How can a personal trainer differentiate themselves in a world of AI. Part 1

I am going to leave this post as an open ended series because I believe that this is a topic has many different facets worth discussing. AI has made many aspects of fitness more accessible. Top of mind are things like diet/ nutrition planning, basic starter workouts, and even more advanced questions on exercise theory and progressions. So what is one thing that many people struggle with when starting to exercise or coming back from injury that AI cannot effectively help with? Fear. Fear of re injury, fear of doing things wrong, fear of the unknown. Having a person like Brett or myself who has extensive personal training experience as well as physical therapy education can help most people navigate some of the more nuanced areas of fitness and recovery. We have worked with people from a few days post op all the way back to healthy and everything in between. Both of us feel strongly that bodies are resilient, can adapt, and can almost always do more than people think. We apply evidence based practice to help you understand what is going on with your body so that it doesn’t linger and create fear and anxiety. One of the most accurate predictors of chronic pain is a person’s beliefs about their body. We strive to help you work with your body instead of against it. I so often hear things like “well I just have bad posture” or “i just have a bad back”. What does that mean clinically, what does the data tell us based on your personal history and what can we do about it. It does nobody any good to go through life thinking part of their body is just ambiguously bad. We can help you understand why it might hurt, and more importantly what we can do about it. Giving you tools to manage “a bad back” can take away fear and anxiety around being stuck in pain. Seeing your body, how you move, what your history is, and helping you find a way to feel better and stronger in your body is something that AI cannot do.

Sam