To help you stick with your fitness goals, a new service connects you with personal trainers via Skype, email, and texting. (T-Design/shutterstock.com)
Having trouble sticking with your exercise routine? If so, a new online fitness coaching program called Sessions[1] can give you access to trainers via Skype, texting, and email.
Sessions, which just launched commercially, pairs users with coaches who can help you improve your fitness via regular sit-downs via Skype to discuss your daily routines and goals, and how to better go about achieving them. Users complete a diagnostic test, and they meet with their coaches online to discuss a fitness plan. After that, your coach will monitor your workouts via the data collected from wearable fitness devices such as Fitbit[2] or Nike Fuelband[3] , if you've got one, or via regularly reports from you.
The 12-week program costs $69, $79 or $199 depending on the level of intensity.
Mobihealthnews[4] reports that this summer, the San Francisco-based company Sessions, a Rock Health alum, enrolled 80 subjects in a randomized control trial of its service at the Mayo Clinic[5] , where they completed a pilot last year. Since the trial is still on-going, no findings are yet available.
References
- ^ Sessions (www.joinsessions.com)
- ^ Fitbit (www.fitbit.com)
- ^ Nike Fuelband (www.nike.com)
- ^ Mobihealthnews (mobihealthnews.com)
- ^ Mayo Clinic (www.mayoclinic.com)
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