Video workouts are the perfect solution to deliver complete follow-along sessions, such as bootcamps, Tabata workouts, yoga flows, or HIIT routines, allowing your clients to follow your instructions in real time.
This guide will cover everything you need to get started with video workouts.
What are Video Workouts?
Video workouts are one of the four workout types available in ABC Trainerize. Unlike Regular, Circuit, or Interval workouts, where you build a workout from multiple individual exercises, video workouts let you upload a full-length video up to 60 minutes long. Once created, your video workouts can be added to a Master Program or a Client's Program, just like any other workout type.
In order for clients to be able to stream Video Workouts, you must purchase the Video Coaching Add-on.
How to Create a Video Workout
Video Workouts can only be created from the Master Workouts > Shared Folder section in your account. You cannot create a Video Workout from a Master Program or a Client's Program directly, like you can with other workout types. Visit Why Can't I Upload Video Workouts to My Personal Folder? for more details.
1. Navigate to your ABC Trainerize Master Workout Library and select the Shared Folder.
2. Select the blue New button to create a new workout.
3. Give your workout a name and select the Video workout type. Click Start Building.
4. In the Video Workout dialog on the right, add any instructions and/or tags to the workout. Drag and drop or upload a video from your desktop. When finished, click SAVE AND UPLOAD.
- Video workouts can be uploaded in .mp4 or .mov files up to 60 minutes (or 5GB).
- Landscape videos are recommended.
5. After clicking save, you'll see a pop-up at the bottom right of your screen. While the video uploads, you can continue to upload another video.
- It's important to stay on the same page as the video uploads, otherwise the upload will be cancelled.
6. Once you've uploaded and saved your video workout, you can go back into the workout to add closed captions.
7. Now that your Video Workout has been created, you can now import it to any Master or Client Program.
Uploading Times
.MOV files typically need more time to upload. If you're looking to speed up upload time, you can compress .MOV files before uploading. Visit How to Pre-Compress Video Workouts to Speed up Uploading Times for more details.
Video Upload Guidelines
Here are a few technical notes to keep in mind:
- The duration of the video can be up to 60 min.
- The video formats supported are .MOV and .mp4 files.
- Video orientation: please ensure your video is in landscape format.
- Replacing a video for an existing workout will delete the previous one, cannot be recovered once you agree
- Replacing the video will trickle down to all linked instances (i.e. in Master Programs and Client Programs)
- Editing the name or instructions will not trickle down to the linked instances.
- You cannot create a new video workout from a Master Program or a client's Custom Program. However, you can import a video workout from your Master Workouts to any program.
Check out these best tips for creating killer video classes and workouts!
How to Import a Video Workout to a Program
Once your video workout is uploaded and saved in your Master Workouts, you can import it to any Master Program or Client Program.
1. Navigate to the desired training phase within a Master Program or Client Program.
2. Select Import > Master Workouts > Shared Workouts.
3. Choose the video workout from your Master Workout Shared Library and select Import.
Note: You cannot import the same video workout more than once into a single training phase. The following error message will appear:
Key Things To Know:
- Video workouts are linked to the Master Workout version. Imported instances cannot be edited, only deleted.
- Updates to the video workout file from the Master Workout library will update all linked instances of that video workout.
- Updates to the name or description of the video workout, however, will not update linked instances of that video workout.
Pricing for Video Coaching Add-on
To make your video workouts available for clients, you will need to purchase the Video Coaching add-on, which includes video workout streaming credits.
- The Video Coaching Add-on is only available on paid subscriptions plans.
- Streaming time is the total amount of time your clients collectively spend watching your video workouts.
- Streaming begins when a client presses play on a workout video.
- Closing and rewatching a video again counts as a new stream.
- When skipping ahead to different timestamps in a video (i.e., scrubbing forward or backward), only the time spent actually playing the video counts toward streaming time. For example, watching 5 minutes of a video and then jumping ahead 5 minutes and watching for another 10 minutes, counts as 15 minutes of streaming time, not 20 minutes.
- Streaming time is consumed by 1-minute intervals.
For more information on streaming time and purchasing the Video Coaching Add-on, visit our help article here.
