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The ‘TEAR-FActory’ Personal Trainer Model for habit formation

6 guiding principles of a Personal Trainer that’ll help you design a new breed of products that enable people to achieve their life goals

Abhishek Gupta
Better Humans
3 min readMar 11, 2015

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There is no dearth of health and fitness apps that promise to help you improve your life in every meaningful way possible. They can help you lose weight, stop drinking and smoking, eat well, sleep better, exercise more, be fitter, track any body metric you can imagine, run, bike, practice yoga, meditate, challenge your brain, train your thoughts, regulate your emotions, be more mindful in your day and basically be just that bit more happier.

These apps are in many ways like a personal trainer in your pocket. But are they able to fully deliver on that promise?

Here are the key principles of the model I’ve developed, that great personal trainers abide by and you can use to make your product more effective at creating healthy habits that stick.

*TEAR-FActory is an acronym for Trust, Education, Assessment, Regimen, Feedback and Accountability.

  1. TRUST
    Establish credibility and build trust
    : Come across as an authority on the subject matter; people believe and follow trainers they can trust. Share evidence for the…

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Abhishek Gupta
Abhishek Gupta

Written by Abhishek Gupta

Product and Design Leader. [Behavior & habit design. Story-telling. Frameworks and mental models.] https://gum.co/framework/

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