In March of 2020, fitness facilities across Alberta were temporarily shut down, including all fitness centres within commercial towers. At HSBC Place in Edmonton, LIV North Account Manager Jaclyn Neumann, quickly mobilized and within a few days of closure began offering a wide variety of live streamed and on-demand fitness classes, along with wellness challenges all designed to help support the tenants’ well-being during these stressful times. The fitness centre at HSBC Place is one many facilities managed by LIV North.
During the past 6 months, Jaclyn and the HSBC fitness centre members engaged in numerous activities together, creating an HSBC “virtual fitness community” utilizing LIV North’s digital platform, LIVx. Members appreciated the ease of use of our LIVx app to access classes and other wellness activities.
LIV North is proud to be partnered with Epic Investment Services in delivering innovative fitness & wellness programs to tenants and to cultivating healthy communities.
As the landscape changes, we change with it making it easier for our customers and their members to operate. In 2020 the reopening of your buildings recreation facility is all about limiting access, maintaining physical distancing protocols and proper cleaning and sanitising.
As the industry leader in facility management, LIV North has adapted our proprietary LIV X app and created the LIV X scheduler. This scheduling app provides an easy online tool that can be accessed by all your residents through a free download onto any mobile device.
LIV Xperience is our unmatched Condo Management tool providing fully digital online programming. Within the LIV X app that comes with our management program is an online scheduler that we use throughout our managed facilities across Canada for amenities scheduling including squash courts, meeting rooms, classes, socials, leagues, and more.
To help prevent overcrowding, we have created a modified version of our app that can be used in condominiums or apartments this summer. (see attached flyer)
LIV-X Scheduler can provide your condominium with a tool for all residents to remotely book pool times, gym times, BBQ times, Theatre rooms, and any other amenity in your building. If your pools (outdoor and indoor) or fitness rooms are being serviced by LIV North, this modified scheduling service will be provided at no cost until September to get everyone through the summer. If you are interested in our full line of service and facility management programs please contact: sales@livnorth.com
LIV X app allows spaces to be booked online, without human contact. If the time slot is not available the system immediately puts the user onto a waiting list and notifies them if there is a cancellation.
It’s simple and easy to use for members and operators alike:
STEP 1: Free download of LIV X app (instructions below)
STEP 2: Register your name to your building using building code
STEP 3: Review the schedule operating hours
STEP 4: Book a time slot and enjoy your swim or workout.
To make your opening easier, LIV North can provide:
Pre-opening pool & spa inspections
Fitness Centre Equipment inspection and maintenance
COVID safety signage programs,
Fitness room equipment review, and new social distancing layouts.
Full line of soft goods to replace old and worn equipment
Full line of sanitizing products.
LIV North has been actively engaged with a variety of organizing bodies working on viable solutions and procedures for aquatic and fitness facilities. The LIVNORTH.com home page is constantly being updated with new information covering the aquatics, fitness, and facility fields for reopening and cleaning.
As Condominiums and Apartments look to re-opening their recreation facilities, LIV North is at the forefront of facility readiness with the answers to your questions.
LIV North is Canada’s largest corporate facility management company and the largest commercial fitness dealer/ distributor.
Packages are available for all indoor recreation amenities as a package or included in a maintenance or staffing program. Call us now, if you need to have your facility opened with confidence!!
Scheduling is an effective way to assist in the safe re-opening of multi unit residential facilities.
LIV X Scheduler Provides:
Pre-set opening and closing times
Pre-set number of users allowed at any given time slot
Automatic waiting list created for a time slot if it is full
Pre set advance booking.
Ability to set maximum number of bookings by an individual
Individual building login registration
Default setting for outdoor pools is 10 users at a time.
Powerful Features:
In 2020 the reopening your buildings recreation facility is all about limiting access, maintaining physical distancing protocols and proper cleaning/ sanitising.
As the industry leader in facility management, LIV North has adapted our proprietary LIV X app and created the LIV X Scheduler. This scheduling app provides and easy online tool that can be accessed by all your residents through a free download onto a mobile device.
