Welcome back to Get Fit Guy. Kevin Don here with some thoughts around the future of the coaching industry and AI apps designing your workout.

This past couple of months, there's been a lot of chatter around chat GPT4.

Italy has banned it over privacy concerns, and academic institutions are musing over whether or not

students will use AI to write assignments, and if that would be plagiarism.

Writers and artists are nervous that AI will take over their jobs.

On my side, I wonder if someone would choose an AI fitness coach over me. I think in many ways, the fitness industry already has a large

amount of impersonal product offerings, so I'm not even sure there will be a difference anyway.

If you get a program for an AI or a program from a person that you've never met that isn't

unique to your needs, it's pretty much the same thing.

I've talked on the show before about intent around training.

It's just facts that if you have a goal in mind, unless you have a specific

strategy to reach that goal, it probably won't happen. And if it does, you'll have taken a highly

inefficient path to get there. That starts with an assessment of where you are right now

in your ability to express your goal.

If you want to run a marathon, but right now you can't jog more than 400 meters and have

chronic knee pain, then you need a different approach from someone who can already run 10K.

Intent is also important because if you have a goal in mind, a general approach doesn't work

because it wastes time and energy on things that aren't driving you towards your goal. This week,

with AI on my mind, I thought it would be fun to ask chat GPT a question around training

and see what it came up with. So, chat GPT, write me a

three day a week strength training program. And here's what it spat out. Sure, here's a three day a week

strength training program that focuses on full body strength development. Day one, squat, three

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