The accelerating virtualization of fitness has increased demand for online personal coaching. But will this trend continue in the future?

These days, there are a number of reasons why online personal coaching is gaining momentum: the omnipresence of digital tools, the pandemic, consumers' quest for physical and mental well-being, the high cost of face-to-face coaching, and so on .

To meet this new demand in the fitness market, the online solution is the perfect alternative. In the following lines, we'll go into a little more detail on the ins and outs of this type of coaching in an article by AZEOO.

Why choose remote coaching?

Remote coaching has many advantages, including some major aspects that clients and coaches alike no longer overlook:

• It's profitable for both you and your customers.
• It offers fewer time slot problems.
• It brings greater productivity.
• It enables coaching in a much larger geographical area (and even in other countries).

Online personal coaching in various forms

Discover the different forms of online coaching and all their advantages:

1. Access to premium content (as in AZEOO, for example) for a monthly subscription fee. This may include online courses, videos, infographics, articles or reformulated scientific studies. All of these elements can cover fitness, nutrition, but also motivation and mental well-being.
2. Generic programs for a fee or monthly subscription. You write nutritional and sports programs and deliver them to everyone for their use.
3. Personalized coaching, where customers receive a sports or nutritional program and daily or weekly follow-up. Customers can also have personal sessions via videoconference.

Keeping customers motivated

Despite the advantages of distance coaching, you shouldn't overlook the various disadvantages your clients may encounter through it. For example, motivation often declines very quickly, and this can lead to drop-outs and demotivation. You'll have to rely on the effectiveness of your message to motivate the troops.

You'll need to juggle different media and social networks to keep them in a constant flow of positive energy. The best would be to have an all-in-one tool that would enable you to offer follow-up, contact with your members and allow you to publish motivational messages. With this in mind, AZEOO has developed a personalized coaching software tailored to the needs of a specific clientele. With this sports application, you have a wide range of tools at your disposal to keep your customers motivated.

Online progress monitoring

Being able to track the progress and completion of your client's various workouts is a great way of checking whether their motivation is waning, but also whether they're on the right track. Once again, AZEOO lets you do just that, thanks to its workout and sports program sharing options.

Connected objects are also very useful for tracking your customer's biometric data (on Strava, for example). This solves the problem of lack of real-time information during exercise.