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Equinox Personal Training

Equinox 2018

This end-to-end redesign of Equinox’s personal training system aimed to solve two problems of attrition. Both the personal training client churn rate and the number of trainers quitting were increasing year over year.

After immersive research, we identified the core drivers of this decline — lack of percieved value for clients, and trainers overburdened with admin work. Our new solution modernizes the client experience and provides direct indicators of value over time, while drastically reducing the trainer workload.

As the new solution rolled out in waves across the country, we recieved excellent preliminary results:

  • 4.5/5 star rating from trainers.
  • 100% said it will be valuable for their clients.
a diagram of the personal training experience, with lines for the client, trainer, and brand
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Our research highlighted how much extra work trainers (blue) were doing for every client touchpoint (red). Meanwhile the brand (black) was barely involved in the client experience.
screenshots of the existing web application and google spreadsheet tools used by trainers
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The existing system was a mixture of old-school web dashboard, Google sheets, and 3rd party messaging services. Trainers had to bounce between all three systems, while clients got an un-polished, un-branded experience.
An application screen showing a list of upcoming client appointments.
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The new app's homescreen prioritizes the trainer's time. Is my business tracking well? Who am I seeing today? What am I doing with them?
A list of clients showing their fitness progress over time
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Drilling into the client list view, trainers can easily see client progress over time. This information previously spanned several apps and websites. Viewing it all at once creates more opportunies to give clients positive news.
A detailed view of one single client, showing their progress and upcoming appointments
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The client object dynamically expands to show relevant information in each view. Here we see a snapshot of this client's progress over time and committment to future sessions.
A list of fitness goals in progress.
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The new milestones feature lets trainers and clients directly establish measureable goals, which are visible in real-time across trainer and client apps.