youtube Archives - Workout Trainer app

While millions of people around the globe are still doing their best to stay active from their own living room, backyard, or local park; YouTube fitness stars have really risen to the occasion and are sharing awesome new training content every day.

Over the past year, we’ve carefully curated 1000+ amazing workouts from your favorite YouTube fitness celebrities and now you can easily discover, organize, and add some of your own to the mix in Workout Trainer.

We’ve already seen some great YouTube workouts added by our community members so far. You can easily find them in-app under the YouTube workouts category. Explore the entire range of integrated YouTube workouts by using our advanced search features to filter and find exactly what you’re looking for.

You don’t have to be a PRO+ member to play all of these amazing YouTube workouts in Workout Trainer! However, if you want to create more than 3 workouts on our platform (including adding YouTube workouts), you’ll need to be a PRO+ member. Add your own YouTube workouts by tapping on the ‘+’ icon and then selecting ‘YouTube Video’ from the menu options. Copy and paste the link to your chosen YouTube video workout, et voilà, you’re ready to go!

As a PRO+ member, you can also organize your own YouTube workouts, as well as those added by fellow Skimblers. From the Workout Info page, tap the ‘…’ icon in the top right corner of the screen. From here, you can select several menu options to edit the Target Type (e.g. core, full body, shoulders, etc.), set the Required Equipment needed for a workout (e.g. exercise mat, jump rope, dumbbells, etc.), and put them into any relevant Categories to help others discover them more easily (e.g. cardio, weight loss, yoga, etc.).

Download the latest Workout Trainer app update on your Android & iOS devices to try out these power features for YouTube workouts today. Look out for our top picks as we feature new YouTube fitness stars every week in our app.

Are you headed to Google I/O 2012 this week? If you are, we want YOU to stop by and check out some of the awesome stuff we’ve been working on to keep people active!

Skimble-workout-trainer-googleio-demo-in-tablet

We’re excited to announce that we’ve been part of the closed YouTube Android Player beta program and have integrated their API into our Google I/O demo app. This functionality isn’t in our live Workout Trainer app just yet, but be assured that we’ll let you know when YouTube makes the API public so we can share this with you all!

For all Google I/O attendees, visit Team Skimble at our demo today from 11:30 am to 6:30 pm at the YouTube sandbox on the main level of the Moscone Center. Then tomorrow (June 28), attend the YouTube session as Skimble’s co-founder Maria Ly walks you through the demo app from 1:30 to 2:30 pm in Room 9. If you’re not able to make it to Google I/O, have no fear, there’s a livestream available so you won’t miss a thing!

Update: here’s the session video where Skimble’s co-founders Maria and Gabe present at the 11:30 minute mark:

For those that aren’t familiar with Google I/O:

Google I/O is focused on the tech world’s latest web, mobile and social breakthroughs and bringing together thousands of developers who are turning them into tomorrow’s startups. Googe I/O returns to San Francisco’s Moscone Center from June 27-29, 2012.

The Developer Sandbox, first introduced at I/O 2009, is a demo area where a wide range of developers who have built applications based on technologies and products are featured at I/O. Representing large and small companies, individual developers, and a diverse collection of apps, these developers will be participating in the Sandbox to demo their applications, answer questions, and exchange ideas.