Equipment use tracking and availability prediction

A system comprising:

• sensing equipment that identifies users and times of use for equipment at one or more locations;
• a monitor module that electronically monitors use of the equipment by a plurality of users, by obtaining information about equipment use from the sensing equipment;
• a profile module that stores a plurality of user profiles based on the information about equipment use, wherein the user profiles comprise information about the users indicating equipment used and time of use;
• and
• a prediction module that sends a recommendation indicating predicted equipment availability to a user based on current information about equipment use and on the user profiles,
• wherein the equipment is gym equipment, a workout plan comprises multiple exercises, and the recommendation indicates predicted equipment availability for at least one exercise selected from the workout plan, and
• wherein at least a portion of said modules comprise one or more of hardware circuits, programmable hardware devices and executable code, the executable code stored on one or more computer readable storage media.

A computer-implemented method for equipment use tracking and availability prediction comprising:

• electronically monitoring use of equipment by a plurality of users at one or more locations, by obtaining information about equipment use from sensing equipment that identifies users and times of use for the equipment;
• storing a plurality of user profiles based on the information about equipment use, wherein the user profiles comprise information about the users indicating equipment used and time of use;
• and
• sending a recommendation indicating predicted equipment availability to a user based on current information about equipment use and on the user profiles, wherein the equipment is gym equipment, a workout plan comprises multiple exercises, and the recommendation indicates predicted equipment availability for at least one exercise selected from the workout plan.