Virtuagym has launched Virtuagym AI Coach, a new coaching tool driven by Artificial Intelligence that instantly creates tailored workouts for users based on their specific requirements, inputted via a chat interface.
Initially available for the consumer app, future plans include extending the feature to trainers, health clubs and corporate businesses already using Virtuagym software. The AI Coach delivers fully automated training support and education for users of all capabilities, experience and resources. Integrated within the Virtuagym Fitness mobile app and broader mobile app ecosystem, the AI Coach allows users to specify their requests into a chat conversation, including their preferences such as fitness goals, exercise level, preferred equipment, muscle groups, age or duration of exercise. The AI Coach subsequently provides the user with a personal workout fitting those needs, complete with exercise instructions, sets, repetitions and 3D-animated exercise videos. After receiving the workout, the user can either directly do the workout at home or in the gym, save it to their personal in-app workout library or schedule it into their activity calendar.
The AI Coach is connected with other Virtuagym features, such as activity and heart rate tracking using wearables, body composition monitoring, nutrition coaching and gamification with challenges. “The Virtuagym AI Coach is a prime example of how technology can make fitness and health more accessible and personalised than ever before, empowering people of all fitness levels to receive tailored workout plans through artificial intelligence,” says Hugo Braam, CEO and Co-Founder of Virtuagym. “We believe this new solution is a real game-changer for individual exercise, but in the near future also for our business clients who are interested in making personalised coaching more efficient either through self-management or by empowering trainers to use AI.”
