The problem with all of these online workouts is that most of the value of working with a PT is having someone there in person, not just having a routine put to

The problem with all of these online workouts is that most of the value of working with a PT is having someone there in person, not just having a routine put together. A video can't check your form, or spot you on a heavy lift, or see that you're tiring more than usual after 75% of a run and encourage you or suggest a change of pace so you can still make it to the end, or partner you for better stretching. The people I feel most sorry for are the trainers and the trainees, who are both losing out for obvious reasons. Not far behind might be the makers of decent home gym equipment, who have just had the equivalent experience of hitting the front page of HN, PH and Reddit simultaneously with their new SaaS only to realise they only have one server running and it's already down. If they'd had enough volume in their warehouses and supply chains, they could have taken a huge part of the market away from the commercial gym industry overnight (literally; in the UK, basically all beginner to intermediate home gym gear sold out everywhere within hours of the government announcing that gyms would be included in the lockdown measures). I guess they didn't anticipate what was about to happen early enough to ramp up production and logistics accordingly, which must be horrible to realise if you could have had your business making more revenue in a week than it normally makes in a year.