{"id":716,"date":"2018-05-03T07:38:46","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T07:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=716"},"modified":"2018-05-04T07:42:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T07:42:24","slug":"can-crowdsourced-exercise-plans-replace-personal-trainers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=716","title":{"rendered":"Can Crowdsourced Exercise Plans Replace Personal Trainers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>At the start of each year, once the hangover subsides, and the daily grind starts anew, people flock to the local health club with the self-affirming promise to \u201cget in shape\u201d and lose that holiday weight.<\/p>\n<p>Enter CrowdFit, a platform for exercise planning that relies on crowdsourcing from non-experts to create workout regimens guided by national exercise recommendations and tailored around user schedules and interests.<\/p>\n<p>In early tests, the program proved superior to professional plans, offering more appropriate levels of exercise, a better progression of activities, applicable strengthening routines, and improved compositions.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers presented a paper on CrowdFit last month at the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>A non-expert (volunteers who lack the formal education and expertise of a personal trainer) mold that profile\u2014along with exercise and health guidelines provided by CrowdFit\u2014to create a made-to-order week-long plan for the user.<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/tech\/can-crowdsourced-exercise-plans-replace-personal-trainers-1738982\/\">Geek.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the start of each year, once the hangover subsides, and the daily grind starts anew, people flock to the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[14,11],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exercise","category-nutrition","tag-exercise","tag-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions\/718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}