Another Round
Summary of the collaboration
Another Round is a personal training app launched in 2021, and has been vital to the testing, training and development of VOR’s custom built AI. The VOR Engine allows Another Round’s PTs to supply their clients with high quality, bespoke workouts in seconds.
In this case study, we explore how VOR’s technology has been integrated into Another Round’s platform, driving growth and improving client retention.
Key Drivers
1. Bespoke integration
VOR’s technology currently serves as a powerful supplementary tool for trainers using Another Round. The VOR engine has been uniquely tailored to meet the platform’s specific needs, serving everyday athletes, remotely. This bespoke approach ensures that our technology seamlessly aligns with Another Round’s goals and enhances their existing services.
2. Enhanced client experience
Since integrating VOR’s technology, data is showing that Another Round has seen significant improvements in key performance metrics, including client retention, workout success rates, and workout completion.
3. Scaleability
VOR technology is infinitely scalable (in theory), and gives fitness businesses the ability to provide the same quality of services no matter how large their client base, and has been an essential component to Another Round’s fast growth.
The Challenge
The Opportunity
What VOR did
The introduction of the VOR engine has had a transformative effect on Another Round’s operations. By automating the time-consuming tasks of researching and planning workout routines, VOR allows trainers to dedicate more time to the human aspects of their role—such as motivation, accountability, support, and safeguarding.
Moreover, the VOR engine optimises workout plans to make the most effective use of available equipment and space, ensuring that each client’s experience is personalised and efficient.
This increased efficiency has enabled Another Round to handle a greater volume of clients with higher levels of personalisation, improving quality, operational efficiency and customer satisfaction.
“Since using the VOR engine I’ve been able to significantly speed up programme creation and delivery, leaving me with more time to spend on the building of client relationships & showing of support. Which I believe (and most coaches would agree) is the most integral part in this line of work. The engine has also helped me broaden my exercise selection and create more varied styles of programmes, switching out movements I’d normally pick out of habit or comfort.” – Dan Ward, PT
The results
Approximately 40,000 workouts completed by members of Another Round to date (2024)
Invaluable testing, training and development of the VOR Engine
Reduced programming time by up to 80%, allowing trainers to focus more on client interaction and feedback.
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FAQs
We know that personal trainers add huge value to gyms and the fitness industry, and many of their skills can't be replaced by technology.
Vor automates the workout creation portion of a trainer's role. It can be used by personal trainers in planning workout programmes and classes. Alternatively, Vor can be used directly by exercisers with varying degrees of trainer supervision, customisation and control.
No. When it comes to your tech stack, Vor can integrate with your internal or external applications via API.
For example, Vor workouts can be delivered via an existing member app directly to exercisers. Or, Vor can be made available via an existing trainer portal to assist teams with workout programming.
If you don't have a tech stack in place, Vor can be accessed by a simple web application from any device.
From a gym equipment perspective, Vor creates workouts customised to your available equipment and gym floor layout. You don't need to invest in any new gym equipment to embed Vor into your operations.
Vor has been intentionally designed by our experienced team of AI experts and personal trainers every step of the way. Rooted in exercise science best practices, it uses parameters for injuries, targets, training environments and backgrounds to make sure that workouts are safe, appropriate and effective for exercisers.
There is no erroneous data or guesswork within the Vor engine - every workout generated is reliable, explainable and traceable.
Our automation engine is not a plugin to a Large Language Model (LLM) like ChatGPT, which often provides unreliable and unpredictable results that might look good enough to the untrained eye, but aren’t safe or appropriate for exercisers.
We have been pioneering our unique technology since 2021 and it is engineered specifically for physical exercise. LLMs, on the other hand, are generalist devices designed to mimic human language, rather than find the right answer. This is potentially injurious in fitness, when the wrong answer, delivered confidently to the end user, could easily lead to injury.
The Vor Engine has consistently and significantly outperformed LLMs (and specifically ChatGPT) in workout creation from both a quality and safety standpoint since we launched our first full working version for testing in 2023.
Today, our tech benchmarks at 100-200 X faster workout generation for personal trainers when compared with writing personalised workout programmes manually. This is a hugely significant time and cost saving for your bottom-line.
