"An Analog-Fitness Enthusiast and Professional"

Off-the-cuff thoughts here:

Mostly, I am offering face-to-face services as a consultant, personal trainer, athletic conditioning coach, and kinesiologist/clinical exercise physiologist.

Can you imagine a residential seniors home that only has robots working with the seniors? Probably not. Can you imagine a 6 year old spending a whole day with AI? Would they not still need the human, empathic hand of a real teacher. What about a doctor? Now, what about a higher level personal trainer or kinesiologist? Make no mistake; in this digital (AI) platform age, my offerings are backed up (steeped) with education, experience, and ongoing study/practice. I think we can agree that human empathy and comfort are going to be important; maybe more so than ever. Even the science based programming at this point is quite easily rendered "less than" by those in the know.

I am enjoying watching certain Gen Z hotshots getting there nervous system and souls upgraded as they gobble up music from the sixties, seventies, eighties and nineties.

Now let's take that example to movement, sport, physical education and kinesiology: Let me describe my background some--to illustrate why some persons will need real qualified human beings to work with them (and this scenario may never really go away):

Growing up in Northern Ontario, the outdoors, year round, was foundational. A lot of freedom in terms of time and range of territory. We played a lot outdoors; both structured/organized and unstructured/free-of-supervision. We were lucky to access public outdoor skating rinks just down the street, downhill skis a walk away. We snowshoed, fished, and even had hunting experience with guns at an appropriate age. We winter camped and snared rabbits which we cooked over a fire not very far from our suburb. We road bikes, tobogganed, canoed, and drove boats, skidoos, and some family even eventually flew bush-planes. We played organized hockey in a hockey crazed culture; I also played organized baseball, soccer, basketball, volleyball, and loved pick-up football (and hockey). I downhill skied. Was a city tennis champion. Swam in lakes with ice still melting away.

I took national-team-aspiring gymnastics--from age 14-27. As a gymnast, I was introduced to and coached by persons from leading Japanese and Soviet systems.

Recognized as having potential to be a coach/teacher, I was hand picked by a mentor/coach to be one of the youngest coaching certification course conductors (at age 19) for the Canadian sports ministry (i.e., a recognized/certified expert in movement and conditioning). I taught laypersons and teachers to be certified gymnastics coaches.

More opportunities to grow and develop: The previous certification with the government got me into 3 different Canadian universities as a gymnastics instructor for Physical Education students (the last was at U of Toronto for 5 year until I left grad school at age 31). At age 22, I took up Taekwondo/hapkido with a Korean master, having attained 4th degree ranking by age 27,--and then ran/instructed a university club, developing 5 black belts in 5 years time. I should mention that my undergrad Physical and Health Education degree involved first aid courses, outdoor education, and numerous individual and team sports courses (i.e., how to coach said activities). Most of the grads went on to become career physical and health education teachers in the school systems.

Getting the picture? It would involve another 30 plus years of of professional work(s). I have not mentioned a considerable amount of training in empathic listening and psycho-social supports. This background described above is certainly not a fly-by-night ("deep-fake") process. Nor are the services and educational/training materials that I offer. If you take up my offer to download my fitness and mobility guidebooks (free) you will have resources that any kid in the seventies would have studied religiously to get good at something. I am talking about an "analog" sensibility here. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was a cult classic book amongst some of my generation.

Digital influences?:

I married a computer/electrical engineer that went quite the distance with IT, ending up as an executive for one of Canada's largest telecommunications companies overseeing the introduction of new technology products and services. I got some insights.

The same books that I give out on this blog were also developed with platforms in mind (reviewed by computer, communications and fitness/mobility experts). A bit dated in some respects (15 years ago), my written and illustrated offerings were drawn out/design during the dawning of earlier AI concepts (think Duolingo, the language acquisition platform).

Nowadays, some platform contents can benefit society. And variety is good because everyone is somewhat unique in their learning style. So, it's good to have lots of good choices.

If what I offer seems to appeal and benefit a certain profile of client/viewer/reader/user (and it does), I'm so glad.