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The first day at a new job is always weird. You have no idea what you're supposed to be doing, who to talk to, or how to even really be. The theory is that over time you get the hang of it — but lots of workers make it months into their jobs and feel like they're still kind of winging it. It's not that they don't want to learn; it's that nobody's teaching them. In many pockets of corporate America, on-the-job training mostly amounts to "figure it out." Workers are struggling to get a handle on their jobs, and this failure falls on everyone — companies, managers, human-resources departments, and, in some cases, the workers themselves.You don't need to look far to find evidence that people don't feel ready when it comes to work. Some <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-workers-are-lazy-lack-soft-skills-managers-say-2023-8">bosses complain</a> that Gen Z workers don't know what they're doing and are lazy. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-lazy-hiring-jobs-careers-hr-training-pandemic-2024-8">HR professionals and Gen Z workers</a> argue that young people want to be successful in the workforce, but they simply aren't given the tools to do it. In a survey from the <a target="_blank" href="https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2023/09/27/adobe-future-workforce-study-what-us-employers-need-know-about-gen-z-workplace#:~:text=Gen%20Z%20is%20hungry%20for%20mentorship%20and%20development&amp;text=Gen%20Z%20is%20eager%20for,percent)%20reported%20having%20a%20mentor.">software company Adobe</a>, 83% of Gen Z respondents said having a mentor at work was crucial to their career, but only half said they had a mentor. It's not just young workers who are facing a training problem; it's everybody. For <a target="_blank" href="https://www.gallup.com/394373/indicator-employee-engagement.aspx">Gallup's employee-engagement indicator</a>, which analyzes employee perspectives using random samples of working adults, less than half of US employees said they knew what's expected of them at work. This is a costly problem, too: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.gallup.com/workplace/393497/world-trillion-workplace-problem.aspx">Gallup</a> found employees who weren't engaged cost $8.8 trillion in lost productivity worldwide.Just figuring out the day-to-day basics of the job is a challenge. The pandemic-driven upheaval of the past several years led to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/great-resignation-still-going-layoffs-low-job-openings-quits-high-2022-11">high amounts of</a> job-hopping, organizational brain drain, and a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/loyalty-employee-employer-job-security-broken-work-companies-bosses-2024-1">decline in loyalty</a> among employers and employees. The chaos has left employers, managers, and employees wondering just how much time and money it's worth investing in training in the first place. The rise of remote and hybrid work has complicated the situation even more. It's tough to learn by osmosis over Slack, and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/hr-software-tech-companies-employees-productivity-workday-oracle-adp-2024-8">the deluge of HR apps and training modules</a> isn't filling in the gaps."Most companies want employees to 'hit the ground running' and use apps, AI, and training videos to avoid disrupting another employee's flow or for the lack of staff to train someone new or help someone learn a new skill," Ana Goehner, a career strategist and HR professional, said.That may work in some instances, but in others, instead of hitting the ground running, workers find themselves perpetually zig-zagging, unable to break into a full sprint.That people feel like they're not equipped to do their jobs isn't a new phenomenon. There's been a long-standing decay of investment in learning and training by employers as part of an effort to create leaner organizations, said Kenneth Matos, the director of market insights at HiBob, an HR-tech company. If you're cutting costs, training is an easy place to do it. That's especially true when many employers use the internet to access a wider talent pool than in the past, which means they can just look for a candidate who already knows everything instead of having to teach someone. And, of course, plenty of companies have been axing middle managers, the people who would have previously been in charge of training up younger or newer employees."You cut away the people who are the link between big strategic ideas and day-to-day tactical activities," Matos said. "And so you end up with a scenario of a big strategic speaker talking to a much more junior doer, and they're like, 'I don't know how this translates into my job.'" Making matters worse, in many workplaces, training and mentoring are treated as an extra, rather than an integral part of the job, if they're noticed at all. In your performance review, "I spent 10 minutes explaining something to the new guy he was too afraid to ask his boss about" doesn't rate very highly. As workers and managers are increasingly overextended, these types of unmeasured, softer activities can fall by the wayside. This creates a conflicting web of incentives. It may be better, organizationally, for a manager or experienced employee to spend time teaching everyone on their team to complete a complex task so that a team's performance is better overall, but if they have an individual quota to meet, they may opt to focus on doing the task themselves, even though it's not what's best for the business."You end up with this really weird tension around organizational citizenship behaviors like mentoring and developing employees," Matos said. "Do you give a manager a lower quota because they are also magnifying everybody else's, or are you assuming they're going to do more than everybody else, are more talented, and also do the mentoring?"The people in the middle — who find themselves in between the big bosses and the little guys — are going to focus more on managing up than managing down. It's hard to tell the CEO that you can't come to that third unnecessary meeting of the day because your time would be better spent training that new hire on logging sales calls."Managers feel so caught up, and oftentimes they feel pressure of, 'OK, well if I'm going to disappoint someone, then it's going to be someone junior to me and not someone senior to me,'" said Ashley Herd, the founder of Manager Method, a training platform for managers.Many managers really are over it. