Can ChatGPT Create Workout Plans Better Than a Personal Trainer? | Sweat Equity

ChatGPT workout plans? AI personal trainers? What’s next, Siri is going to give us a massage while Alexa plops us into a cold plunge?

Well, your job as a gym owner, fitness influencer, or personal trainer is still safe (for now?, but using ChatGPT to create workout programming has interesting implications for the way we automate our fitness businesses and use the most time-saving cutting edge tools to help us grow and manage our fitness businesses better.

Of course, you know we live and breathe fitness business software at Exercise.com—from fitness automations to selling workout plans and running fitness challenges—we want to help you succeed in your fitness business.

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Let’s find out just how good ChatGPT workout plans really are (and all the ways they fall short).

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Can ChatGPT Create Workout Plans Better Than a Personal Trainer?

ChatGPT is happy to create rep max progressions 24/7. No PTO needed. 

So ChatGPT can write code, create articles, do research, and answer your questions better and faster than Google. So what? At least it can never create workout programming like I can…

Or can it?

In the StrongFirst Community Forum, ChatGPT is put to the test, and the results are <gulp>, interesting…

Input:

make me a 4 day a week olympic weightlifting training program

Output:

Here is a sample 4-day per week Olympic weightlifting training program:

Day 1:

• Warm-up: 10-15 minutes of dynamic stretching and mobility exercises
• Technique work: Snatch and clean and jerk technique drills, such as snatch balances and muscle snatches
• Strength training: Squats (front, back, or overhead) and pressing (bench press, push press, or jerk)
• Conditioning: 20-30 minutes of moderate-intensity cardio (cycling, running, rowing, etc.)

Day 2:

• Warm-up: 10-15 minutes of dynamic stretching and mobility exercises
• Technique work: Snatch and clean and jerk technique drills, such as snatch pulls and clean pulls
• Strength training: Deadlifts and pulling (bent over rows, pull-ups, etc.)
• Conditioning: 20-30 minutes of high-intensity interval training (HIIT)

Day 3: Rest day

Day 4:

• Warm-up: 10-15 minutes of dynamic stretching and mobility exercises
• Technique work: Snatch and clean and jerk technique drills, such as snatch and clean pauses and catch work
• Strength training: Squats (front, back, or overhead) and pressing (bench press, push press, or jerk)
• Conditioning: 20-30 minutes of moderate-intensity cardio (cycling, running, rowing, etc.)

Day 5:

• Warm-up: 10-15 minutes of dynamic stretching and mobility exercises
• Technique work: Snatch and clean and jerk technique drills, such as snatch and clean drop and catch
• Strength training: Deadlifts and pulling (bent over rows, pull-ups, etc.)
• Conditioning: 20-30 minutes of high-intensity interval training (HIIT)

Hmmm.

Not horrible for a bot, but 20-30 min of conditioning work after weightlifting practice isn’t going to work well. So let’s iterate:

(Read more at the StrongFirst Community Forum)

While the title is provocative in many ways, in other ways it’s a sign of inevitability. Be honest. Do you clone your workout plan templates and then customize to each client, and sometimes, maybe just sometimes, they don’t really even need all that much customization? 

Well, what if you could feed your AI assistant your workout programming history and then have easy workout programming recommendations loaded up for you to review and approve, rather than create from scratch? 

What if your friendly AI personal trainer assistant could help identify variations in your client’s workouts, RPEs, and other metrics in order to recommend a de-load week or other form of finely calibrated response to their performance? 

Yes, our jobs as fitness professionals will never go away, but the tools we use to help us do our jobs, and do them well, will only get better.

Of course, that’s where we can help.

We may not have an AI personal trainer assistant (yet), but everything from our fitness automations and automated rep max progressions to our automated online workout groups is designed to make your life easier, humming along beside you and your team to help you run your fitness business, and generate more revenue. 

Exercise.com’s platform is the perfect solution for personal trainers and fitness business owners looking to save time and money. With our advanced automation features, you can easily create personalized workout plans for your clients and track their progress automatically. Our automated workout plan progressions make it simple to adjust your clients’ plans as they progress, saving you time and ensuring their continued success. Plus, our platform offers a variety of other features such as scheduling, billing and analytics that can help streamline your business and save you money. Upgrade to Exercise.com and experience the benefits of automation for yourself!

Oh, and this entire last section was written by AI…

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Fitness Meme of the Month

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Five Fitness Finds – AI Edition

Only the best fitness and business of fitness reading recommendations. Send us yours…

1. I taught ChatGPT to write workouts better than most personal trainers – Colin Jenkins, Connect The Watts
2. I used Open AI – Chat GPT to plan my Pilates class – here’s what happened – AI in Fitness – Posture Tonic Pilates
3. The Brilliance and Weirdness of ChatGPT – Kevin Roose, New York Times
4. ChatGPT: Exciting but Limited for Health and Fitness Advice, Here’s What It’s Best Used For – Antranik Kizirian
5. I let ChatGPT program me a five-move muscle-building workout — and the results were surprisingly impressive – James Frew, Fit and Well

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