Next year, personalized fitness is getting smarter.

Advances in artificial intelligence on apps and in hardware are leading the charge.

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Advances in AI mean apps, hardware, and biohacking companies will deliver exercise plans made just for you.

(Even though, for the record, those recs are coming from a very sophisticated bot.)

We saw in the first half of [2023] the AI hype whereeverybody was raising money.

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Take OpenAI, which runs the generative AI chatbot ChatGPT.

However, the generative AI boom is only part of the personalization equation.

This data is then bolstered by more powerful algorithms to analyze those learnings.

A young black woman doing post-run stretches in the park on the road amidst green grass and trees.

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Forging ahead on this front is Whoop, which released anOpenAI-powered health coachin its app in September.

Some people have even figured out how to planChatGPT workoutsusing just the ChatGPT interface.

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However, experts warn there are limitations to relying on generalized chatbots like ChatGPT for personalization.

FitnessAI, which costs $90 per year, has been makingprogressive overload weight training-basedworkout plans since 2019.

In 2024, it will debut a similar program for cycling, called VeloDot.

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Personalized fitness options are also becoming increasingly accessibleavailable right in your phone or smartwatchs operating systemno extra apps required.

The platform doesn’t deliver the same messages in the same way to all users.

Some companies in the personalized fitness space have ahardware component.

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It plans to unveil its own biometric data and AI-powered programming later this month or in early 2024.

We are looking at all your biometrics, [and] it’s feeding into the workouts.

Then at the end of the month, you’re doing a scan.

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Let’s change the workout further.

Personalized fitness isnt only for those working out from home, though.

A new smart boutique fitness studio calledLuminopened its flagship location in Texas in September.

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Cameras covering the whole space deliver form feedback directly to users smartphones.

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Healthy female training in the gym, performing a hip thrust.

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