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.gallup.com/workplace/510326/manager-squeeze-new-workplace-testing-team-leaders.aspx">Gallup found</a> that in 2023, managers were likelier than nonmanagers to say they're disengaged at work, burned out, and on the lookout for a new job. Their workers have been given more responsibilities, their teams have been restructured, and they're expected to accomplish everything with fewer resources, as in, money. And less than half of managers said they're sure they already had the skills needed to be great at their jobs, meaning managers weren't getting taught to be managers.At the r/managers forum on Reddit, the what-am-I-doing sentiment is evident. "Is it normal to get zero training as a new manager?" one Redditor <a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/managers/comments/1d6soeu/no_training_in_a_figure_it_out_situation/">asked</a>. "I have reviewed the team's work over the past couple of years, asked them questions to clarify a few things, and asked my boss questions to clarify a few things and have basically picked up most of it. Thought it was kind weird I got zero training, though."Technology is supposed to make training better, in theory. Why have an HR person go over the same PowerPoint on vacation policy for every new hire when a quick video or document stored away somewhere can do it just fine? That may work for simple processes like requesting time off or finding subscription logins, but it can become a problem when companies try to throw technology at their more-in-depth training problems. Nobody knows what they're doing here? Why not get an app to fix that? One of the biggest issues with using tech to solve what's ultimately a human problem is that it's hard to know if anyone is even going to use it. Take mentorship: Having one-on-one coaching from someone with more experience can help workers gain skills and knowledge that can't be found in a training video. It can also make workers likelier to stick around longer, help them feel more connected, and boost the sharing of institutional knowledge. Fostering these kinds of relationships is important, hence why the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.mentorcliq.com/blog/mentoring-impact-report">vast majority of Fortune 500 companies say</a> they have mentoring programs, many of which are facilitated by apps and software. How many people are actually using those programs, however, is unclear. Christy Pettit, the CEO of Pollinate Networks, which creates mentoring software, told me she recently spoke with a large multinational that told her despite having 2,000 licenses for the mentoring program, which was mainly an app, fewer than 200 people were using it and participation was declining every quarter."Most companies say they have a mentoring program, but few have one that works," she said. "It feels a little bit like when you buy a gym membership, and it makes you feel like you're doing something, but you may or may not be going to the gym."In some cases, tech-based training materials are disconnected from the realities of the work. All the training videos are done in an "official" corporate speak it turns out nobody actually uses, Matos, from HiBob, said. Or managers aren't well versed in what their charges are being taught and end up wanting the task done differently.Even when companies invest in training, it can often be directed toward the wrong people. Herd said that businesses often make the mistake of spending a ton of money on fancy retreats and training courses for their most senior leaders without making much, if any, investment in the bottom rungs."You could spend a fraction of that and give good training to all of your employees, and you're probably going to get more ROI if that's what you're focused on," she said.Stephanie Wolf, a vice president at RebuttalPR, a legal-communications firm, said the company learned the hard way about the costs of not investing enough time and energy in training people. As the firm grew, managers wouldn't realize people didn't know how to do timely tasks until they became urgent, or they'd discover employees were doing things in a way that wasn't consistent with the documentation and processes in place. That meant they had to rely more on senior staff to do the work and that projects took longer because training was happening alongside execution. "We've seen how our whole team can suffer when we don't train folks thoroughly enough," she said. To ensure accountability, she's now the point person on training, because the company found that when training was everyone's job, it was no one's. The firm has taken steps to get all the necessary information in one place and to slow the onboarding process down — instead of expecting people to take a week to get up to speed, it now gives them about a month.Wolf acknowledged it's "super easy for training to fall by the wayside when your client work gets busy," which means not allowing that to happen is a conscious effort. "Investing time now is going to save us all time in the long run," she said.It's easy to blame hybrid and remote work for some of these issues, to argue that if people were just gathered in an office together, that would fix things. But