Using AI for fitness may seem like a safe win. Big businesses are putting this technology in their equipment, Peloton and Tonal, in the hopes of having a personal trainer at home. But is the program it’s giving you good for you? Will it get you results, waste your time, or hurt you?

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The idea that technology or AI can, uh, power your fitness programs through things like tonal or the mirror may sound cutting edge, enticing and just what you need. And the, the technology is definitely cutting edge. We’ve never seen anything like it. And what’s to come may be amazing. What are the programs it’s given you, the things to do for your body? Good for you. Stay tuned. Hi, I’m Ekemba Sooh. I’m the owner of SolCore Fitness. I’ve been in this field for 30 years and I’m a Soma therapist and Soma Trainer, which is a therapy and fitness, kind of like a physical therapist a little bit more. And it’s all un the osteopathic model. So osteopathy is a definition of holistic, meaning we got one body, it’s interconnected, interdependent, and there’s a certain way that it should function and a certain place that things should be.

So in osteopathy and holistic area, we use a bunch of different techniques to achieve that, not just a handful of techniques to get there. That’s kind of what AI is leading to, is it’s using a standard amount of information to get us to a certain level. That’s a problem ’cause there’s a lot more information out there. I love technology, right? I love the fact that we don’t have to file tons of paper now, right? We can do it digitally. I love the fact that I could interact with you right here on this video to where before I couldn’t, I could interact with my clients through Zoom and through fa uh, FaceTime to help them with their programs that I can have spreadsheets that help me do a lot of equations and sorting and things. I love that stuff, but I want to make sure that the human element stays in it.

That we don’t turn into a bunch of robots. So AI artificial intelligence is a semi-autonomous as of right now. <laugh> software that can generally perform tasks that require human intelligence. So I’ve used it like I’ve used chat PPT and I find it kind of impressive. And so if I have like a, a general post or something I wanna say in an article, I’ll use chat gpt, then I always have to modify it for what I wanna say. So it kind of gives me a good outline and I like that it saves me a lot of time with, uh, with the writing. And if I’ll make a post or make a video about specific stuff about health and fitness, I don’t wanna use chat gpt because it’s going to give me everything that we already know, right? There’s stuff that we already know out there. It’s going to summarize it in a post and chat. Bt well that’s a problem because I think we can all agree on, especially in America, our health and fitness is not the best. There’s a lot of different reasons for that. But one of ’em is that we’ve been kind of using the same information, same lessons for a long time, right? And so people aren’t getting fit. It’s not just a matter of uh, motivation and dedication. That’s part

Of it. But you can be motivated, de dedicated. But if you’re using a program that doesn’t work for you, it’s not gonna work for you. But the fitness companies saw this as a easy out and easy way to make money. They go, oh look, I can really increase my bottom line ’cause they want their bottom line to be big and black. I can increase my bottom line by using this AI for personal training. I can put it on treadmills and whatever. And bikes and mirrors and equipment all given the same information to tell people what to do so they can cut out the cost. The personal trainer because the AI is developing a program for that person and it helps ’em a lot. It also makes it easily digestible for the public. The public wants to feel safe. They don’t like to <laugh>, they don’t like to feel challenged, which unfortunately is what you need if you want to achieve a different result.

So they see something that promotes, uh, their fitness and they recognize the exercises and things they do from stuff they’ve done before. They think, oh good, it’s exactly what I need. Not thinking for two seconds. The reason why you want to buy this thing is the classes or trainers you used before that did the same thing, didn’t get to where you wanted, right? So it’s not a different application of the same program, it’s the program that’s the problem. And I wanna seem like disparaging, uh, the general information that’s out there, all the information is really good. All this research and development of exercise science over the years is fantastic. All I’m saying is that’s not wholly information that people need. I’ve been in this field for 30 years, like I said, and for those of you who followed me, you might know that about 18 years ago I made the switch to this holistic therapy and exercise program that I do now, right?

I started using osteopathy for exercise and for treatment. ’cause I find it more effective. I did so because I got hurt and couldn’t get better through the traditional system, which uses the traditional information I’m talking about. But even before that, I was starting to get a little disenchanted with my education. So when you first become a personal trainer, which is how I started, you go through a course NASM as a bunch of others, but they’re, they’re all generally the same information, right? And then you do CCCs continue education credits to maintain your certification along with the CPR certification. It sounds, it sounds good on the outside, right? But the, you get the general information which is necessary. You need that. But then the CECs you take don’t really interact with each other. And I started noticing this over the years ’cause uh, at that point I’ve been doing like 15 years, right? Over the years. You see you take a class on abs, okay great, I get tell information abs then take a class on stretching. Okay, that’s great. But those two classes don’t speak to each

Other. They don’t interact with each other. They don’t come from the same base of information. It’s for me, frustrating ’cause I like to see how things work together. These fitness companies use the idea of the seven primal movements or seven basic movements. It’s called a bunch of different things, but it’s the same idea. We all need to squat, bend, push, pull, twist, lunge and gate. I think I got ’em. All right. Those are seven primal movements. These are good because you want the stuff you do in your workouts to equal what you do in your life. And everybody, everybody will use these movements and a combination of them and whatever sports and activities that they like in their life, everybody’s gonna use them. So you need to be able to do these. But there’s a bunch of other things before that that you need to do to be able to do those movements and then chat GPT using the basic information doesn’t take that in encounter in consideration.

