Yeah, I’ve talked with Mike a bit about some of the methods he could use to make it happen. That would be cool to see. Five years from now I think lots of people will be training with some kind of AI helping out. It’s certainly nice to remove that human factor from the equation.
Short story from my own experience. I’ve wanted to build this AI for several years but just had no idea how it would all come together. So I built little pieces of the puzzle one by one over time that I thought would be useful in the future. Fast forward to the point where the AI was ready to create my very first workout all by itself. I had trained it with my regular workouts for a month and was totally pumped to see what it gave me. It spit out what I recognized was one of the lowest stress protocols for squats. Man, I was really disappointed. That absolutely did not match my mental state and expectations. I wanted to ignore it and do what I “felt” like doing instead. But I went with it and followed the AI. The next day I was feeling it already. I hadn’t been sore for a while either so that was a surprise. It turned out that was indeed the right squat stress for me. Had I followed my emotional state and gone hard I’d have been wrecked.
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Yeah, it’ll adjust the weights during the workout if they are not resulting in the intended level of stress. There are only some days where the intended RPE is low. That would be a recovery day. Otherwise, the efforts on worksets should average around RPE 8.
If your worksets are consistently low RPE there’s a good chance that means you’ve gotten stronger and it would be wise to retest your maxes to claim those gains. You may initiate those tests at any time with a button click during the preworkout questions. How often you do that depends on your rate of progress. So there’s no fixed rule for that.
I also agree with that. I think that is an uncontroversial statement. But I would make one small adjustment to the wording. I’d say the Max Effort method is the most effective way to realize strength potential.
Take a pair of twins. One starts training with ME exclusively (90% and up). The other starts with the Repetition Effort method around 70-80%. They train for 6 months. If the ME guy is still in one piece he’ll most likely be stronger than the RE guy. But take that RE guy and switch him over to ME at month #5 and I’d bet money he would be stronger than the ME only guy at the end of month #6. The reason being is all that RE work built up his muscle mass more effectively and that increased his “potential” for strength. He just needed to finish up with some time doing ME to “realize” that potential.
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Im just waiting the android/beta to come out. Ill be all in.