many HR professionals and career coaches say that's not necessarily the case. Yes, human interaction is helpful, but it doesn't solve problems like misaligned incentives, increasingly stretched managers, and a lack of a real, holistic plan for getting people up to speed. A remote-work training plan probably has to look different from an in-person one, but it's not impossible to craft. "In a remote environment, you, as the leader, need to model and also hold the individual accountable for taking initiative, saying, 'Hey, if you need something, I need you to tell me because I can't see you,'" Phoebe Gavin, a career and leadership coach, said.Gavin emphasized that it's not just on companies and managers to make sure employees are learning and getting onboarded but also on individual workers. Essentially, if you see something — or don't know something — say something. Ask questions, or take the initiative to figure things out on your own. I told her about an experience I'd had at a job where on my first day, one of four "important" passwords I'd received was for software the company didn't use anymore. I expressed disappointment that the HR department hadn't caught the error, which it took me a long time to figure out even was an error. She pointed out that I should have then gone to HR to alert them to the error so the next new person didn't have the same experience. I did not."That's a tiny place where you could have a positive impact," Gavin said. It wasn't necessarily my fault, she said: "Just that was an opportunity that you didn't take, and those sorts of things happen all the time."But not everyone gets the chance to sound the alarm on their employer's faulty training system before it's too late. That's what happened to Michelle, which is a pseudonym I'm using to protect her privacy. Before starting a job at a science-focused communications firm earlier this year, she was assured that she would get all the training she needed to overcome the fact that she didn't come from a scientific background. When she started, she was surprised by the deluge of training modules and videos that were added to her plate on top of the tasks of the job itself. There were supposed to be meetings with other, more seasoned coworkers after those video training sessions, but eventually, almost everyone stopped showing up. She was fired in a matter of weeks after being told she wasn't picking things up fast enough. She said she received little feedback and hadn't been given warning that things were going wrong."I felt blindsided by the termination just because I didn't think I was given enough time to do all of this," she said. "I was led to believe they would kind of hold my hand a little bit at the beginning, and a month in, to me, is very much still the beginning."You know how there are certain tasks in life that feel designed to be so complex that you'll give up? Like filing an insurance claim or <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/cancel-subscriptions-congress-ftc-dark-practices-autorenewal-2023-2">quitting the gym</a>. Work should not be like that, but for many people, it is.Employees have complained about just being thrown into the fire forever. Many employers subscribe to the idea that you just toss people into the water and see who can swim. Trial by error is part of learning at work — one of the best ways to learn how to do something is to just try doing it. But it shouldn't be the entire approach. You know how you learn at school? The teacher explains something, you do your homework, it gets graded, you take a test, and you move on once you more or less figure it out. Imagine if teachers just piled 15 algebra tests on high-school students and everyone hoped for the best.There are aspects of the current workplace environment that make training more complicated to tackle. Remote work is different — you can't just lean over and ask the person next to you how this one software works again when you're typing on your laptop alone from your couch. Workers and employers don't feel as tied to one another, so there may be a decline in investment from both sides in the idea of getting supergood at the task at hand. The <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/remote-workers-middle-managers-most-affected-by-layoffs-experts-2024-2">middle-management class</a> is increasingly stretched thin and hollowed out.Above all, it's really easy to load up on a bunch of tech-based solutions without identifying whether they actually solve anything. Relying on tech is appealing financially because buying a software license is a heck of a lot cheaper than paying a real live person. Many of the HR experts I talked to for this story suggested the training gap was a problem artificial intelligence might fix, a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/generative-ai-exaggeration-openai-nvidia-microsoft-chatgpt-jobs-investors-markets-2024-3">common refrain for intractable problems</a>, no matter the industry. Maybe that's true — if your manager won't have a one-on-one with you, having a chatbot to ask questions to isn't the worst thing in the world (assuming said chatbot knows stuff and doesn't make things up). But AI isn't going to be a panacea here. When you need to speak to a real person, no Coursera video or HR app or robot can do the trick. People make human mistakes, and sometimes humans need to address them.Wolf's firm is fully remote, but managers have noticed that Gen Z hires, in particular, tend to inquire about an in-person component for training. So they've adjusted. For a couple of incoming hires, they've rented a coworking space and enlisted some other employees to work alongside them for a couple of days to help them learn the ropes.<a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/author/emily-stewart">Emily Stewart</a> is a senior correspondent at Business Insider, writing about business and the economy.

