The numbers, rules and words on this page are the ones the Supplements module applies today in the plan, the library and the client's profile. To build a plan step by step, see Create a supplement plan for your clients and Set a supplement's amount, frequency and doses.
Limits
The limits are grouped by the part of the module where you find them.
The plan and the supplements
| What | Limit | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| Plan name | 1 to 100 characters. | On the screen for creating a plan and in the plan page's title, the field does not let you type more. On the plan page, an empty name is not saved, nor is a name longer than 100 characters typed in Settings. |
| Plan description, in Settings | Up to 5000 characters. | A longer text is not saved. |
| Supplements in a plan | No limit when you add them one by one. | The screen for creating a plan saves up to 50 at once. With more than 50 supplements in the plan, Undo and Redo fail, and with more than 200 the order goes back when you drag a card. |
| Supplement name | Up to 150 characters, in the plan and in the library. | The field does not let you type more. |
| Brand | Up to 100 characters. | The field does not let you type more. |
| Supplement note | Up to 200 characters. | The field does not let you type more. |
| Purchase link | Starts with https://, has up to 2048 characters and has no spaces, backslashes, username or password. | “Paste a complete https:// link without spaces or sign-in details.” appears and the link is not saved. |
| Product photo | One image. | Before uploading it, the browser reduces the photo to about 8 MB and 2560 px on the longer side at most. The photo uses the account's storage space. |
Periods, doses and amounts
| What | Limit | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| Periods of a supplement | Up to 20. | At the 20th, Add period is disabled. |
| Duration of a period | 1 to 3650 days. A week counts as 7 days and a month as 30. | Only the last period can have no end. “Choose between 1 and 3650 days.” appears when the duration, counted in days (a week is 7, a month 30), is not a whole number or falls outside 1 to 3650; for example, 0.5 months is 15 days and saves. |
| Custom name of a period | Up to 50 characters. | The field does not let you type more. |
| Doses per day in a period | 1 to 20. | Outside this range, “Choose between 1 and 20 doses.” appears and the number does not change. With 20 doses, Add dose is disabled. |
| Note of a dose | Up to 500 characters. | The field does not let you type more. |
| Every N days | N from 1 to 365. | With the field empty, 2 is saved. |
| N days per week | 1 to 7. | The counter does not go beyond these values. |
| Amount of a dose | 0 to 99,999,999.99, stored with two decimal places. You can type it with a comma or a point. | The field only accepts digits and one separator. When empty, it shows “Enter an amount of zero or more.”. In Between minimum and maximum, a maximum lower than the minimum shows “The maximum must be at least the minimum.”. |
| Custom unit | Up to 20 characters. | The field does not let you type more. |
Periods are covered in Split a supplement into periods: loading and maintenance.
Library, lists and shortcuts
| What | Limit | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| Plans and supplements per page | 20, in the plan list and in the library. | The rest are on the following pages. |
| Favorites | 200 per person. Each team member has their own. | “You have reached the limit of 200 favorites” appears. |
| Usage note and Anti-doping note | Up to 500 and up to 200 characters. | The field does not let you type more. |
| Custom form | Up to 30 characters. | The field does not let you type more. |
| Undo | Up to 50 steps, while the plan page is open. | Reloading or leaving the page clears the steps. It does not undo the plan name, the Settings or the assignments. |
| Copy and Paste | One supplement at a time, for 24 hours. | The copy stays in the browser where you copied it, for the same account and the same workspace. |
| Preview | From day 1 to day 3650 of the plan. | The arrows stop at day 1 and at day 3650. |
Copy and paste is covered in Copy and paste meals, supplements, questions and lessons.
Clients, logs and reminders
| What | Limit | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| Clients in one assignment | Up to 500 at a time. | Only clients whose coaching is active or scheduled are included. The others count as skipped. |
| Deleting several plans | No limit. | MyFitnessClient deletes them in batches of 500. |
| Logs you make on a client's day | 30 per minute, per person, counting marking, unmarking, changing a day's amount, changing the times and deleting a day together. | “Too many requests. Wait a moment.” appears. Wait a minute and carry on. |
| Days that can be logged | Today and the days that have passed, in the client's time zone. | On a day that has not come yet, “This day hasn't come yet.” appears and nothing is marked. |
| A day's amount | Greater than zero and up to 99,999,999.99. | “Enter an amount greater than zero.” appears and the panel does not close. |
| History | Up to 3000 days back, about 8 years, and never future days. | The Supplement history card shows the 5 most recent days, and the full page loads 20 days at a time. |
| Client reminders | At most one notification per client each minute. | Moments in the same minute are combined into one notification with the total number of doses. A late notification still goes out up to 15 minutes after the time. |
Assigning is covered in Assign a supplement plan to clients, and logging on the client's behalf in Log a client's supplement doses and view the history.
