How is AI revolutionizing the Fitness Industry?

"Health is wealth!" For hundreds of decades, we have known this saying. But only 20-30% of the globe truly has healthy habits and, other than walking, the rest of the 70% have no physical exercise. Indeed, adults are not fitness-related and early in life acquire health problems. However, individuals have turned to their health and wellbeing during the past several months. It is, of course, because of the coronavirus COVID-19!

 

Our lives get busier, and we barely have time to practice on a regular basis. It is even more difficult to maintain a healthy diet! Then, a lot of confused issues arise: which diet works best? What plan is to be chosen? These all appear a bit scary. But nothing to worry about; artificial intelligence is here to assist!

 

Yes, AI revolutionizes fitness through fitness equipment that makes home workouts smarter and better. In addition to the smart wearable (Apple Watch, Fitbit, and more), which may help you track your fitness, personal AI trainers are also gaining in popularity at an unparalleled rate.

 

Those who use AI personal trainers would know this new notion in the field of fitness, but those who are amateur must be intrigued about it.

 

How AI in Fitness is Revolutionizing the Fitness Industry?

 

The AI's fitness benefits are enormous. Here are some of the current fitness trends.

 

AI-Based Personal Trainer

 

Saving time to go to a gym and get a personal trainer might cost you an arm and a leg in this rapidly and chaotic existence. We're not joking! We're not kidding! Personal trainers with significant expertise may not be cheap for everybody. But integrated fitness applications with artificial intelligence are a fantastic approach for those who want their fitness objectives to be achieved.

 

More excitingly, the AI trainers operate like human trainers; sure, they advise you on the proper way to exert. You may also have a one-on-one setting and receive feedback throughout an exercise on your posture.

 

AI-driven human pose estimation technology is a breakthrough that is interesting for AI personal trainer applications.

 

Human Pose Estimation Technology

 

The assessment of human poses is sophisticated technology based on computer vision. It's like face recognition for the whole body. Human pose estimation systems detect and evaluate the posture of the human body using three analytical methods:

 

Skeleton modeling: This employs key points to depict the human body's skeletal system.

 

Contours modeling: This employs the body's raw breadth and extremities to display a person's figure's rectangular border boxes.

 

Modeling Volume: This analytical approach employs 3D body scans to capture the body using geometric meshes and forms.

 

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3D human pose estimation technology

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Examples of fitness applications that employ innovation driven by AI are Zenia and Freeletics.

 

Zenia is the best example of an AI-based fitness application that uses human pose estimation technology to enable users to do yoga in the proper way.Individual Yoga Instructors help students continually to adjust their position and maintain every yoga stance.

 

Zenia works by downloading a new user and installing the software using a camera on its smartphone, creating an account, and placing the camera with a full-size view of the yoga practice area.

 

Freeletics is a fitness application driven by AI, which Forbes claims is utilized in over 160 countries by over 47 million people. The reason behind the huge success of Freeletics is that the application produces a customized exercise from more than 3.5 million possibilities for every user. Every personalized program is designed to enhance the health of a person.

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 Freeletics

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Fitness training with AI can get better results than with the human trainer since the software understands more exercises and has access to more data.

 

Smart fitness Clothes and Wearables

 

AI powered solutions in smart clothing and wearables make significant progress. Clothes and other things that may be worn include sensors connected to systems that assist to correct biomechanics (e.g. golfer swinging), enhance athlete's performance metrics and improve fitness. The best examples of this category are Asensei and Wearable X (Nadi X brand)

 

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Smart Wearables

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Asensei developed a range of intelligent clothing with black compression shirts and pants each containing five inertial sensors. These sensors generate data important for enhancing posture, technology, shape, and timing in sports. The clothing and wearable strips incorporating sensors contribute to strength training and yoga. 

 

We have numerous uses for sporting programs, in particular, sport in vast areas, where it is difficult, for example on golf courses and in baseball fields, to employ precise camera coverage.

