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Seb’s old coach Seb. He and a partner had
Diary of a Weightlifter Weightlifting House business taking just released Weightlifting.ai. This is
off, our direct relationship came to an an artificial intelligence app that adapts
Weightlifting goes A.I. end. Having learned so much from him and changes your program in real time,
I attempted – for awhile – to program based on your performance.
By Thorin Gault y the time you are reading this for myself. While I certainly had the To set it up you tell the program your
Barticle, I will likely have just knowledge to do so successfully, it just personal information, when you are
finished competing at the Canadian was not working. I realized that I need competing, and input all your best lifts.
Masters Weightlifting Championship in an outside ‘authority’ to tell me what to Based on this it produces a program
Moncton, New Brunswick. For many, do. That way, I just show up and put in tailor made for each lifter. Then you
this will be the first large, in-person the work. With my own programming I grade your performance in each set as it
competition since the beginning of the was constantly questioning myself. happens. If you are on fire, the program
pandemic. My next step was to subscribe to a pushes you. If you are sluggish and a bit
This will be my ninth Canadian ‘cookie cutter’ program created by a off, it pulls you back.
Championship and my preparation this coach I was familiar with. I knew that he I have to say that I WAS skeptical
year has been quite unique. really knew his stuff and he had created that it would work, but I have been
Perhaps with some foresight, I hired an excellent online app over the course pleasantly surprised. Being in my late
a virtual coach in 2019. My results of the pandemic. forties with a busy practice and two
had stagnated and I was looking to Again, the program was great, but teenage boys whose lacrosse team I
shake things up. Seb Ostrawicz – out it did not work for me. My almost help coach, sometimes I am just not at
of the UK – became my coach where 49-year-old body just could not recover my best in the gym. The AI picks that up
we exchanged communication and fast enough from the work designed for and adapts accordingly.
video through WhatsApp. It worked younger lifters. It is an exciting technology that I am
phenomenally and I had a great two Three months ago, I gambled my sure will become even more precise over
years of lifting despite doing most of my national’s preparation on a brand-new time. In the meantime, next month I will
training in my garage. technology developed in part by my let you know how it worked out for me.