🏋️ Built for Self-Employed Personal Trainers & Coaches

The Complete Business App for 1099 Personal Trainers

Track every drive between clients, gyms, and outdoor sessions. Manage revenue, equipment, certifications, and profit — all in one app. IRS-compliant mileage logs and Schedule C reports built in. Free 14-day trial.

✓ No credit card required ✓ IRS-compliant logs ✓ Your data, your Drive

📊 Self-Employed Trainer — Example Tax Savings

Between client sessions 6,500 mi
Gym, studio & bootcamp drives 2,000 mi
Equipment runs & CE travel 1,500 mi
Total business miles 10,000 mi
IRS rate (2026) × 72.5¢/mile
Tax Deduction $7,250

Self-Employed Trainers Leave Thousands Behind

You drive between every client, buy your own equipment, and carry the certifications and insurance — but without a system, half of it goes unclaimed every April.

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The Miles Between Clients Never Get Logged

Five sessions a day, fifty miles in your own car, all deductible. But "I'll write it down later" doesn't survive April, and a guess won't survive an audit. The IRS requires a contemporaneous log with date, destination, business purpose, and miles.

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Gear & Certs Quietly Disappear

Bands, kettlebells, mats, cert renewals, liability insurance. Every one is deductible — and every one tends to be a crumpled receipt in a gym bag, a charge on last month's debit card, a memory by next quarter.

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1099 Is the Edge — But Only If You Use It

W-2 gym employees can't deduct any of this — TCJA suspended unreimbursed employee expenses. As a 1099 trainer you have a real edge. The catch is that the edge only counts if you actually track and claim it.

Everything a Self-Employed Trainer Needs — in One App

TrakMiles Pro replaces the mileage notebook, the receipt shoebox, the revenue spreadsheet, and the year-end tax-prep scramble — all on your phone, all working together.

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Automatic GPS Mileage Tracking

Detects when you start driving and logs every trip between clients, gyms, studios, and outdoor sessions. No buttons, no forgetting. Each trip captured with date, location, distance, and a purpose you can label in two taps.

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Vehicle Auto-Detection

If you swap between cars, TrakMiles pairs with each vehicle's Bluetooth and tags trips automatically. Personal trips stay separate from business — clean records for both.

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Revenue Tracking by Client

Log what each client pays, when payments hit, and what's outstanding. Know exactly which clients are profitable after the drive time.

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Expense Management with Categories

Track equipment, certifications and CE, gym or studio rent, liability insurance, marketing, software, and phone use. Categorized for Schedule C automatically.

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Profit & Loss Reports

See real profit — revenue minus all expenses and mileage — by week, month, quarter, or year. Know whether your schedule actually nets, not just whether you were busy.

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Schedule C Tax Preparation

Maps mileage and expenses to Schedule C line items automatically. Compares standard mileage vs actual expenses so you claim whichever's larger. Export to PDF or CSV for your accountant.

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Company Mode — Coordinate Multiple Trainers

Running a small studio or coordinating several 1099 trainers? Company Mode breaks miles, hours, revenue, and profit down per trainer — so the schedule actually maps to dollars instead of guesses.

🏋️ Miles Self-Employed Trainers Can Deduct

🏠 Client to Client
Every drive from one client session to the next, all day long
🏢 Gym & Studio Drives
Driving to the gym or studio where you rent space to train clients
🛒 Equipment & Supply Runs
Trips to buy bands, weights, mats, and training supplies
🎓 Certifications & CE
Driving to certification courses, workshops, and CEU events
🌳 Outdoor & Park Sessions
Bootcamps, park training, and on-location sessions with clients
✅ TrakMiles Captures All of These
GPS tracks from the moment you leave to when you return — every mile, automatically

How Much Are Your Business Miles Worth?

At the 2026 IRS rate of 72.5¢ per mile, every untracked drive between clients is money you'll never get back.

72.5¢
IRS rate per mile (2026)
$7,250
Deduction at 10,000 miles
$1,595
Federal tax saved at 22% bracket
10,000
Typical trainer year miles
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Personal Trainer Tax & Mileage Questions

What self-employed personal trainers and fitness coaches need to know about tracking miles and business expenses.

Can self-employed personal trainers deduct mileage?
It depends on how you're paid. 1099 / self-employed trainers — independent coaches, contract trainers, and trainers who run their own business — can deduct all business miles at 72.5¢/mile for 2026. W-2 gym employees generally cannot deduct unreimbursed business expenses on their federal return under the 2017 TCJA (a few states still allow it on the state return). Driving from home to your first client is a non-deductible commute; the drives between sessions afterward are fully deductible. See our full personal trainer tax guide for the breakdown.
What other expenses can a 1099 personal trainer deduct?
Fitness equipment (bands, dumbbells, kettlebells, TRX, mats), certifications and continuing education (NASM, ACE, ISSA, NSCA), gym or studio rent and pay-to-train fees, professional liability insurance, marketing and website costs, training and scheduling software, branded apparel, business use of phone and internet, and a home office if you have a space used regularly and exclusively for the business. Self-employed health insurance premiums are also generally deductible as an adjustment to income.
Can personal trainers claim a home office deduction?
Yes, if a space in your home is used regularly and exclusively for the business side of training — building programs, scheduling, billing, or running virtual sessions. The simplified method is $5 per square foot up to 300 square feet, for a maximum deduction of $1,500 per year. The "exclusively" rule is the catch: the living room where you sometimes do paperwork doesn't qualify; a dedicated desk or home studio used only for the business does.
How many business miles does a personal trainer drive?
A busy trainer who travels to clients typically drives 30–80 business miles a day — between sessions, gyms, studios, and outdoor locations. Across a year that's commonly 8,000–15,000+ business miles. At the 2026 rate, 10,000 miles is roughly $7,250 in deductions — about $1,595 in actual federal tax savings at the 22% bracket, plus a reduction in self-employment tax. Use our free calculator to see your exact number.
Standard mileage rate or actual expenses?
For most trainers driving a personal car the standard rate (72.5¢/mile for 2026) is simpler and often larger. Actual expenses can win for higher-cost vehicles with heavy maintenance. Either way, a contemporaneous mileage log with date, destination, business purpose, and miles is required — that's what TrakMiles Pro keeps for you automatically.
Is TrakMiles Pro free for personal trainers?
TrakMiles Pro offers a 14-day free trial with no credit card required. After the trial, monthly ($4.99/mo) or annual ($34.99/yr) gives unlimited GPS mileage tracking, Vehicle Auto-Detection, revenue tracking, expense management, P&L reports, time clock, and Schedule C tax prep. One app replaces the notebook, the receipt shoebox, and the April scramble.

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