{"id":559,"date":"2025-10-07T12:05:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T11:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/vice-chancellor\/?p=559"},"modified":"2025-10-07T12:05:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T11:05:16","slug":"bbc-radio-4-professor-nick-jennings-joins-the-artificial-human-podcast-to-discuss-if-ai-can-help-make-all-of-us-fitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/vice-chancellor\/2025\/10\/07\/bbc-radio-4-professor-nick-jennings-joins-the-artificial-human-podcast-to-discuss-if-ai-can-help-make-all-of-us-fitter\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Radio 4: Professor Nick Jennings joins &#8216;The Artificial Human&#8217; podcast to discuss if AI can help make all of us fitter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/vice-chancellor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2025\/10\/ai-human-podcast-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Orange background with photo of Aleks Krotoski and Kevin Fong alongside the BBC and 'The Artificial Human' logos.\" class=\"wp-image-564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/vice-chancellor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2025\/10\/ai-human-podcast-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/vice-chancellor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2025\/10\/ai-human-podcast-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/vice-chancellor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2025\/10\/ai-human-podcast-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/vice-chancellor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2025\/10\/ai-human-podcast-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/vice-chancellor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2025\/10\/ai-human-podcast.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"btn-wrappers\">\n<div class=\"btn-wrapper is-style-fill\"><a class=\"btn btn-primary wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/m002jtyn\">Listen here<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This podcast episode was published by BBC Radio 4 in September 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What would make you want to exercise? Is it the thrill of being discovered as the next football legend? Or maybe the threat of a scary drill sergeant shouting at you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Join Aleks and Kevin at the starting line, as they set out to discover how AI could help reshape your fitness goals. From what the high end athletes are using to track their progress and how that trickles down to everyday users, to how AI is levelling the playing field when it comes to scouting new talent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This podcast episode was published by BBC Radio 4 in September 2025. What would make you want to exercise? Is it the thrill of being discovered as the next football legend? Or maybe the threat of a scary drill sergeant shouting at you? Join Aleks and Kevin at the starting line, as they set out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":727,"featured_media":564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"lboro_blog_alternative_thumbnail_image":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/vice-chancellor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/vice-chancellor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/vice-chancellor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/vice-chancellor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/727"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/vice-chancellor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/vice-chancellor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":571,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/vice-chancellor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions\/571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/vice-chancellor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/vice-chancellor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/vice-chancellor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/vice-chancellor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}