Online Fitness Program Designer
Calling all fitness lovers! We know that training to become a fitness instructor requires a lot of training in anatomy, physiology, and biochemistry, but the best fitness instructors today are reaching a wider audience by designing online fitness programs relying on the latest technology and software.
Personal Connection
- Do you love fitness?
- Are you interested in learning about emerging technology for online businesses?
- Are you excited by innovations that will assist you in designing effective fitness programs?
- Do you care about helping people live an active and healthy lifestyle?
Other Connections
STEM Connection
Online training programs are personalized with artificial intelligence:
The online fitness industry is looking at Augmented Reality to encourage more people to exercise:
5G adoption brings smart gyms and wearables to the next level:
Data-based customer insights drive innovation:
Journeys to Becoming an Online Fitness Program Designer
Brynn Putnam is a Harvard educated ballerina who studied Russian literature. She had no idea when she was in high school that she would end up building an innovative online fitness solution. She was in the health and wellness space for her whole life as a dancer and she started a fitness studio when she started to get older and wanted to figure out a better way to workout as she aged. However, when she got pregnant, her needs changed, and she started thinking about at-home fitness, which she had always seen as sacrificing quality for convenience. She heard from clients at her studio how much they loved being able to check out their form in a mirror and realized she could solve the footprint issue of traditional gym equipment and the quality issue of animated videos on a small screen with the Mirror.
When Brynn came up with the idea for Mirror, she built a prototype of the mirror in her kitchen using a tablet, piece of glass, and raspberry Pi. She knew the experience would work from her prototype, and she hired engineers to create the Mirror. The Mirror is a full-length mirror that streams live and on-demand training that is personalized in real-time based on biometric data.
Brynn believes that you can figure anything out if you focus on the end goal: “When you are focused on… what you’re building and the transformational power of your product… you figure it out by learning new things or by hiring people who know the things you don’t know. If I was not scared every day, it would probably mean that I wasn’t building something that exciting.”
Read about how this entrepreneur wanted to make health and fitness accessible to everyone:
Ethan Agarwal is the Founder and CEO of Aaptiv, an online health and wellness content app. His goal was to bring health and fitness to anyone who lives anywhere, regardless of their income level or demographic. Ethan was always entrepreneurial because of his dad, who started his own software company, but he wanted to understand how to run a business before starting his own. He got an undergraduate degree in economics and political science with a minor in business, and then he went on to get his MBA. After graduating, Ethan worked as a consultant, advising clients in technology, media, and finance.
Ethan was on the road four days of the week as a consultant and was frustrated that it was difficult for him to hire a personal trainer in most of the cities that he travelled to. He realized there was an “opportunity there to bring great training and content and guidance to a much larger audience.” That was how Aaptiv came to be, and over the course of 4 years, it grew to over 250,000 paying members.