On-the-job training is broken. Companies are paying a steep price.

Venture into any commercial gym during peak hours, and you'll likely see the same thing.Row after row of empty treadmills, stair climbers, and elliptical trainers. Meanwhile, crowds of people are swamped around the squat racks, benches, and free weights, waiting to pounce on the first free piece of equipment.Long cardio sessions are a thing of the past. Now, everyone and their mother (<a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/professor-exercise-aging-workout-food-longevity-karyn-esser-2024-5">literally</a>) is into squats. And deadlifts. And hip thrusts. And a multitude of other strength-building moves, especially ones that help sculpt a powerful lower body.Data from the Sports and Fitness Industry Association, the major trade association for sports equipment manufacturers and fitness brands, illuminates this trend. Since 2019, gym-goers have been ditching the ellipticals and stair climbers, reaching instead for kettlebells and free weights.There's just one problem: most commercial gyms are not equipped for this shift in consumer preferences. They're becoming a graveyard for bulky, old cardio machines with dated plugs and grainy televisions.Gym owners are aware. "Trust me, our members will come up to us and tell us exactly how they feel," Mauro Maietta, district fitness manager at Crunch Fitness in Manhattan, told Business Insider. "We have some locations where they're like, okay, what's with the 40 treadmills? We need more benches."But, it turns out, remodeling a gym is not simple. The process is slow, expensive, and complicated. It's often easier to swap out an old elliptical for some new cardio machine, even if that's not what people want.<h2>Cardio created the gym industry</h2>Prior to the 1960s, fitness trends didn't really exist. Gyms were for children. Kids played sports, ran track and field, and did Presidential Fitness Tests at school, but adults didn't have time for such childish games. That all changed when <a target="_blank" href="https://health.usnews.com/health-news/blogs/eat-run/articles/the-evolution-of-fitness-trends">Kenneth Cooper coined the term "aerobics"</a> — a type of high-energy exercise that he said would reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease. Or, for short: cardio.Suddenly, exercise wasn't just a fun activity. A new idea was taking hold, that jumping, running, jazzercizing, and other forms of bouncing around are important for your heart and your waistline. This cultural shift created a demand for places to work out. It created the gym industry, and cardio was the driving force. Sure, there was muscle beach in L.A., which had been around since the 1930s, but that turf was largely reserved for the ultra-shredded Arnold Schwarzeneggers of the world who wanted to look a certain way.The problem with the cardio-centric gym was that it stemmed from a half-baked understanding of fitness. Cardio certainly plays a role in heart health and longevity, but it's not the whole story.<div type="image" title="Richard Simmons working out with people behind him" height="1515" width="2300" msid="113347793" hostid="261" sizebytes="262642"></div>The past couple of decades have seen a boom in science showing that resistance training has a wealth of benefits, beyond looking big and strong. Lifting weights can <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/improve-mobility-build-muscle-longevity-exercise-personal-trainer-2023-11">help you feel younger</a> for longer, delay chronic illness, boost bone health, and reduce pain. It may even improve your self-image. Weight-lifting isn't even necessarily about <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/guides/health/fitness/weight-lifting-myths-for-women">getting big</a> – it can actually help you stay lean and toned. In fact, studies show <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/strength-training-better-cardio-burning-fat-2023-10">strength training beats cardio, when it comes to fat burning</a>."What the evidence is showing is that building muscle through strength training, as opposed to using cardio to manage weight, has a much greater effect on promoting longevity," the "Smarter Workouts" author and fitness industry consultant Pete McCall told Business Insider.But, while scientists and trainers have known this for a long time, it has taken a while to catch on more broadly. Before the pandemic, studio classes, like spin, were booming. From 2018 to 2019, gym-goers were hungry for cycling, stair climbing, and rowing, according to data from the Health &amp; Fitness Association, the trade group representing gyms, studios, and the fitness industry at large in the US.COVID triggered a sharp pivot.