And it definitely doesn’t take take consideration. You when you first sign up, they tell you to do a squat, but is doing a squat the best thing for you right now. So those seven basic problem movements I just talked about are global movements, right? Global means you have to use your whole body to perform one of those movements. The whole body works together to do a squat. The whole body works together to do a bend or a deadlift. The whole body needs to do its job to perform these. But within that whole body you have a bunch of little different areas that need to work together. Which means if one of those little areas is not doing their job or is too tight, it’s going to compromise that whole global movement and cause compensation or cheating on the rest of the the system, right? So if you want to have a good global movement, then you have to be able to train these areas specifically.

And by specifically I mean in isolation, but also at the same time holistically. ’cause it needs to eventually work together. The example I give is for the pecs. So people want to do pushups or chest press to work their chest, but the chest is just one part of that movement. You can say you have, it is off the top of my head, 12 different joints, let’s say 15 different muscles, all of all, all uh, involved with doing a chest press or a pushup. So if I go do just that, I go straight to those, these primal movements, you’re gonna do a pushup, my body’s gonna do it. ’cause the body does it because you want to do it. It doesn’t care how it gets it done. Meaning that in this example as I have almost no muscle fibers in my chest and it’s really tight, which means I don’t have a lot of workers and I don’t have a lot of mobility. So when I go do a pushup, my body, my brain knows that. So it does a pushup and cheats relative to not having pec muscles or flexibility in its pictorial area. We’ll

Still do a pushup but it’s not right. And no amount of coaching, no amount of form work is gonna help you do that properly until you train that pec muscle through strengthening and stretching and all the different angles is not just one angle and just example. Peck goes from here and turns it goes to the arm. There’s a lot of different fibers that are involved with the peck. It’s not just one movement. You need to know that and train it. And from what I’ve seen generally online, which is what AI is taking it from, they’re not doing that. They’re not doing that type of movement at all. And they’re definitely not thinking about training holistically. ’cause holistically it means with the fascial chain and the information we’re coming out with fascia right now here in the United States is almost lower than base level. It doesn’t have any idea how to really work with it.

Have you tried using ai, uh, for your fitness with the things at the mirror or tonal? I’d really love to hear your experience with them. Just put ’em in the comments below. So this is where it gets problematic for businesses to use ai. Again, a big business goal is to increase their bottom line. Again, like I said, to have that number on the bottom, big and black. And so you want to incorporate new things into a big business is very hard. Big businesses are like slow moving ships. They take a while to adapt and go. That means in general, they can’t really be on the cutting edge in terms of this for, for health and fitness. They can be on the cutting edge to make money, which is what they try to do. But it’s act it to, it’s to your detriment, right? Since AI uses that general, general, uh, pool of information, it doesn’t have access to that cutting edge information.

And that’s one of the aspects you need is you need cutting information and you also need it to be duplicatable and teachable. So I’ll take what we, what we do. For example, what we do is, like I said, holistic and based on osteopathy, which by definition means it’s based in complexity. It’s complex, but it’s complex. A bunch of different things. He can do different ways. He wants to be educated and treated, not just, not just general. So it makes it more difficult to, uh, accumulate the information for ai ’cause there’s so many variants of how to adapt it that makes it more difficult to be teachable to these big industries, right? To teach them A plus B equal c, A plus B equal C is good for business, it’s bad for your body ’cause A plus B equal equal C could be for me it could be A plus B equals D for you, right? And you find your, your your equation. Now this doesn’t mean you shouldn’t use technology, right? We gotta keep up the times. You don’t have to always go in one-on-one or in class to get results from your training program. As I said before, I use

This holistic exercise type program, right? And I use technology to help get my information and my program across. But I don’t allow technology to dictate how I would do my program, that’s a big difference, right? That’s a big difference between telling AI to do something for me and me telling technology to do what I want to do. I want to be the driver because I know more than AI about what people need. Now, if you are okay with just general ways of working out that you’ve seen before and you’re disciplined enough, go for it. Use ai. It’s a, uh, more affordable, more convenient way of getting your workouts in. If you don’t care about deep diving into your body and getting really intricate with it. It’s all you. You can see by the not so subtle words I just used that I don’t believe in that at all.

Alright? If you’ve, I view, I view health and fitness as a relationship with my body. Yes, I want to use my body to do different things to, for me, I love skiing, to ski really well, to feel strong to do these activities, to play with my kids. I want to use it to maybe gain some muscle or increase my mobility, but I also want to use health and fitness as a way to take care of my body. So it’s a relationship. It just, it is not just me Ekemba using my body to do something. It’s me, Ekemba using it and also going, Hey buddy, what do you need? Oh, look, I feel a little tight and my hip. Maybe I need to do these four or five different stretches for this hip to make sure it’s, it stays balanced. Because the more I can use a relationship and a way to empower myself and to get to my body, get get to know my body better, excuse me, better my quality of life.

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