How AI Is Changing Nutrition Coaching with Rami Alhamad with Doug Larson, Travis Mash & Dr. Mike Lane #844

Barbell Shrugged

Doug Larson

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Doug Larson and Dr. Mike Lane sit down with Rami Alhamad, founder of Alma and former creator of Push, to explore how AI is changing nutrition coaching and performance tracking. Rami shares his background in engineering, strength training, and startup building, including the journey of creating Push, the velocity-based training platform later acquired by Whoop. The conversation covers how that experience in sensors, data, and coaching systems led him toward a bigger problem: making personalized nutrition guidance dramatically easier and more useful for real people. They also dig into what makes Alma different from traditional food trackers, including logging meals by voice, text, and photos, along with coaching features that help users spot patterns and make better decisions without getting buried in manual data entry.

The second half of the conversation expands into the bigger picture of AI in coaching, health, and business. Doug, Mike, and Rami talk through how tools like wearable integration, supplement tracking, micronutrient guidance, weekly coaching summaries, and coach dashboards can help people stay more consistent while giving coaches better visibility with less friction. They also discuss the future of AI in human performance, why great coaches are more likely to be amplified than replaced, and how the real opportunity is using these tools to automate low-value tasks while preserving the high-trust human relationship that makes coaching effective. For coaches, athletes, and performance-minded listeners, this episode offers a practical look at how AI can improve nutrition and decision-making without losing the personal element that matters most.

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Coach Travis Mash on Instagram

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0:00.0	Shrug family. Doug Larson here. And this week on Barb Bell Strug, we sit down with Rami Al-Hamad.
0:04.9	He's the founder of Alma, which is a best-in-class AI nutrition coaching app. He also previously
0:09.8	founded Push, which is a very cool velocity-based training app that he sold to Whoop in 2021.
0:14.9	And in this episode, we talk about how AI is changing nutrition coaching, specifically why people
0:19.5	fail with food tracking because the process
0:21.8	has historically been very tedious and challenging to sustain over the long term, which
0:26.6	leads into an interesting conversation regarding how tools like voice and or photologing are the two
0:32.1	most convenient tracking methods available in the world today, and how giving AI secure access to
0:37.4	your nutrition data
0:38.3	can give you very inexpensive and yet hyper-personalized feedback to make eating healthier
0:43.5	a whole lot easier.
0:45.3	So if you care about performance, nutrition, coaching, and you have a strong curiosity about
0:49.5	the world of AI and how it's going to change the world for us all, this episode is for
0:53.0	you.
0:53.6	Enjoy the show.
1:28.3	Welcome to Barbell Strugg. I'm Doug Larson here with Dr. Mike Lane and Rami Al-Hamad, CEO of Alma or Alma Nutrition. What's the right way to say? Is Alma Nutrition? Alma. Alma all the way. Alma, right on, my friend. Yo, dig into your background. Tell us how you got into the world of technology, business, nutrition, all the things. And then I've been using the Alma app lately. Very impressive. I'd love to hear more about it, but start with your background and we'll take it from there. Yeah, that sounds great, man. I'm happy to. So yeah, I grew up, I grew up in Canada in a little town called Waterloo. Went to school there, studied engineering. So I was one of those guys that my parents would give me a toy and my first instinct was to take the toy apart and see how it works on the inside.
1:38.3	And so naturally I fell into engineering. I immediately wanted to learn how things work. I studied
1:44.8	mechatronics engineering, so I had to do with computers and hardware and sensors. And then
1:50.3	after graduating, I worked in a couple of technical roles as software engineer and hardware engineer,
1:55.9	but very quickly afterwards, I caught the startup bug. So a couple of years out of school, I decided
2:00.3	I want to jump in and I want to learn
2:01.6	how to build a business from scratch.
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