Interview with Jessica Reiss: “Taking a look at your movements is an amazing way to qualify balance.
- Jun 28, 2016
- 3 min read
I had the pleasure to interview and speak with Jessica Reiss, a personal trainer who currently works at ONE Boulder Fitness. With BaziFIT sponsoring her as an athlete, she has been an important resource for us by helping us test our products at ONE Boulder Fitness on a variety of different clients.
Tapping into the minds of different people involved with BaziFIT, enables us to gain a greater understanding of what our products provide to others. Jessica provided us with very useful insights on what quantified progress training is all about and how technology in the gym space is impacting our world today.
Q: As technology becomes more and more a part of our everyday life, and we depend on our smartphone devices, where do you see technology getting into the gym/fitness/training space?
A: It is all about convenience. Inhibition and excitement is technology. Once it becomes difficult, people want to feel freedom from their technological devices, and technology all together. They have this necessity to measure and require those results. We need to be able to have it be convenient. It is all about when we want to use it and when we can’t use it.
Q: In what ways is the increasing introduction of technology in the gym a good thing? In what ways is it bad?
A: Depends - good and bad. On the one hand, it can be a complete distraction with getting in tune with your body. On the other hand, the tools we use help us calibrate and understand our body even more. People in this day and age are misled by what they are experiencing in the gym. For example, take the treadmill. The numbers calculated for you are an estimate of how many calories you lose. It never provides you with an exact number, and it is thus an incorrect measurement of the calories you are losing.
“Feel your body first, and use those tools correctly. We can identify if one side is measuring the other side.”
Q: How does a device like BaziFIT’s specifically affect personal training and trainers? Would that sort of democratize the personal training industry and give more people access to quality feedback and techniques (on a mass scale but still tuned to each individual)? Or does it cheapen that somehow?
A: Depends - like all good things. If one has accessibility and convenience that can help them be healthier GREAT, but you cannot replace people. We all need each other, you need someone to touch base with - even the Dalai Lama needs a person in front of him to touch base with - it is extremely important. I am a trainer and I have my own trainer. I can motivate myself to a certain extent, but I also need someone to remind me of the same things I remind my clients.
Q: Why do you think Quantified Progress Training is important?
A: It helps us calibrate our feeling. The strategy is “to feel, don’t think first” - it allows us to keep matters tangible and numerical. We can push ourselves so far. I narrow it down with other cues. I can allow them to feel it and then show them with a number - we can write it down and make it tangible. It allows people to compare and take notes and become more accountable for their workout progress. You have this greater desire to make that number the one you desire.
Overall, Jessica provided us with very useful insights. She states that it is a pleasure for her to use BaziFIT’s product. We are in a new generation where the use of technology is increasing exponentially. It’s time to get on this technology train and start making a difference within the quantified physical training world.
Look out, the first stop is BaziFIT.
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