Twin [archival audio]: Key bodyweight exercises, squats, stand with feet shoulder-width apart, lower your hips as if you were sitting in a chair, keep your back straight and your chest up. Go as low as you can comfortably.
Michael Calore: Lunges for each leg, three sets of 10, plank, three sets of hold for 30 to 60 seconds, which is torture. Glute bridges, three sets of 15 reps. And then it's about progressive overload and about rest days and all that stuff, which is great. And then I thought, 'Okay, I don't know how to do a lunge. Can you show me how to do a lunge?” And I was shown a bunch of videos, five videos.
Lauren Goode: YouTube probably?
Michael Calore: Yes, they were YouTube videos. Two of the links were exactly the same, but I watched all the videos and thought, “Okay, I feel like I can do a lunge now.” And I lunged and I didn't hurt myself, and I felt the burn. So I feel like that's pretty good.
Lauren Goode: That's actually pretty awesome.
Michael Calore: Yes. The only thing that was weird was that I searched Google and found the exact same information in a bunch of different places. And other than the video, I don't know where Gemini got this information from. I don't even know where it gets the recipes from. It was all presented to me as, “This is what Gemini says.”
Lauren Goode: No source.
Michael Calore: No source. And I looked through everything, and I didn't see a single good source.
Lauren Goode: And presumably people put together those workout plans or wrote about those recipes. And that's published, and sorry, but your infinitesimal bits of data are now being chopped up and added to a recipe, and you have no idea where it came from.
Michael Calore: Julienne.
Lauren Goode: That's right.
Zoë Schiffer: Okay, so are you going to keep doing this? Will you continue to use it for this purpose, or did it feel like a one-off experiment?
Michael Calore: Honestly, the training regimen is pretty solid. I'll keep doing it.
Lauren Goode: Nice.
Michael Calore: And as for recipes, I have so many cookbooks and so many years of experience making food for myself that I definitely don't need to make this quinoa salad again, Lauren, unless you want me to make it and give you some. of it.
Lauren Goode: I've had other meals you've made, and I think I might suggest them next time.
Zoë Schiffer: So diplomatic.
Michael Calore: Okay, great.
Lauren Goode: But thank you, I appreciate you.
Michael Calore: So I have to say that for me, as a person who understands myself and understands my own needs, it wasn't really a big help. The training was fun. I could have figured that out without Gemini 2.O, but as someone new to this or if anyone has a lot of questions, or if anyone is considering making these types of lifestyle changes, it actually provided some pretty good advice.
