Lessons and reels for our gym, edited with Claude

The problem

Our own gym teaches two courses online. Both were long pages of text.

The ideas in them move. Energy changes as an effort gets longer. Signals travel through a cell. Text does not show that well.

What we built

We turned both courses into narrated, animated lessons. A picture moves while a voice explains one idea at a time, like a coach on the floor.

The fitness lesson has eight chapters. The second course, on metabolic health, has eight modules. Together they hold 144 narrated clips, and both went live in eight days.

• Tied to the sourceEvery caption and every spoken line points back to the source text.
• One voice, many takesA synthetic voice reads each paragraph. A rewrite is a re-run, not a studio booking.
• Checks that can failWe check sound, pace, blank frames and phone views before anything goes live.

How it works

1. We plan each idea as a short scene.
2. Claude helps build the scenes and the script from the source text.
3. The voice reads the script, and the picture follows the words.
4. We run the checks and view the lesson on real phones.
5. We review a private preview as the gym, then make it live.

Short reels from the same method

The gym's short reels now use the same idea. In one test, Claude went through about six hours of 4K footage and cut a 30-second reel, with music and transitions, and then checked its own cuts.

The gym's media lead picks the clips and checks every reel before it posts. The scripts and steps are saved, so the gym's daily reels come from one kit.

What changed

Any rewrite is cheap, so we keep reviewing until the lesson is right.

The same method fits any business that explains the same things again and again.