How EGYM Genius AI Works
Genius overview
EGYM Genius uses AI to make the entire gym floor even smarter. Genius integrates leading fitness brands into a single training experience and creates hyper-personalized training plans for members that adapt to their goals, fitness levels, and all the equipment available in your gym.
What Genius does for you
For members
Genius generates fully personalized training plans directly in your gym app. You tell the system your training goals and preferences, and Genius handles the rest: selecting exercises, determining starting weights, and adjusting your plan as you get stronger.
For trainers
Genius provides trainers with suggested training plans in the EGYM Trainer App. As a trainer, you can customize these suggestions, swap exercises, adjust weights, or modify the plan to match your training philosophy. Genius saves you time while keeping you in control.
For gym operators
Genius uses your gym inventory data to ensure every member gets relevant recommendations based on the equipment you have available. This means no wasted time searching for unavailable machines or exercises.
How Genius builds your training plan
Genius generates training plans through a structured process that considers multiple factors about you and your gym.
Genius decides how many workouts per week you should do and what muscle groups to focus on each day.
This depends on the following:
How often you want to train
How long each session should be
Your fitness goal, such as Muscle Building, Weight Loss, or General Fitness
Your training background, such as Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced
For example, someone training two times per week with a strength focus might get a full-body split, while someone training four times per week might get a push/pull or upper body/lower body structure.
Genius divides your training time among strength, cardio, and flexibility exercises based on your goal. You can adjust these percentages if you prefer more or less of any type of training.
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Your training goal comes with default percentages (Muscle Building might be 70% strength, 20% cardio, 10% flexibility), but you can customize this in the app.
Refer to How does fitness goal adjustment work? for more information.
Genius picks exercises that fulfill the following requirements:
Are in your gym's exercise library
Match the equipment available in your gym inventory
Align with your fitness goal and experience level
Target the right muscle groups without exceeding any muscles you've chosen to exclude
Fit realistically into your available workout time
Genius orders exercises to make your session flow smoothly, typically starting with lower body, moving to upper body, then finishing with core work.
Genius determines how many sets and reps you should do based on the following:
Your fitness goal (muscle building typically uses 6–12 reps per set; weight loss typically uses 12–15 reps)
Your training experience
How much time you have available
The system aims to fit the right amount of training volume into your available time without making sessions feel rushed.
Genius uses your strength test results and training history to predict appropriate starting weights for every exercise.
If you've trained on similar exercises before, Genius learns from that data. For equipment you haven't used, Genius applies its trained prediction model to estimate a realistic starting point.
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Genius always rounds down to the nearest available weight increment on your gym's equipment to ensure you can actually select it on the machine.
How Genius learns and adapts
Your training plan improves continuously based on your actual performance.
Progressive overload
Genius tracks whether you complete each set as prescribed:
Weight increases: If you complete all sets as prescribed or exceed the prescribed weights, Genius recalculates the working weight based on performance. The next workout will include higher weight prescriptions to reflect your improved strength potential.
Weight decreases: If you cannot complete at least one set as prescribed, the working weight reduces to align with your current strength level.
Consistency checks: If you complete at least one set but not all as prescribed, the exercise prescription remains unchanged for the next session.
Bodyweight exercises: Repetitions for bodyweight exercises remain consistent, even as weight prescriptions for other exercises are adjusted.
Continuous updates: Progressive overload is applied individually to each exercise, and adjustments take effect in the next workout where that exercise appears.
Strength test updates
When you complete a new strength test on an EGYM smart Strength machine, Genius considers the results, in combination with your previous training data, for the next week's plan. This also helps improve the accuracy for the initial predicted weights for all related exercises, including for exercises you haven't done yet.
Getting the most from Genius
Track your workouts
Log every set you complete in the Member App. The more data Genius has, the better it learns and adapts your plan.
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You can also track your EGYM Smart Strength workouts in real-time in the Member App.
Complete strength tests regularly
Monthly strength tests (or minimum every 3 months) help Genius keep your weight predictions accurate and relevant.
Adjust your fitness goal if needed
If your priorities change (such as from Weight Loss to Muscle Building), update your goal in the app. Genius will adjust your next plan accordingly.
Communicate with your trainer
If you work with a trainer, tell them about any exercises you dislike or equipment you prefer. They can customize your plan to match your preferences while still delivering results.
Frequently asked questions
Check out Genius FAQs and EGYM Genius: Operational Questions and Troubleshooting