LIV X Scheduler will be used to assist our outdoor pool accounts schedule the maximum number of bathers allowed in the pool areas and/or fitness rooms.
This effective scheduling tool prevents unwelcome overcrowding of key amenities in your building.
Why Choose Us?
LIV X Scheduler will be available as a complimentary service for all LIV North Outdoor Maintenance or Lifeguarded Pool contracts from July through to the September Long weekend.
Packages are available for all indoor recreation amenities as a package or included in a maintenance or staffing program.
LIV X is a complete facility management and programming tool that is part of LIV Xperience.
LIV North is proud of how our facility managers have responded since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Within a few days of all Client’s being required to shutdown fitness centres across the Country, LIV North staff began delivering their fitness & wellness programming remotely to our client’s members. In a time when everyone’s lives are disrupted, providing as much normality in our scheduling with the same friendly face and being able to bring a sense of community in a stressful time.
One corporate account, Rogers Communications, has always been deeply committed to keeping their employees as engaged and healthy as possible and during this time is no different. Since the shutdown of their corporate fitness centres, LIV North immediately started engaging remotely with members, signing up over 200 people to a challenge on the first day. Today nearly 2,000 employees are engaged with online and virtual fitness classes. These classes are not only being provided to members belonging to any of their corporate fitness facilities within the GTA and Montreal, but all employees. According to Lisa Kendall, VP, Amenities, LIV North “ the feedback from Rogers employees is inspiring and about ⅓ of the people enrolled are not regular members of a club.”
The Rogers Communications program is one of about 40 similar programs that are being performed daily in the homes of our employees. Once facility closures were announced, the LIV North team was communicating over the weekend with all facilities across Canada and by the following Monday had a plan put together to keep members connected.
The LIV North Amenities staff started to share ideas from the beginning of this pandemic and are now communicating online twice a week as a team of instructors to share ideas and successes. “LIV North has an amazing pool of talented instructors operating in a wide range of facilities across Canada, We are catering to a variety of needs and dealing with various types of communities daily with an amazing pool of instructors from across Canada.” Kendall states.
Not only has LIV North redeployed our programming but we have re-designed many programs so they can be offered as “family friendly”. For example, we have a family friendly Amazing Race challenge with Honda employees, afternoon stretch breaks are being enjoyed by all family members and our core conditioning programs are now being offered to varsity and high school athletes who are staying at home. Classes range from Stretch and tone, AtHome Boxercise and many more that are posted on our clients members schedule.
Other facilities are also engaged in providing programs for social connection across multiple social platforms. For example, Miles Nadel launched an online hockey league for members with an amazing response. All LIV North facilities are getting together and running a Goofy Plank Challenge #goofyplankchallenge This is run across Instagram with a target of 5000 people submitting entries showing themselves planking in a fun and creative way. Check out our first goofyplank doing a breakfast plank!
Stay tuned for more details on our #goofyplankchallenge.
Stay abreast of our many new opportunities through our instagram or blog on the LIV North website. www.livnorth.com
LIV North is focused on connecting the health and wellness community during this time with as much at home fitness, mental health and wellness content as we can.
LIV X, our fitness app used throughout our managed facilities, is loaded with videos to keep members active outside of their facility. LIVx provides a full range of health and wellness services, virtual classes, scheduling and a direct link to communicate 24/7.
We are working with our phenomenal partners, such as Move123, to offer support and assistance to keep you moving and engaged. Through this partnership we are offering our clients, customers and preferred partners access to a full range of videos designed specifically for people working remotely or at home.
This collection of videos will be updated weekly so ideas and content are fresh to keep you engaged and excited. Whoever is not using our LIV X Apps can access this site for content.
Move 123 is centred around fitness and wellness of all types, Move 123 Silver is focused on active aging with modified moves for individuals and Mind 123 focuses on advice and tips for your mental health with interviews with industry experts.
In addition to our partners, we will continue to run our small group training, Synergy, to help keep you connected with your Synergy friends and family. If any of our members need products during this time to assist with their at home fitness, please contact our LIV North team.
Available for all LIV North clients and partners. Contact us for details. info@livnorth.com
