There is no app for reading body language, decoding tone, & making calculated adjustments in real time.
“The most valuable aspect of coaching is the human element.
Nothing against tech, but it’ll never beat a seasoned coach who knows how to read athlete body language, decode verbal tone, & act on intuition in real time based on feedback presented.
There aint no app for that.”
-Ray Zingler on Twitter
I love tech, I do. I think it’s amazing to be able to streamline processes that were once extremely complex/time consuming.
I responded to a DM from a guy in London, England the other day and he received it faster than I could point London out on a map.
Sure, the internet in normal now, but the concept of rapidly communicating with people across the globe in real time from a device with more tech on it than NASA had when we first landed on the moon, from a small electronic rectangle that fits in my pocket, still blows my mind.
I’m not Anti-Tech, not at all, but I am PRO-People.
In 2022, the Tech industry is trying to “take over” the Strength, Health, & Fitness industry.
“There’s an app for that!”
“Your own personal, virtual coach!”
“This machine adjusts the weight for you!”
Again, I think the technology is cool and it may work for some folks.
But what tech fails to understand, especially in a field as human-driven as Strength, Health, & Fitness is the real time, emotionally connected, human elements.
On the surface many people think of training in the context of exercises, sets, reps, & rest periods.
“Do these exercises, for this many sets & reps, and rest this much time in between sets.”
As much as this can get ANYBODY started, it’s merely a starting point.
Don’t believe me? Ask any good mechanic if every job he’s ever done was completely guided by the book and if his initial plan to fix ‘x’ was carried out to a T.
I can assure you, he’d laugh at you. And while the mechanic is extraordinarily valuable to society, he is working on the mechanical componentry of an OBJECT.
I’m talking about PEOPLE. Taking nothing away from the mechanic, but people are infinitely more complex than metal.
The deeper you get into the field of S&C/H&F, you start to understand just how elementary programming is.
Again, that is the baseline. It’s the auto regulation of real people in real time, that is the hard part. It’s listening to real people with your ears AND eyes and making adjustments based on what people are presenting, AFTER you read in between the lines.
This is nothing short of an art that can only be improved through significant periods of time and practice. It’s an art technology will NEVER be able to replace.
People >.