<h2>The boom of strength training in 2020</h2><div type="image" title="Kayla Itsines Profile Rooftop copy" height="2599" width="3997" msid="113347789" hostid="261" sizebytes="131914"></div>In the early months of 2020, people working out at home turned to social media influencers and personal trainers, many of whom extolled the benefits of resistance training. By June, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/weights-dumbbells-not-in-stock-online-many-retailers-gyms-closed-2020-6">Amazon had run out of barbells</a> and dumbbells.Fitness influencers had been driving an interest in strength training since the dawn of Instagram in the mid-2010s, but it was a niche trend.In 2020, suddenly, influencers like Kayla Itsines, Kira Stokes, and Kaisa Keranen were <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fitness-influencer-industry-pandemic-quarantine-boom-2020-5">amassing millions more followers around the world</a>. Fans, pent up in their living rooms, navigating the unclear perils of a new pandemic, wanted to feel strong and look good."Women used to have this misconception that if they did strength training, they'd become too muscular," Pamela Kufahl, senior director of communications at Health &amp; Fitness, told Business Insider. But consumers are getting savvier. Kufahl says from Gen Z to elders, there's been a real and growing recognition of the importance of strength training for longevity and even mental health.Since gyms reopened, members are spending more time muscle-building and less time on cardio machines, the Health &amp; Fitness data shows. People — in particular, women — are investing more of their gym dollars into personal training sessions.Demand for unique, personalized fitness has upended the point of the gym.These days, people aren't going to the gym for solo elliptical sessions, they're joining <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/run-club-making-friends-dating-app-alternatives-2024-7">run clubs</a> to work up a sweat (and maybe even find love). <a target="_blank" href="https://athletechnews.com/boutique-fitness-personal-training-gen-z-millennials-report/">Boutique group fitness classes</a>, like Pure Barre and Orange Theory, are proliferating, and membership is growing at boot camps like CrossFit. Pilates — low-impact resistance training that touts strength and longevity — is soaring in popularity, per <a target="_blank" href="https://insider.fitt.co/issue-no-300-powerhouse/">Fitt Insider analysis</a>.If you've been in any large gym, you don't need to pore over industry reports or financial filings to tell you all this is true. These days, cardio is just one part of fitness. Treadmills, while still the most popular, least intimidating piece of equipment in the gym overall, might be used for a warmup or cooldown, not the entire workout.<div type="image" title="soccer players training at gym" height="683" width="1024" msid="113347778" hostid="261" sizebytes="55850"></div>McCall, who is a consultant for the cardio icon StairMaster, says this trend is only just getting started. "You're going to see a lot more interest in the next few years in strength training from all age groups," McCall told BI. "The 20-somethings, the 40-somethings, the 60-somethings will all be gravitating towards strength training, just because of the benefits it provides."<h2>A conundrum for gyms</h2>This sharp shift requires some adjustment for gym owners. In most gyms, the weight section is one small corner of their floor plan, and it is becoming increasingly crowded."Suddenly, now they need more plate-loaded equipment, they need to find space for that," Kufahl said. "Strength equipment takes up a lot of space, they need to be bolted in. To move strength equipment around is a big task for a lot of gym operators and it requires some planning, it requires determining what to do with the flooring."<div type="image" title="Olympic-level runner Eilish McColgan training on squat rack at home" height="737" width="1024" msid="113347801" hostid="261" sizebytes="49102"></div>To fully outfit a 1,300-2,800-square-foot gym for strength-training, you need dumbbells, kettlebells, barbells, medicine balls, three to four racks, and flooring that can withstand heavy weights. That takes around $60-75,000, Chris Travis, owner and coach at Seattle Strength and Performance, said.Often, it's a higher initial cost for gyms to buy that strength equipment, because it's designed to last a lot longer than treadmills, ellipticals, or stair climbers, which might be on a multi-year lease, and have lots of electronics on board.Businesses can't bend to every new trend, but consultants say it's time to do this remodeling job.Since COVID, gyms have struggled to keep their members. Last month, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.press.blinkfitness.com/blink-fitness-takes-action-to-position-business-for-future">Blink Fitness</a>, one of the cheaper, most basically-equipped gyms in the New York City area filed for bankruptcy, signaling a realization that many before- and after-work gym crowds just aren't coming back. But Blink's parent company Equinox, a luxury brand with plenty of space for personal trainers and kettlebell racks, plus one elite <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/equinox-40000-membership-optimize-longevity-health-years-2024-5">$40,000 membership tier</a> for longevity-seekers, is still in <a target="_blank" href="https://insider.fitt.co/equinox-lands-1-8b-plots-expansion/#:~:text=By%202022%2C%20CEO%20Harvey%20Spevak,domestic%20and%20international%20growth%20opportunities.">expansion mode</a>.