AI will optimize your fitness. It can’t replace why you actually show up.

AI will optimize your fitness. It can’t replace why you actually show up.

There’s significant impact incoming. I think we’re still only in the early stages and it’s moving fast.

My training software now optimizes with AI, its here and it’s not going anywhere.

We’re already seeing it reshape the space in ways that matter:

∙Drug discovery and personalized therapies moving at a speed that wasn’t possible five years ago

∙Wearables and apps that don’t just track your habits but actually learn them and call you out when you drift

∙Nutrition plans built around your biomarkers, not just a generic macro split copied from a fitness forum

∙Recovery protocols adapted in real time based on sleep quality, HRV, and stress load

∙AI coaches that can give decent programming to anyone, anywhere, at any price

∙Mental health tools that lower the barrier to support for people who’d never walk into a therapist’s office

That last one all by itself is huge, complicated but useful.

But here’s where I’ll push back on the narrative of replacement and I say this as someone who works in this space every day.

The thing AI cannot replicate in its own unique nature is the human being across from you who actually cares whether you show up, because they are physically and emotionally invested in your success.

Someone who cares if you live or die.

That’s just what I see in my work. Maybe 5% of the people I train just need a solid program and they’ll execute all on their own. Give them the plan, get out of the way and AI is genuinely great for that 5%.

The other 95%? They need someone in their corner. They want the relationship. The accountability that comes from not wanting to let a person down, not an algorithm.

The conversation before a session where something real and deep gets said. That’s a lot harder to build. I’ll stray from saying impossible 👀

My take: AI is a partner, not a replacement. The coaches and trainers who thrive going forward are the ones who use it as a tool to free up more time for the human side of the work, not the ones who fight it or the ones who think it makes them obsolete.

The need for connection isn’t a bug in the system, it’s the whole point.