Ep. 18 - How Technology Can Make Lifting Easier

Iron Culture

The MASS Crew

Sports & Recreation, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2019

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

In 2019 technology is not only a part of life, but a part of fitness. Whether you wear a heart rate monitor, track your steps, scan the barcodes of foods to track their calories, or watch videos of your lifts to assess form, you’ve experienced this intersection first hand. We take these things for granted, but we miss the behind he scenes hard work, success, failures, struggles, ingenuity, creativity, setbacks and triumphs of the fitness-tech developers who make the augmented fitness world we live in possible. In this episode Iron Culture welcomes the founders of three lifter-specific apps, Obi Anachebe of FitGenie, Eric Wagner of Gravitus and Nidhi Kulkarni of Spitfire and Gravitus to give us a peak behind the curtain.

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0:00.0	Three.
0:01.0	Wow, you see that is a dramatic pause right there.
0:05.0	You know, I was just watching the other day, Eric Terminator 2, Judgment Day, Skynet.
0:10.0	Oh, the second best Terminator.
0:12.0	You think it's the second best?
0:14.0	Yes.
0:15.0	Okay.
0:16.0	And I'll tell you why.
0:17.0	Go.
0:18.0	Because when the original Terminator came out, they didn't advertise it so that you knew
0:22.3	that Arnold Schwarzenegger was the bad guy or that Reese Kyle.
0:26.0	You didn't know whether the Terminator or Reese Kyle was the bad guy.
0:28.8	Right.
0:29.0	You didn't even know that he was a cyborg.
0:30.6	It was kind of the way they released Matrix, where it was like, what is happening?
0:34.3	I don't know. And I think it was, both were revolutionary at their time as far as special effects.
0:40.3	I think just because of our generation, we're a little more focused on some of the
0:43.5	liquid metal stuff that we saw and all that.
0:46.7	And it really sets the tone.
0:49.2	And I think the original Terminator was, there was nothing really like it at that time while Terminator 2 was a great movie, but it was not alone in that space at that point in the early 90s.
1:02.4	This damn hipster.
1:03.6	So he's going for the OG source, which I can understand and respect.
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