Jan 1st, 2016 — San Francisco based Raise the Bar Fitness aims to attract new members by offering a discounted Fitbod subscription with a new gym membership. Fitbod further plans to measure the impact of virtual personal training on membership retention.

Additionally, gym-goers will be able to shop Raise the Bar’s bench of personal trainers when additional help or motivation is needed — all through the app.

Nick Cerone, owner of Raise-the-Bar, says he see’s a unique marketing channel in fitbod:

I’m excited to see how fitbod will change the gym experience for both our gym members and personal training clients. We hope the app will allow us to better target gym services members. Just finished a few sets of deadlifts? Fitbod will show you the trainers who specialize in that exericse.

Gym partnerships are key for fitbod to reach it’s target market:with 59 million Americans today owning memberships and visiting the gym twice a week. In addition, 25 million Americans utilize fitness equipment at home. Fitbod helps these gym-goers make the best use of the gym with highly personalized self-guided workouts (Source / Source)

Fitbod leads in smart fitness guidance.

Products in this space offer personalized workout & nutrition plans that are computer created, using predictive analytics and machine learning. With this tech, Fitbod builds custom fit exercise routines that understand your strength-training ability and evolve as you make progress. Current leaders in Health & Fitness sell fixed exercise plans, compiled by human editors, expensive to create and difficult to adapt to unique fitness needs.

In July 2016, Apple featured Fitbod under “New Apps we Love” and “Plan & Log” within the Health & Fitness category. Since launching in Sept 2015, Fitbod ranks in the top grossing Health & Fitness apps. Today, users log over 250,000 exercises per week from personalized workout plans created by Fitbod’s automated workout builder.

Raise the Bar Fitness is a private personal training studio in San Francisco for trainers, clients and general members.

All trainers working out of Raise the Bar Fitness are certified by a major health organization, independently insured, and AED and CPR certified.

Fitbod builds custom-fit strength workouts uniquely designed for you. When you’re ready to workout, fitbod generates a recommended routine — in real-time — that efficiently targets your fresh muscles with the most suitable exercises. More about fitbod »

Fitbod partners with Raise-the-Bar to arm gym-goers with smart fitness guidance. was originally published in Fitbod on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Workouts within reach

With Watch, you can do the heavy lifting. See exercises at a glance, track your progress and stay focused while training.

Keep a steady pace

Rest timing between sets can influence muscle development. With Watch, rest for the optimal period for any exercise and strength-training style.

Find new strength in 2017

Resistance training not only builds muscle, but also prevents disease, improves mood and reduces weight. You’ll be amazed how easy it is to work out with fitbod for Watch, every time you hit the gym.

Fitbod builds custom-fit strength workouts uniquely designed for you. When you’re ready to workout, fitbod generates a recommended routine — in real-time — that efficiently targets your fresh muscles with the most suitable exercises. More about fitbod »

Introducing Fitbod for  WATCH was originally published in Fitbod on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Maximize your available equipment.

Did you know there are 150 different exercises you can do with dumbbells? It’s possible to build exercise variation into a workout with just a few pieces of equipment. Remember, mixing up exercises between workouts is critical to sustain strength gains.

With fitbod, you can generate workouts that maximize the use of your available equipment at your gym, work our home. Find the Available Equipment option in your Elite Settings.

Mix up your routine for sustained results.

Mixing up exercises, reps, and weight between workouts is critical to maximize fitness gains. With resistance training, the body adapts over time to physical stress with muscle gains. If you do the same exercises over and over, however, your progress may slow down as your body habituates to repetitive movement patterns.

Fitbod builds workout variation into the exercise routine and sets/rep scheme. You can also mix it up by tapping Replace on any exercise and picking a comparable exercise.

Rest for the optimal time between sets.

The Question: how long should you rest between sets? The answer depends on your goal. For example, the goals of strength, stamina or size may require a different amount of rest between sets.

With fitbod, you can see the optimal rest period for any given exercise & fitness goal in a simple countdown timer. Turn REST:ON to activate the rest timer.

Prevent overtraining by listening to your body.

Exerting maximum effort in every workout can actually slow, stop or reverse training gains. Overtraining occurs when the volume and intensity of the exercise exceeds your recovery capacity.

With a self-guided workout plan, it’s important to listen to your body and adjust your gameplan to prevent over-doing it. With fitbod, set your perceived muscle soreness and generate a workout that hits muscles ready to be worked out. Find Edit Muscle Recoveryin your Elite settings.

Fitbod builds custom-fit strength-training workouts and leads the emerging category of smart fitness guidance. Today, fitbod users log over 50,000 exercises per week from personalized workout plans created by fitbod’s automated workout builder. More about fitbod »

Master four strength-training strategies with fitbod was originally published in Fitbod on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

For example, fitbod will look at the exercises from your last workout and quickly generate your next workout. It’s also possible to tell fitbod which muscles you want to hit — or even a single exercise you want to do — and fitbod fill in a complete workout routine. Click the button below for four easy ways to hit the gym with a gameplan.

Generate a workout from your muscle recovery state

With this option, fitbod will crunch your recent workout numbers and create a complete workout from your muscle recovery state.

The exercises, sets, reps and weight are picked to align with your fitness goal (for example, Bodybuilding vs. Muscle Tone), available equipment & more.

Target individual muscle groups

Select a few muscle groups you want to work out and fitbod will generate a workout that hits them with the most suitable exercises.

With your Elite settings, you can get exercises that use the available equipment at your home, gym or work.

Pick an exercise as a starting point

Select one or more exercises and let fitbod fill in the rest of your workout. For example, say you are doing a Decline Bench Press today. Set this as a starting exercise and fitbod will not only suggest more Chest exercises, but also mix in some abs and lower back to make sure you’re strengthening the critical core muscle groups.

Create your own workout from scratch

You can also create your own workout by selecting indiviudal exercises from our database of over 300 exercises.

Try out the “Replace” feature to discover fun, comparable exercises that target the same muscles with similar equipment.

Tap the “New” button in the top left corner of the “Workout” tab to find these four exercise creation options.

Fitbod builds custom-fit strength-training workouts and leads the emerging category of smart fitness guidance. Today, fitbod users log over 50,000 exercises per week from personalized workout plans created by fitbod’s automated workout builder. More about fitbod »

Build your next workout with fitbod’s machine intelligence. was originally published in Fitbod on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.