AI and exercise. Is it leading you down the wrong path?

The idea that technology or AI can power your fitness programs with things like tonal or the mirror may sound cutting edge, enticing and just what you need. And 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 giving you the things to do for your body. Good for you. Stay tuned. I'm Akimbisso. I'm the owner of Soul Core Fitness. I've been in Spit for 30 years and I'm a summer therapist and summer trainer, which is therapy and fitness, kind of like a physical therapist a little bit more. And it's all under the osteopathic model. So osteopathy is the definition of holistic, meaning we got one body, it's interconnected, interdependent. There's a certain way that it should function and a certain place that things should be. So in osteopathy, in the 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 because 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 can interact with you right here on this video to where before I couldn't. I can interact with my clients through Zoom and through 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, software that can generally perform tasks that require human intelligence. So I've used it like I've used Chat GPT and I find it kind of impressive. And so if I have like a, a general post or something I want to say in an article, I'll use Chat vt. Then I always have to modify it for what I want to say. So it kind of gives me good outline and I like that it saves me a lot of time with, with the writing. But if I will make a post or make a video about specific stuff about health and fitness, I don't want to use ChatGPT because it's going to give me everything that we already know, Right. The stuff that we already know out there is just going to summarize it in a post in chat BT well, that's a problem because I think we can all agree on, especially here in America, our health and fitness is not the best. There's a lot of different reasons for that, but one of them 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 motivation and dedication. That's part of it. But you can be motivated, dedicated. Or if you're using a program that doesn't work for you, it's not going to work for you. But the fitness companies saw this as a easy out, an easy way to make money. They go, oh, look, I can really increase my bottom line because 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 spikes and years and equipment, all given this 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 them a lot. It also makes it easily digestible for the public. The public wants to feel safe. They don't like to. 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 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. I don't want to seem like I'm disparaging 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 all the information that people need. I've been in this field for 30 years, like I said, and for those of you who follow 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 because 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 A's, a bunch of others, but they're all generally the same information, right? And then you do CEC's continuing 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 ccs you take don't really interact with each other. I started noticing this over the years because they're probably doing like 15 years, right? Over the years, you see, you take a class on abs. Okay, great. I get some 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 because I like to see how things work together. These 15 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 them. All right, those are seven problem 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 going to 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 gbt using the basic information doesn't take that encounter in consideration. And it definitely doesn't 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 primal movements I just talked about are global movements. By 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 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 system. Right. So if you want to have a good global movement, then you have to be able to train these areas. So specifically, by specifically, I mean in isolation, but also at the same time holistically, because it needs to eventually work together. The example I give is for the pecs. So people want to do push ups or chest press toward their chest, but the chest is just one part of that movement. You can say you have off top of my head 12 different joints, let's say 15 different muscles, all involved with doing a chest press or a push up. So if I go do just that, I go straight to these primal movements and do a push up. My body's going to do it because the body does it, because you want to do it. It doesn't care how it gets it done. Meaning that in this example, let's say 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 push up, my body, my brain knows that, so it does a push up and cheats. Relative to not having pec muscles or flexibility in his pectoral area, you still do a push up, but it's not right. And no amount of coaching, no amount of form work is going to help you do that properly. Until you train that pec muscle through strengthening and stretching and all the different angles. It's not just one angle, just example. Pec goes from here and turns, it goes the arm. There's a lot of different fibers that are involved with the pec. It's not just one movement. You need to know that and train it. And for 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. Because holistically means with the fascial change and the information we're coming out with, fascia right now here in the United States is almost lower than base level and doesn't have any idea how to really work with it. Have you tried using AI for your fitness with the things like the mirror or tonal? I really love to hear your experience with them. Just put them in the comments below. So this is where it gets problematic for business to use AI Again, a big business goal is to increase your 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. It's very hard. Big businesses are slow moving ships that 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 in the cutting edge to make money, which is what they try to do. But it's actually, it's to your detriment, right? Since AI uses that general, general pool of information, it doesn't have access to that cutting information. 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 where we, 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, body's complex, a bunch of different things it can do different ways. It wants to be educated and treated, not just, not just general. So it makes it more difficult to accumulate the information for AI because 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 equals C, A plus B equals C is good for business. It's better for your body because A plus B equals C. Could be for me, it could be A plus B equals D for you, right? You need to find your equation. Now this doesn't mean you shouldn't use technology. We got to keep up the time. You see, 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. 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're 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 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. I view health and fitness as a relationship with my body. Yes, I want to use my body to do different things for me. I love skiing, to ski really well, to feel strong, to do these activities, to put 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's not just me Kimba using my body to do something, it's me Kimba using it and also going hey body, what do you need? Oh look, I feel a little tight in my hip. Maybe I need to do these four or five different stretches. Four this hip to make sure it stays balanced. Because the more I can use a relationship, a way to empower myself and to get to my body, get to know my body better. Excuse me, better my quality of life. Now if you want to find out more about this holistic way of taking care of yourself, then please don't forget to subscribe. Put a thumbs up for the video if you liked it and share with your friends. And then in the description below you have three options. 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