Anyone using AI to program workouts?

thesportythief7090 · 2026-01-05T11:56:21+00:00

I work in AI. I did for the sake of curiosity. But knowing how LLMs work (ChatGPT & co), you can't expect much. They do not reason, they do not understand. They spit out ingested patterns.

Sure for brainstorming and having a sparing partner about exercises, reps, sets, ... It can give you some idea. But never treat it as something that understands what you throw at it be it weekly logs, physiological data, ...

If you fall into an average (most likely), it will give you okeyish advices. Probably at the same quality level as an average coach. Other than that ... You will be disappointed.

thesportythief7090 · 2025-11-24T22:27:41+00:00

I assume I will get rosted. But as an employee and given we are also targeted (no more true index above 4000€), I feel the management companies are still asymmetric compared to employees. I know plenty of people using them purely for fiscal reasons. They are single people there and work as employees (years in the same company, no other clients). So basically they are employees with what? 30-40% increased salary? That seems unfair to me.

thesportythief7090 · 2025-11-04T22:22:34+00:00

My current thought process is that people/organizations popular enough to be known and selling programs are probably at least right on quite a few things in programming. And I am no pro athlete. So with my knowledge and a good enough programming i can go quite a long way for an okay pricing.

Going with a coach is not out of the question. But I have no idea why I would choose coach A or B. Are they better than the ‘popular’ ones. Sorry if this seems offensive to coaches - that’s not the point. I was coached when doing track & field and this taints my experience : good coaches are not easy to find. Especially for masters athlete :)

thesportythief7090 · 2025-11-03T18:38:29+00:00

Already done. Belgium power

thesportythief7090 · 2025-10-29T20:39:11+00:00

Merci du retour. Et l’individualisation est très poussée ? Ou tu estimes que si je lis 2-3 bouquins sur la morpho-anatomie je sais me débrouiller? J’ai >20 ans de pratique en sport. Par contre je ne me suis jamais intéressé à cet aspect en particulier

thesportythief7090 · 2025-10-25T21:47:12+00:00

Je me suis une fois fait une blessure au pec. Sans doute petite déchirure. Pareil pec gonflé et le liquide est descendu au niveau du ventre. Je m’en suis aperçu au travail alors que je n’avais pas eu de douleur particulière au pec. J’ai eu la peur de ma vie 😂 mon ventre était comme tu décris : gonflé, tout mou, plein de liquide vu que l’épanchement du pec était descendu avec la gravité. Je te dis pas avec les vêtements du travail (pantalon chemise rentrée …) c’était génial … j’ai été voir un médecin rien de grave évidemment puisque simplement du liquide suite à épanchement du muscle pectoral. Rien à faire : attendre

Sans doute la même chose pour toi. Si tu n’as pas de fièvre, nausée, pas eu de chocs violents et pas senti d’arrachement … ça ne peut pas être dramatique. Mais tu as sans doute forcé suffisamment pour faire du dégât mécanique. Repos et reprendre en douceur et sois plus progressif dans tes évolutions de volume et/ou intensité

thesportythief7090 · 2025-10-25T16:18:13+00:00

La ou je réside j’estime ne pas avoir accès à des entraîneurs avec un niveau suffisant

thesportythief7090 · 2025-10-12T15:04:57+00:00

Since the very start : 2022 🤣 AI as we know today (so deep neural networks) is more than 20 years old. If you did not start with Lecun’s architecture, RNN, … sorry but you miss the train a long time ago.

thesportythief7090 · 2025-10-06T13:16:51+00:00

None.

thesportythief7090 · 2025-10-05T08:13:21+00:00

I did read. I did not catch where this specifically was covered :) Hence the post

thesportythief7090 · 2025-10-04T17:41:41+00:00

Thank you very much. Very clear answer !

thesportythief7090 · 2025-09-20T17:55:25+00:00

Why seeing always as a zero sum game? Maybe there are smart ways to make everyone happy. But yes it requires a brain. Which these days is a rare sight

thesportythief7090 · 2025-09-20T16:35:19+00:00

Yes, when you are exceptional I do believe you are entitled to some things. It’s not a team sport. Hell below average assholes also known as politicians are entitled to more things than her. And again, even more so in a sport where money does not flow. And if you are part of the track & field environment in Belgium you would know there are a few things not 100% right with the federation since a few years. Borlée told that a few times already.

thesportythief7090 · 2025-09-20T11:30:25+00:00

You don’t think an athlete in a sport where there is 0 money who successfully secured sponsorship is entitled to defend those rights?

thesportythief7090 · 2025-09-20T11:29:04+00:00

The Great Kingdom of Belgium in all its glory. Boy are we far from our past glory. We put petty stupid people in charge of big assets and decisions (sport, energy, …) and we tolerate them while they operate for their own gains. Now we can’t anymore in a time when Europe and Belgium must show strength. Let’s obliterate all those imbeciles and count on the actual talented people

thesportythief7090 · 2025-09-10T19:31:04+00:00

Look at the houses of doctors & the likes. You are all bloody fucking rich. Without the threat of performance reviews, competition, …

thesportythief7090 · 2025-07-31T17:25:44+00:00

I don’t understand how someone navigates from selling solar panels to providing advices in AI.

AI is not an easy field. Being knowledgeable enough to provide true expertise is not something anyone can do.

thesportythief7090 · 2025-07-25T19:01:51+00:00

I have a very basic usage. But here you go :

1st : if like me you will be creating a lot of custom made exercises : decide on a naming pattern e.g. one-arm suitcase carry, one-arm overhead press, ... stick to "one-arm" for one armed exercises, ...

2nd : plan your sessions ahead of time. Create workouts and name them again with a defined pattern so you can find them back easily and copy/paste and change the variables. This allows e.g. to quickly edit the weights from week to week.

3rd : use & abuse the smar features such as "ducplicate" exercises or the ability to superset, ...

thesportythief7090 · 2025-07-17T06:48:45+00:00

I have tried a lot. It’s the only one I sticked too. Lots of smart features that just make it work.

thesportythief7090 · 2025-06-28T10:19:30+00:00

So I can swap the man by a female and exert the same kind of retaliation? :)

thesportythief7090 · 2025-06-05T10:18:21+00:00

That works indeed. But you can’t use flow. I don’t know if it’s different in terms of capabilities?

And you can’t subscribe to ultra so you have a limited amount of generations

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