I am not a gym bunny, but when an email landed in my inbox, inviting me to form a team for a Hyrox-style fitness challenge to raise money for Irish cancer charities, I was intrigued. I pasted the workout into an AI chatbot and typed in my concern: How realistic was this challenge for someone starting from my fitness level, with just eight weeks to prepare? The five-week knee-push up and burpee plan the AI chatbot provided Nicole GlennonNow, it was time to knuckle down and do the hard part. When I show him the AI-generated five-week push-up/burpee plan, he concedes there is nothing wrong with it, but that I didn’t need an AI chatbot to provide it. But I think, at the core of it, people want people, always will, always have.”An AI chatbot can never replace the accountability and community I’ve found in a physical studio.

Source: Irish Examiner April 03, 2026 01:01 UTC