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We are happy to announce the beta release of our seminar products feature. The main idea is to allow gyms to have seminars that are either public or available only for gym members. The seminar is paid in advance and can have a participant limit.

This is aimed mainly at gym owners but it will also benefit the WODconnect athletes since they will be able to pay and reserve their spot to a seminar directly through our service’s payment system.

With this feature you can handle seminars, On Ramps and special courses.

The beta version is only available for selected gyms.

Before you can start using this feature you’ll have to contact antti@wodconnect.com and request to have seminar products enabled for your gym. As a gym owner you’ll find a new tab (“Seminars”) on the Products page. Create your first seminar product, publish it, share the seminar URL and wait for users to sign up.

We’d like to share our progress with the class booking feature on WODconnect, a feature that many gyms have been asking for.

With the new booking feature gyms can:

• Create a bookable timetable for gym members
• Create repeating and one-off class times
• Assign and handle coach responsibility for classes
• Set a participant limit for each class

The booking feature will be released during the next month.

What features would you want a booking system to have, either as a gym or as an athlete? Are we missing some critical features?

SSCT is organizing a No Holding Back training program in collaboration with the world famous Flow Mo Crew and Saiffa Dance School. What’s really cool about this initiative is that they are using WODconnect for the programming.

The training program is totally free and will last 12 weeks up until the No Holding Back World Finals.

We are so excited to see how this goes! Read more about SSCT and NHB training program here.

The workout is 12 min AMRAP of:

• 150 wall balls
• 90 double-unders
• 30 muscle-ups

Find the workout on WODconnect

Movement standards:

Strategy and prep by Diane Fu, Brian MacKenzie, Carl Paoli and Kelly Starrett:

Jami Tikkanen’s strategy tips:

Jami’s prep tips:

We just added a feature for gym owners to send newsletters to their athletes.

You can send a newsletter to all athletes, target it to paying customers, or just email athletes who don’t yet have a subsription at your gym.

You’ll find newsletters under the Members page in your gym admin.

Sending a newsletter costs 5 euros regardless of the amount of recipients.

The workout is 10 minute AMRAP of:

• 5 Shoulder to overhead, 115 / 75 lbs
• 10 Deadlift, 115 / 75 lbs
• 15 Box jump, 24 / 20 inch

Find the workout on WODconnect

Prep and Strategy by Diane Fu, Carl Paoli, Brian MacKenzie and Kelly Starret:

Pat Barber’s tips and workout:

Carl Paoli’s effiency and movement tips:

Open is finally here! Here’s compiled guide to smash 13.1!

Movement standards:

Carl’s tips:

Jami’s strategy tips:

Jami’s tips in more detail:

Mindset tips from Focus WOD:

San Francisco CrossFit’s tips:

Today we released WODconnect Pro accounts. For 50€ per year you are supporting the development of WODconnect and for starters will enable the feature of getting daily WODs from your gym to your email.

We have plans to make Pro accounts the best option for athletes who are serious about training. Later on you’ll receive access to features such as goals and reports. You’ll also get to test new features before anyone else.

Get your Pro account by going to your settings and clicking Become a Pro

Tell us in the comments what features you’d like to see in WODconnect Pro accounts.

Today we released simple Facebook sharing of results. Once you’ve posted your result on WODconnect, just click or tap “Share”.

Bills are sent on last day of the month in WODconnect. On this day all open bills will be sent (one time purchases and subscriptions starting on start of the month). When your gym has joined WODconnect and will do the first billing cycle, you need to go though following steps.

Make sure you have billing enabled in your gym admin interface (you should be able to see products and checkout views).

Well before the first billing cycle (3-4 weeks) publish an article explaining what will happen:

• bills will arrive from WODconnect from now on
• explain payment options in WODconnect
• ask athletes to join your gym on WODconnect and add a widget to your blog/site (widgets can be found under gym settings)
• tell that athletes who do not join WODconnect on time, will be invited there
• ask athletes to contact you, if they have any questions

Create membership products to WODconnect.

Few weeks (1-2) before first billing cycle, start going through the clients and make sure everyone is on WODconnect and that their subscriptions are set properly.