Goals and motivation
Clarify the outcome and why it matters.
Ask clients to rank goals, explain their motivation, and describe useful progress.
- Primary and secondary goals
- Reason for starting
- Timeline and signs of progress
Free fitness questionnaire builder
Free AI Fitness Questionnaire Generator
Describe your coaching service. Makeform turns your brief into a fitness questionnaire for goals, relevant health history, activity, experience, schedule, and preferences.
- Unlimited free forms and responses
- Editable before publishing
- Conditional follow-up questions
- Built for trainers, studios, and gyms
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Sample prompts for the builder
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Prompt ready4 formats
Audience
Independent trainers onboarding one-to-one clients
Format
Multi-step questionnaire with conditional health follow-ups
Prompt size
342 chars
Brief qualitySends to builder
Example questionnaire structure
Multi-step questionnaire with conditional health follow-ups
Prompt exampleEditable in builder
What are your top three fitness goals?
Long answerFirst ask
2
How active are you in a typical week?
Multiple choice
3
Relevant injuries, conditions, or activity restrictions
Long answer
4
Which days and session lengths are realistic?
Checkboxes
5
What has affected consistency before?
Long answer
Suggested routing tags
New client
Follow-up needed
Ready to schedule
Ask separately about goals, current habits, and realistic availability so each answer supports program planning.
Step 1
Describe
service, client type, and coaching approach
Step 2
Generate
goals, history, activity, and preferences
Step 3
Review
edit wording, required fields, and follow-ups
Step 4
Onboard
share, review responses, and plan the first session
Better client context
Plan from useful answers, not first-session guesswork.
Organize the information a trainer needs before discussing exercises and a realistic weekly routine.
Goals become specific
Separate outcome, motivation, timeline, and priority so a broad goal such as general fitness becomes specific.
Follow-ups stay relevant
Show injury details after a reported issue or equipment questions only for remote coaching.
Responses arrive together
Keep goals, availability, experience, preferences, and disclosed concerns in one submission.
Four onboarding contexts
Shape the questions around how you coach.
The same core intake changes when the client trains in a gym, at home, in a group, or through remote check-ins.
One-to-one training
Capture goals, history, coaching preferences, availability, and movement concerns.
Gym orientation
Route members by goals, class interest, equipment confidence, and visit times.
Small-group programs
Compare experience and schedules while collecting private individual concerns.
Online coaching
Document equipment, space, routine, feedback preferences, and check-in cadence.
Questionnaire workflow
From coaching brief to review-ready intake.
Generate the structure, tailor sensitive and practical questions, then send one clear link before the first planning conversation.
01
Describe your service
Name the service and the onboarding decisions each response should support.
02
Edit the field sequence
Sequence goals, activity, relevant health history, and conditional follow-ups clearly.
03
Test the client path
Preview on mobile, try every branch, and confirm required fields and wording.
04
Share and review
Send the link and review answers before discussing goals, expectations, and next steps.
Choose the right intake
A fitness questionnaire should prepare a conversation.
Balance scannable structured answers with open responses that preserve context.
Approach
What you learn
Best use
ApproachInformal email
What you learnWhatever the client thinks to mention, in an inconsistent format.
Best useA quick follow-up after you already know the client.
ApproachGeneric downloadable checklist
What you learnA fixed set of answers that may not match your service or equipment.
Best useA starting reference for deciding which topics matter.
Approach
Generated online questionnaire
What you learnStructured goals, activity, experience, schedule, preferences, and relevant conditional details.
Best useRepeatable onboarding that still adapts to each client.
Field guide
What a fitness questionnaire should include.
Use six focused sections so clients can answer clearly and trainers can review the details in a practical order.
Current activity
Establish a usable starting picture.
Ask about activity types, session duration, consistency, and a typical workday.
- Active days per week
- Activity types and duration
- Daily routine and consistency
Health and movement history
Invite relevant disclosures clearly.
Use neutral wording for injuries, conditions, medication considerations, pain, and advised restrictions.
- Injuries and pain
- Relevant conditions or medications
- Advised restrictions and context
Experience and preferences
Learn what feels familiar and sustainable.
Ask what feels familiar, enjoyable, unappealing, or worth learning.
- Past programs and equipment
- Activity preferences
- Instruction and feedback style
Schedule and access
Design around real constraints.
Ask for realistic time, location, equipment, travel, and access constraints.
- Days and session length
- Training settings
- Equipment and accessibility needs
Coaching relationship
Set expectations before the first session.
Clarify accountability, communication, check-in frequency, and previous barriers.
- Check-in channel and cadence
- Helpful accountability
- Barriers and questions
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Fitness questionnaire questions
Practical answers for trainers and gyms preparing a useful client onboarding form.
What is a fitness questionnaire?
A fitness questionnaire gathers goals, activity, experience, preferences, availability, and relevant health or movement history before training. It prepares an onboarding conversation; it is not a diagnosis or professional assessment.
What questions should a personal trainer ask a new client?
Ask about goals, motivation, timeline, activity, training experience, preferences, schedule, equipment, relevant injuries or conditions, restrictions, and coaching style. End with an open question.
How long should a fitness questionnaire be?
Tie every question to an onboarding decision. Separate goals, activity, history, and logistics, then use conditional follow-ups for injury details or remote equipment.
Can the questionnaire ask about injuries and health history?
Ask only for details relevant to your service and provide room for context. Decide how responses will be reviewed before publishing. The questionnaire records disclosures; it does not provide diagnosis or treatment.
Can different answers reveal different follow-up questions?
Yes. A reported injury can reveal context and restriction questions, while remote coaching can reveal equipment and space questions. Other clients skip those fields.
Is this fitness questionnaire generator free?
Yes. Makeform provides unlimited free forms and responses, so you can generate, edit, publish, and collect client questionnaires without a response cap. The paid tier removes the Makeform badge.
How should I use responses before the first session?
Review goals, activity, schedule, preferences, and answers needing clarification. Confirm your understanding and discuss expectations and next steps with the client.
Can I adapt one questionnaire for gym and online clients?
Yes. Share core questions for goals, activity, experience, and history, then branch to gym equipment and visit times or online space, uploads, and check-ins.
Start onboarding with the full picture.
Generate a fitness questionnaire built around your clients and coaching style.
Unlimited free forms and responsesFour editable prompt examplesGoals, history, activity, and schedule