How Chocolate Box Strengthened Their Community and Saved Time

This Australia-based gym signed up with SugarWOD and replicated the full Chocolate Box experience within the SugarWOD app in 48 hours.

How Chocolate Box Strengthened Their Community and Saved Time

This Australia-based gym signed up with SugarWOD and replicated the full Chocolate Box experience within the SugarWOD app in 48 hours.

About Chocolate Box

Chocolate Box started in 2010 with workouts in the park. They moved into a gym in 2014, and over the years they’ve grown to become one of the biggest functional fitness facilities in Sydney.

Manager and trainer Maxi Jolley said they have programs for everyone, including strength and conditioning, group classes, running and road cycling, yoga, Pilates, barre, and even childcare. At Chocolate Box, members are encouraged to train for new challenges, like triathlons or the Mount Everest Basecamp Marathon.

Community Outside the Gym

When Chocolate Box closed because of COVID-19, they needed a way for their members to keep training while at home. Maxi had experienced SugarWOD with another training program, so he knew what the platform could do. Within 48 hours Chocolate Box was able transition their whole gym from a physical facility to an online platform.

“We’ve been lucky enough we’ve almost been able to replicate the Chocolate Box experience of having different programs, the same different programs we have in the gym, and we’ve been able to move them online and keep our community feel,” Maxi said. 

Once the gym reopened, Maxi found SugarWOD not only strengthened his community, it saved him and his trainers time and made their jobs easier.

Community Outside the Gym

When Chocolate Box closed because of COVID-19, they needed a way for their members to keep training while at home. Maxi had experienced SugarWOD with another training program, so he knew what the platform could do. Within 48 hours Chocolate Box was able transition their whole gym from a physical facility to an online platform.

“We’ve been lucky enough we’ve almost been able to replicate the Chocolate Box experience of having different programs, the same different programs we have in the gym, and we’ve been able to move them online and keep our community feel,” Maxi said. 

Once the gym reopened, Maxi found SugarWOD not only strengthened his community, it saved him and his trainers time and made their jobs easier.

In terms of programming, SugarWOD has been all we’ve needed, which really makes life a lot easier.

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Transforming Chocolate Box With SugarWOD

Chocolate Box is known for its variety of programs. Now that they use SugarWOD, it’s easy for the team to automatically publish the workouts for all the programs to their website, BoxTV, and the mobile app.

SugarWOD saves time in class, too.

Instead of trainers always having to show the movements in class, Maxi said SugarWOD allows them to post demonstration videos ahead of time for people to watch before they come to the gym.

“They can really focus on our community feel and making people better, as opposed to demonstrating exercises,” Maxi said.

SugarWOD helps build Chocolate Box’s community and saves them time with:

Participation Metrics

See which athletes are the social “hub” of your gym and which may be feeling left out.

Programming Management

The drag and drop programming calendar and library of thousands of workouts makes programming simple.

Box Branding

With customizable logo, image, and announcement features, you can extend your gym’s brand to your athlete’s mobile device.

Athlete Prep Tools

Your athletes will come to class more prepared after SugarWOD provides them with movement preparation videos and details on their workout history.

Community Building

Athletes and coaches can connect and encourage each other through fist bumps and comments.