This New Year, Don’t Work Out Alone

1-on-1 fitness companion, anywhere, anytime you want.

Vignesh Prabhu
Physique AI
3 min readJan 1, 2021

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For many of us, its Day 1 of our fitness resolutions.

Every year, 80% of us who set resolutions, fail to stick with it for more than three months.

The uphill battle of keeping our resolutions is familiar, but this year is different. The pandemic changed our daily lives, and our ambition to stay healthy at home has grown stronger than ever.

But something hasn’t changed — exercising alone still feels tedious. We try to keep up with workout videos that move fast, all the while doubtful if we’re following it right. It’s also distracting to keep track of our reps and duration at the same time. Wearables today don’t track metrics beyond our heart rate, calories and steps. Naturally, we lose enthusiasm after the first few weeks, and it’s not our fault.

With no one to appreciate our progress and accomplishments, home workouts feel aimless.

As beginners ourselves, whenever we tried new movements, a doubt bothered us — ‘Am I doing this right?. Most people beginning their fitness journey do so in an unsupervised setting. Personal trainers help ensure we learn and maintain correct form. Unfortunately, time and financial commitments often keep many people away from hiring trainers.

This drove us to build Physique AI. It’s an app that gives instant 1-on-1 voice feedback to improve your posture and encourage you to push further while you’re exercising alone.

We’re delighted to announce that the preview is now available to download for Android and iOS.

With your smartphone’s front camera, Physique AI:

Tracks body movement in real-time.

Gives voice suggestions in English and Hindi to help improve your posture and cheer you on.

Counts repetitions automatically so you don’t need to type them into your phone after every set

We believe personalised support is instrumental in helping us exercise more and turn it into a lifelong habit. In the absence of it, many hesitate to begin or practice movements with incorrect posture.

Physical inactivity is as deadly as smoking.

Our goal is to make the personal fitness training experience accessible to everyone so we can help more people get confident in their fitness journey.

The preview version is free and will always remain free. We hope you’ll try it out and let us know what you think.

Download the preview today from the Google Play Store (for Android) or the App Store (for iOS). Your feedback and suggestions are very welcome at hello@physique.ai.

P.S — For our first 1000 users, we are offering 4 months of premium at no cost when we launch later this year :)

Wishing you an active and fulfilling new year,
The Physique AI Team

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