From ‘it helped me stick to a routine’ to ‘I despise it’: how people are using AI for fitness
TL;DR
While some are using AI to tailor programs better suited to their needs, others warn ‘it can be wrong, confidently so’ People have mixed feelings about AI. While many people regularly use it – 62% in the US and 69% in the UK – trust in the technology is low. In the US, only 26% of people have a positive view of AI, according to one NBC poll, and in the UK, 78% say they worry about negative outcomes from AI. So it is perhaps no surprise that readers’ responses to our callout about AI and fitness were varied.
Nauti's Take
Real user feedback shows what AI actually delivers in fitness — personalized plans and routines that people stick to. At the same time, users rightly warn it "can be wrong, confidently so" — bad volumes, risky loading, blind trust is dangerous.
Anyone shipping fitness AI should bake in disclaimers, hard limits and a clear path back to a human coach — anything else is hype.
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