Team permissions
In a team workspace, each action requires the member to have a permission. The workspace owner has all of them.
| What you do | Permission |
|---|---|
| Open Supplements, see the plan list and the library, open a plan, Preview and mark favorites | Supplements > View |
| Create plan, New supplement and Copy to My Library | Supplements > Create |
| Duplicate a plan | Supplements > View and Create |
| Change a plan (name, Settings, supplements, periods and doses), copy and paste a supplement, delete plans, assign, remove and change a client's dates, and edit or delete your supplements | Supplements > Edit |
| Create personal copy of a plan for a client, in their profile | Supplements > Create and Edit |
| See the Supplements tab in a client's profile | Supplements > View |
| See a client's day, week, history and times | Clients > View |
| Mark and unmark doses for a client, change a day's amount, change the times and delete a day's logs | Clients > Create |
The module only opens if the workspace owner's plan includes Supplements, for every member. A member who only coaches the clients assigned to them only sees and assigns those clients. While the workspace has more active clients than the plan allows, you cannot save anything in Supplements, not even favorites, and “You have more active clients than your plan allows. Choose which to keep or upgrade your plan.” appears. Reading still works. To fix it, see You have more active clients than your plan allows.
How the client's day is calculated
The client's Supplements page, the Supplements tab of the profile, the history and the reminders use the same calculation. The rules apply in this order:
| Rule | How it works |
|---|---|
| Which day it is | The day in the client's time zone, never yours. Their day changes at their midnight. |
| Which plans count | The supplement plans assigned to the client by a professional with whom they have active coaching, except deleted ones. Each client has one plan from you at a time: assigning another one replaces the previous one. If what the client's plan with you includes leaves Supplements out, they do not get the day or the reminders. |
| Dates | Before the Start and after the End, the plan does not appear, and neither do the purchase links. The Start day and the End day count. |
| Plan day | The Start day is day 1. A supplement you add to a plan the client has already started counts, for that client, from the day it was added, and starts at period 1. Anyone who starts the plan later follows it from day 1. |
| Period | Periods run back to back: the first starts on day 1 and each one on the day after the previous one ends. After the last period ends, the last one continues. With Repeat the sequence, period 1 comes back after the last one. In a Washout period, the supplement has no doses on those days. |
| Frequency | Every day: on all of them. Days of the week: only on the chosen ones. Every N days: on day 1 and every N days after that. N days per week: the supplement appears every day under Weekly goal, and a day counts when all the doses of that day are marked. As needed: it never goes into the day and stays under As needed. Weekly, which only exists in old plans: on the chosen days of the week or, without days, every 7 days counting from day 1. |
| Amount | The amount of each dose, in the period's unit. Per kg of body weight: the amount times the client's latest weight, from an assessment or a check-in, rounded to the nearest ten from 100 upwards, to the nearest whole number between 10 and 100 and to one decimal place under 10. Without a weight, it appears per kg, for example “3 mg/kg”, and the dose cannot be marked. Between minimum and maximum: the range appears. Per hour of exercise: it appears with “/h”, with no calculation. If someone changed a day's amount, that day's amount applies, and a per-kg dose can be marked even without a weight. |
| Moments and times | Each dose belongs to a moment of the day. The times come from the client's five times: wake up, breakfast, lunch, dinner and bedtime. Specific time uses the time written in the dose. With a meal, With the largest meal, Any time and Split throughout the day show no time. The training moments take the time from the workout done that day, the scheduled time or the usual training time, in this order, and without any of them they have no time. The usual time does not count on a day known to be a rest day. Doses of the same moment and with the same window appear together, in order of time. |
| Day type | Training days only and Rest days only are labels: the dose appears every day. The day type only decides the reminders, and only when it is known whether the day is a training day. |
The plan preview uses the same rules without a client: day 1 is today, the times are the defaults (07:00, 08:00, 13:00, 20:00 and 23:00) and a per-kg dose appears per kg. The 17 moments, with their times and windows, are in Set a supplement's amount, frequency and doses.
