Welcome to the Get Fit Guys quick and dirty tips to get moving and shape up.

My name is Brock Armstrong and I'm the Get Fit Guy.

You know what? It is easy to get lost in all the hype around new workout devices or new workout protocols

that promise maximal results in minimal time.

So, to help set the record straight, the marketing director for a device called Carol,

Rahul Bernath, joined me to have a friendly debate. Before joining Carol, Rahul graduated from

the University College of London with a first-class degree

and worked with some of the UK's most valuable consumer brands in marketing and sales.

The name of this rather innocuous-looking stationary bike stands for

cardiovascular optimization logic. That's where they get the Carol from. Now Carol is an AI-powered

interactive exercise bike with self-learning algorithms that took more than four years to actually

develop. And the big selling point of Carol is that it automates each of your high intensity interval training workouts and guides you through the perfect execution of each workout, using biofeedback, a touch screen, and audio prompts.

Now, I had the opportunity to try out a Carol bike in person, and although I enjoyed the good workout that it gave me

and I was intrigued by the device, I actually walked away with some mixed feelings.

Now those mixed feelings mostly focused around the claims that so many devices like these

seem to elicit.

Claims such as Carol is clinically proven to give you the same cardio

benefits of a 45-minute jog in under nine minutes, with only 40 seconds of hard work. So,

instead of just griping about my feelings around this in private, I decided to have Rahul

on the podcast to discuss it openly for everyone to hear.

So civilized, right?

All right.

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