AUSTIN, Texas – Whether your way to keep fit involves being outdoors and active, or at home in solitude, technology lets everyone have access to classes and workouts that allow to each maintain a certain level of fitness. In times of COVID-19, being part of an in-person class has been a challenge in many ways, due to required social distancing. Most workout facilities were closed for a time and only recently reopened.
One national company that was prepared to offer both at-home and in-person classes is ClassPass, using the model of a paid pass that allows access to numerous classes and facilities via the company’s app. The business was founded in 2013 by Payal Kakadia and Mary Biggins.
The company is partnered with more than four hundred studios in the Austin area that offer yoga, barre, cycling, Pilates, kickboxing and strength training. Livestream classes are also available, and the ClassPass can be also used for purchasing massages. In the Round Rock area, ToddPilates & Barre, 2000 Interstate 35 Frontage Road, accepts the ClassPass. In Cedar Park, LA Fitness, 825 W. Whitestone Blvd. is also a partner, as is PURE Yoga Texas at 1335 E. Whitestone Blvd., #185.
There are more than four thousand on-demand workouts, according to the company’s website, and new members are allowed a seven-day free trial that includes four classes. Costs for the ClassPass range from $9 per month to $159 per month, with different quantities of credits with which to book classes.
Different classes have different levels of credits assigned to them, for example “a megaformer class is different than livestream yoga,” according to the ClassPass website. The pass also allows users access to the company’s on-demand library of more than four thousand free workouts. Classes via livestream are offered by more than one hundred of the partnered fitness businesses in Austin and the surrounding area.