base and established nutrition tracking features. The combined footprint is expected to accelerate adoption of integrated coaching workflows across trainers and clients globally.
What this means for clients and professionals
For clients, the integration offers the convenience of using an established nutrition app and sharing that information with a coach without extra steps. For fitness professionals, it provides a clearer picture of client behaviors that influence results, such as daily food intake, patterns, and adherence. These insights can inform session plans, nutrition coaching, and long-term programming intended to deliver sustainable outcomes.
Limitations and considerations
Data sharing is opt-in, and clients retain control over whether they provide access to their nutrition logs. Coaches will only see the information clients choose to share through the connected platform. As with any linked service, privacy and data handling practices will be important to users and organizations adopting the integration.
Background
The initiative follows growing demand for integrated health tools that combine multiple aspects of behavior change. Fitness platforms have increasingly sought partnerships with nutrition apps to offer unified experiences, and this integration represents a step toward more comprehensive, coach-driven digital health services.
FAQ
How does the new integration work?
Clients who use MyFitnessPal can connect their account to their coach’s ABC Trainerize platform and share their food diary. Coaches then view the shared nutrition entries alongside other client data in Trainerize.
Is sharing nutrition data mandatory?
No. Sharing food diary data is opt-in. Clients decide whether to connect MyFitnessPal and grant access to their coach.
What benefits do coaches get?
Coaches gain direct visibility into clients’ nutrition habits, which supports more personalized programming, better progress tracking, and potential new revenue opportunities.
Will this change how members track food and workouts?
Members can continue using MyFitnessPal for nutrition tracking and ABC Trainerize for training. The integration reduces the need to enter nutrition data separately into a coaching platform.
Who currently uses these platforms?
ABC Fitness supports over 40 million members and more than 30,000 fitness businesses. MyFitnessPal has over 270 million users worldwide and helps nearly 1 million people reach nutrition and fitness goals annually.
Does the integration affect data privacy?
The integration requires users to opt in to share data. Coaches only receive information that clients allow through the connected accounts. Users should review each platform’s privacy and data-sharing policies.
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- GlobeNewswire: ABC Fitness and MyFitnessPal Collaborate
- Wikipedia: Nutrition
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- Google Search: health and fitness integration
- GlobeNewswire Resource Download 1
- Google Scholar: fitness tracking technology
- GlobeNewswire Resource Download 2
- Encyclopedia Britannica: nutrition tracking
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