 

Wearable X produces Nadi X yoga pants including two sensor kinds. Wearable X is the future of wellness, which combines design, technology, and a new fashion to produce a better quality of life. The sensors are built-in speed meters and haptic monitors. Haptic monitoring creates vibrations by rotating a mass that reacts like a little gyroscope to motions. With respect to the earth's gravitational fields, the sensors measure positions on the X, Y, and Z axes.

 

A battery-driven microcontroller delivers data to an app on a nearby smartphone or Bluetooth-powered device over a Bluetooth wired connection. The batteries may be recharged through a micro USB connection and are lithium polymers.

 

Also Read: How is technology revolutionizing Yoga?

 

Exercise Anywhere Anytime

 

One of the major benefits of utilizing these fitness apps is that you may work out anywhere and anytime. Your cell phone and internet connection are the only prerequisites.

 

You have no excuse to leave your workout whether you are on a business tour, on a family vacation, or for whatever reason away from your regular abode.

 

 

AI-Driven Diet Planning

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AI-driven diet planning

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The use of AI in fitness applications adds extra value to your diet and meal planning efforts. This AI-driven diet planning tool helps you if you're willing to accomplish a certain weight or a certain fitness objective.

 

Personalized  Diet Charts - The choice of food is crucial for achieving any fitness objective. Studies have really shown that nutrition is more essential for good health than exercise. Some of the greatest home training applications thus give you tailored diet diagrams.

 

You may also choose the correct way to get a vegetarian, non-vegetarian, protein-rich, carbohydrate, or any other diet plan. FitGenie and HealthifyMe are two popular applications in this category.

 

FitGenie is an intelligent calorie counter. It operates by making suggestions for dietary planning by utilizing a machine learning system. This supports those who wish to reach a set weight during diet or accomplish a certain fitness goal.

 

The system maps and predicts the progress of an individual and makes weekly changes depending on the collected information. The data modeling is based on scientific data, human life coaches' experiences, body composition figures, adherence to the diet plan, weight change rates, hunger, tiredness, and other specific indicators.

 

HealthifyMe's artificial intellectual virtual assistant "Ria" is a prominent health and fitness application in India and addresses fitness and nutrition concerns for its users in as many as zehn languages. After taking into account user data and other health indicators, the bot also provides recommendations for diets. The software uses data taken from these devices to develop the algorithm that is freely available by its users as compatibility with major physical fitness trackers.

 

Also, read: Top 11 Food Startups in India

 

Performance Improvement

 

Fitness enthusiasts and amateurs can be included in various fitness devices and wardrobes to help them create individualized fitness objectives based on a wide range of criteria. As data and AI technologies may give meaningful insights, height, weight, and other characteristics are taken into consideration.

 

Users can in some manner increase their performance and achieve their fitness objectives. In the future, Al applications will be used to maximize benefits and possibilities for fitness AI.

 

When AI-based features are integrated into personalized fitness applications, businesses or clubs may attract more customers and boost revenue. You may also make wise decisions in real-time with features based on AI.

 

 

Applications of AI in Fitness

 

AI has a huge potential for the fitness industry. Here are the top applications are driven by revolutionary AI technology-

 

• AI-powered wristbands and gadgets

• AI-driven diet and nutrition apps

• Intelligence footwear powered by artificial intelligence

• Smart assistants for gyms and other health clubs

• AI-powered yoga suits to monitor movement and set accurate posture during an asana

 

“AI Will Soon Set Mini Gym In Every Home!”

 

 

Conclusion

 

We barely have time to practice on a regular basis as our lives get busier. However, AI tries to overcome this problem in fitness. These new applications and devices are intended to alter and make us more aware of our fitness journey. I'm delighted to see AI's fitness sector disrupted as people's habits continue to evolve.

 

Artificial Intelligence has entered nearly every industry, health and fitness included. The technology enables people to stay healthy well by achieving workout goals without going into the fitness center. 

 

Today, we have several AI-powered mobile applications with AI assistants to offer fitness and eating habits to individuals.Some of these applications also assist their users track their everyday fitness.