I just used AI to save me weeks of experimenting when it comes to my diet plan and supplement protocol.

AI is all anyone talks about these days and it couldn’t be any more annoying.

• It’s going to take our jobs
• It’s useless and we shouldn’t use it
• It’s going to take over the world and enslave us all

It turns out that it’s none of those things. To be honest, I used to think it was useless. Any time I used it I didn’t get the answers I was looking for.

But it turns out that AI is just a tool, and like any other tool, it’s only as good as the person using it.

Give me a hammer and I could put a nail in a wall. Give someone else a hammer and they could build a house. It’s all about how you use it.

The main tip

I think the biggest tip I can give with AI — especially when it comes to health and fitness — is to just look at it like google on steroids.

I remember trying to use it to write copy for me back when I was doing some marketing stuff. It would end up taking me longer to write the copy using chatGPT than it would’ve taken me to just write it on my own.

I just wanted it to do the typing for me instead of spending an hour writing it out — but it would come out robotic because that’s what it is — robotic.

In the end you’re still going to have to do the thing. Back then it was writing the copy. But in terms of health we still have to do the workout, follow the meal plan, buy the supplements, get the blood work.

I think people are just trying to sell AI like a magic pill — just like anything else in this modern age.

We’re constantly looking for the thing that’s going to save us with no effort — no matter what it is we’re doing — and AI still can’t do that.

So when it comes to using it for health and fitness, just use it like google on steroids. Imagine you could give google your exact scenario and it could sum up all of the results into a summary tailored for you. That’s how you use it.

Build your own GPT’s (or find ones that are already built)

With chatGPT you can build your own GPT’s. You want to do that or find one that somebody else has already built.

The most success I had with AI with copywriting was when I built a GPT specifically for market research. It would set me up to write the copy with a good foundation of who I was actually writing to.

AI needs context. It’s gotten pretty powerful, but with that it also has a lot of information to deal with. The people who make chatGPT need to find the balance of making it more powerful but also being able to find the context that people are actually talking about.

With that said, if you build your own, you can give it context ahead of time. You can setup different GPT’s based on the things you research the most. In this case health and fitness.

This way you’ll be able to just plug in what you need to know and it will talk to you in the tone and context that you’ve already told it.

Avoid your own experiments

So, the reason I’m talking about this in the first place is because I like to be efficient, and I want to help people hit their fitness goals efficiently.

That means becoming competent in all areas (athleticism, strength, endurance, mobility) and doing it in a way that allows you to still live your life how you want to while building some discipline in the process.

Normally that would mean weeks of experimentation just to find the right way to do things, but AI can do that for you in like an hour.

After my knee surgeries I realized if I just jumped back into the active lifestyle I had then I would just keep getting hurt, not fully healing, and not fix the root problem.

This meant I won’t be able to do loads of cardio — but I still want to lose the weight I gained from sitting around for 6 months.

I thought I had it figured out. Take some supplements, eat a bit cleaner, do cardio where I could, and I’d be fine. But my weight was staying the same.

I’m not one to count every calorie and track every exercise — so I got chatGPT to just do it for me.

Before, if you had a specific problem, you had to google the problem and look through reddit posts until you found someone who dealt with something similar.

This is where AI shines.

I gave it all of the context I had. The knee surgeries, the things I like to eat, the lack of cardio, the diet I’m running, my routine for the week, the goal I wanted to hit — and it solved all of my problems in a matter of minutes.

The outcome was a full diet plan and full supplement stack that would help me lose weight given my exact situation and routine.

• The exact supplements to take and when
• The exact foods to eat based on my routine, the diet I’m following, and what I like
• Keeping the muscle I have
• No calorie counting, just eyeballing it and watching what the scale says

The next week I was down 3 pounds. Right where I need to be to get back to the weight I was at pre surgery.

You still have to do research

I would never tell a total beginner to just jump into this. Without specific context it can miss key points. The reason this works is because I can check what it spits out and decide if it makes sense.

It’s like with marketing. I know how to write good copy so I knew that the copy it was giving me was bad. If I didn’t know any better I would’ve thought it was good and pissed off my clients my giving them robot copy.

So there’s 2 sides to knowing how to use it. Knowing how to give it the context it needs, but also knowing whether or not what it tells you makes sense.

When I built my supplement stack it missed a very important point.

TMAO is a byproduct that’s made by certain bacteria in our system when it breaks down red meat, choline, and L-Carnitine. It can cause cardiovascular issues over a long period of time.

L-Carnitine was one of the supplements in my stack, and it didn’t mention TMAO levels at all, let alone that taking garlic with L-Carnitine neutralizes that effect. Had I not done any research and kept taking L-Carnitine for a long time, I could’ve ended up with a lot of irreversible plaque buildup that could’ve been avoided.

So be especially careful when it comes to health, fitness, and anything medical.

When it comes to these things (mainly talking supplements here) make sure to have it give you the benefits, negatives, and anything that could possibly be negative based on the mechanism the supplement is targeting.

I make sure to give it a few prompts to cover any negative side effects when it comes to diet and supplementing. I don’t want to kill myself over the advice of a robot. That’s when they take over.

This goes back to it being a tool. You only know if the outcome makes sense based on what you already know. Again, Google on steroids, or like an advisor on your health journey. You still have to make the final call.

In the end, I spent maybe an hour or two messing around with a health GPT last week and ended up with an entire meal plan and supplement protocol to run for the next few weeks to lose some weight.

I don’t have to count calories, I don’t have to spend weeks experimenting, I have the exact protocols, tailored to my exact situation, to get to where I want to go.

What used to take years of figuring things out can now be done in minutes.

The point of this one is efficiency. I want to help you get the answers you need so you can take action without weeks of unnecessary self experimentation.

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