The health software program options supplier has launched a retrofit sensor that turns any stack weight machine right into a related coaching expertise
Virtuagym has launched its newest answer, Virtuagym Join, a retrofit sensor that attaches to present stack weight machines to routinely observe repetitions, units and weights and gamifies the coaching expertise.
Unveiled on the Well being & Health Affiliation (HFA) Convention in Amsterdam, Virtuagym Join will roll out first within the Benelux area and Germany this month, with a wider European and worldwide launch slated for early 2026.
“With Virtuagym Join, we’re making energy coaching smarter, extra enjoyable and extra accessible to a wider viewers,” Virtuagym co-founder and CEO Hugo Braam stated. “Our aim is to assist golf equipment ship partaking, results-driven coaching at a fraction of the price of costly sensible machines. This innovation empowers members to remain motivated, whereas giving golf equipment the instruments they should present a tremendous coaching expertise, with out the necessity to swap to electrical resistance or giant investments.”

The brand new providing integrates with the Virtuagym platform and supplies real-time suggestions that turns progress into motivation. Whereas it helps give learners a approach to construct much-needed confidence, skilled members profit from gaining measurable information and selection to maintain coaching partaking.
The promoting level for membership operators, nevertheless, is that Virtuagym Join integrates with present tools, eliminating the necessity for pricey investments and decreasing guide monitoring for trainers.
“Membership operators usually don’t need to lock themselves down in closed software program ecosystems that sure suppliers are constructing, the place there’s restricted alternative on who to combine and share information with,” Braam stated. “Our imaginative and prescient has at all times been to serve the desires and pursuits of our clients first, by creating a real open platform that performs good with everybody. Virtuagym Join suits this imaginative and prescient because it lets operators keep absolutely unbiased when negotiating new tools purchases, which is normally one among their greatest investments.”
Join additionally hyperlinks with Virtuagym’s Max AI Coach, a newly-launched tool that generates personalized workouts, diet app and physique composition kiosk. Later this 12 months, members will earn Fitpoints and compete on leaderboards, increasing the gamification of energy coaching.

