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When boutique fitness was still alive and well, trainers spent as much time fostering community as they did curating banging playlists and designing sweaty workouts. That is until COVID-19 and the resulting quarantine measures put businesses like Barrys Bootcamp, SLT, and Mile High Run Club on pause. Now, fitness instructors and on-demand workout apps have more of an impetus than ever before to make digitalcomradery a priority. And Ladder Teams, a workout app launched today as the Slack of Fitness, proves that (socially distanced) teamwork makes the (workout) dream work.

A subscription to Ladder Teams costs $60 per month and digitizes all of the bonding that naturally happens in your favorite yoga, spin, or HIIT studio by allowing you to pick a program taught by some of the countrys best instructors (like Jennifer Jacon of Peloton and Taylor Walker of Barrys Bootcamp) and assigning you to a team with other users who choose that same trainer. As you move through the exercise regimen workout-through-workout, youll be able to interact with the instructor and your teammates through an in-app chat room that looks a lot like a fitness-friendly Slackwhich keeps coworkers connectedand allows you to celebrate PRs, tough workouts, and great rest days in the company of others.

Folks used to go to the gym or used to go to a studio and get a group fitness experience are craving a community element that really became core to their fitness life and their fitness experience. Greg Stewart, CEO of Ladder

In a sense, quarantine turbo-charged the trend of increased community in the world of digital fitness that was already on our radar in late 2019. These sweat-centric apps are projected to grow 21.1 percent by 2026, reaching a global net worth of $10.1 billion. In late 2019, Chris Stadler, chief managing officer at Tonal, told Well+Good that making the apps themselves a social network would be the next logical next step for anyone. We know community can be a huge motivator, and our members have organically latched on to sharing their stats, favorite coaches, or programs they have completed within the group, so a natural progression would be to enable interactions within our product or via our app, he said. In the isolating, stressful wake of COVID-19 Ladder also recognized that need.

As quarantine measures ramped up, Stewart and his team saw more and more opportunity for honing the social component of on-demand fitness. [COVID-19l was just a huge lightbulb and an accelerator for us to make sure that we put all of our efforts and resources into this product, Greg Stewart, CEO of Ladder, tells Well+Good. Folks used to go to the gym or used to go to a studio and get a group fitness experience are craving a community element that really became core to their fitness life and their fitness experience. Thats just been gone for the bar with COVID, so with Ladder, were kind of bring back that social, connective tissue.

Erica Robles-Anderson, PhD, a professor at New York University who focuses on how technology creates a sense of space, looks at the interactions taking place on Ladder, Peloton, Tonal, Mirror, and more. She sees a fitness future thats part-game, part-sweaty utopia: an online gym thats first pillar is community. What you end up with is a new set of online spaces that help us feel like were doing something personal. But, at the same time, were doing it together with a new set of people who have the same set of feelings about how they want to live their lives, says Dr. Robles-Anderson. Clearly, during COVID-19, many of us want to live a life in which social fitness keeps us accountable, inspired, and ready to sweat.

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