How the history counts
The client's history, in the Supplement history card and on the full page, counts like this:
- Each day shows all the daily doses the plan asks for on that day. The marked ones appear as Taken and the others as Not taken: here, “not taken” means “not logged”.
- Doses under As needed and under N days per week are not part of the doses asked for. If someone marks them, they appear on that day as taken.
- The doses asked for on each day are counted with the plan as it is today. If you add, change or remove doses, the days that have passed change too.
- Logs of doses the plan no longer asks for, for example after you remove the plan or a supplement, stay there, with the name and amount they had when they were marked.
- The amount of each dose is that day's: if someone changed it for that day only, the changed amount appears.
- The days go from the start of the plan, or from the first log if it is earlier, up to the client's current day. Only days with doses asked for or with some log appear.
- The percentage in the Doses taken chart divides the doses taken by all the doses the history shows over that time range.
- Deleting a day's logs sets that day's doses back to Not taken.
- After the coaching ends, you only see the history up to the day it ended.
What MyFitnessClient does and does not do
- It stores the plan you write and shows it to the client. It does not warn you when a dose goes over a limit and does not check interactions with medicines or with other supplements.
- The usual doses in the library are only the value a supplement comes into the plan with. You change whatever you want.
- Max per dose, Usage note and Anti-doping note appear as text in the supplement's details. They do not trigger warnings or block anything.
- The Anti-doping note is the text you write. MyFitnessClient does not check or certify any product.
- The client does not have to accept anything to log their doses.
- MyFitnessClient does not sell supplements. The Purchase link opens the page you wrote, and the client reads “Purchases take place at the store.”.
Not available yet:
- counting supplements in the day's calories and macros, in Nutrition;
- stock tracking or a reminder to buy again;
- a notification for you when a client leaves doses unmarked: reminders only go to the client, and you see the doses in the history;
- scanning a supplement's barcode.
Old options that can no longer be edited
In old plans, a dose can have options that the editor no longer shows or changes: a food condition (With food, On an empty stomach, With fat, With vitamin C or With carbs), a cut-off time (Never after), a window or an offset in minutes. The food condition and the cut-off time appear as a label under the dose and in the supplement's details. The window and the offset still change the moment's times, and the offset appears in the supplement's details after the moment. These options carry over to the copy when you duplicate the plan, copy and paste the supplement, use Undo or add a period, which copies the doses of the previous one. A new dose, added with Add dose, comes without them.
Vocabulary
The help uses the words on the screen:
| Word | What it is | What the screen shows |
|---|---|---|
| Supplement plan | The supplements you assign to one or several clients. | Plans are in Supplement plans. |
| Supplement | A product inside a plan, with name, brand, photo, note and purchase link. | One card per supplement. |
| Period | A stretch of days of a supplement, with its own amount, frequency and doses. | Loading, Maintenance, Washout, Taper, Peak or a name of your own in Custom. |
| Frequency | On which days of the period the supplement appears. | Every day, Days of the week, N days per week, Every N days and As needed. Weekly only in old plans. |
| Dose | Each time the client takes the supplement in a day. | One row per dose, with Quantity, When, Days and Note. |
| Amount type | How the period's amount is read. | Fixed amount, Per kg of body weight, Per hour of exercise and Between minimum and maximum. |
| Unit | What the amount is measured in, the same for all the doses of the period. | g, mg, mcg, IU, ml, L, capsule, tablet, softgel, chewable, gummy, sachet, ampoule, scoop, tsp, tbsp, drop, spray and serving, or one of your own in Custom. |
| Moment | The time of day of a dose, with its window of hours. | The 17 moments of the When field, from On waking to Specific time. |
| Day type | On which days the dose applies. | Training and rest, Training days only and Rest days only, in the Days column. |
| Form | How the product comes, in the library. | Powder, Capsule, Tablet, Softgel, Liquid, Gel, Gummy, Chewable, Sachet, Effervescent, Spray, Drops, Bar and Drink, or one of your own in Custom. |
| Type | The supplement's family, in the library. | Health, Performance and Sports food. |