<div type="image" title="empty ellipticals" height="683" width="1024" msid="113347806" hostid="261" sizebytes="82978"></div>Crunch gyms have spent the last few years investing in more lifting platforms and clearing space for strength training, Maietta, the Crunch district manager, said. Recent renovations around the country have included more than $200,000 worth of new equipment, which buys new dumbbell racks, plate-loaded strength equipment, and Olympic lifting platforms, according to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.prweb.com/releases/crunch-johns-creek-unveils-grand-reopening-after-500-000-renovation-302046030.html">press releases</a>. Other priorities include more open-plan turf areas for functional strength training with weights like kettlebells, Crunch CEO Jim Rowley told <a target="_blank" href="https://athletechnews.com/crunch-fitness-new-era-of-fitness/">Athletech News</a> in January.It doesn't have to be a shot in the dark, either. Gyms have access to all of the data stored on their treadmills showing exactly how often people are using them."I can go and use a code on an elliptical or I can use a code on a stair climber and get an idea of how many hours it's been used over the last month, three months, six months, whatever it is," McCall said. Gym managers can use that data to determine how they might want to remodel their space — and some do. "Some health clubs are building new locations without cycling studios, I mean, that's how much that group fitness is being affected," McCall said.<h2>A new demand for specialized muscle gyms</h2><div type="image" title="man with barbell" height="1414" width="2121" msid="113347796" hostid="261" sizebytes="127058"></div>Gym-goers are increasingly seeking out more specialized spaces, and not just for spin class.When JDI Barbell, a strength-focused gym in Manhattan, opened in 2016, it was a small operation, popular with seasoned gym-goers looking to step up their game. It started out as one of a few exercise spaces dedicated to powerlifting, strongman exercises, and Olympic-style weightlifting.Lately, business is booming even more."It's one of the biggest reasons we get people coming in: 50% or more of members come to us after leaving a commercial gym because they're looking for something more," Priscilla Del Moral, JDI's co-owner and manager, told Business Insider.Miriam Fried, a New York City-based personal trainer and founder of MF Strong, said she's seen the same trend at her gym: clients wanting more strength-focused workouts after tiring of the cardio-heavy fitness classes at bigger gyms.The issue has helped fuel a resurgence of small gyms, which can focus on catering to a more individualized experience than their big-box counterparts."You can have a million different types of machines, but if you're missing the 'it' factor that makes people feel welcome and supported, they may not want to keep coming," Del Moral, who founded a nonprofit called <a target="_blank" href="https://www.strongurlsclub.org/">The Strong Gurls Club</a>, told BI<h2>Is this the death of the elliptical?</h2>This doesn't mean cardio is out. But it's being forced into a bit of a makeover."We now know that strength training is really good for you and that's here to stay, but we know you still need to go for walks and get your heart rate up," Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, professor of history at the New School and author of "Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America's Exercise Obsession," told Business Insider. "The treadmill is not disappearing."Brands that manufacture cardio equipment are looking at tweaks they can make. StairMaster's parent company, Core Health &amp; Fitness, has been building out its fleet of machines, acquiring Jacob's Ladder, offering a new self-powered treadmill, and developing more assault-style bikes. They're branding themselves as more of a high-intensity training equipment provider than just a stair-climbing apparatus provider these days.<div type="image" title="assault bike" height="1414" width="2121" msid="113347786" hostid="261" sizebytes="183624"></div>Increasing enthusiasm for strength-training and longevity is also a boon for the fitness industry – potentially keeping people in the gym for way more years than they might have been capable of before. Strength training is ideal for extending your "play span," your ability to keep doing what you love as you age. Maietta, the Crunch manager in New York, said he (41) is still showing up athletes who are years younger than him. He credits that to his lifting."What strength training really affords people is to make age just feel like a number," he said.

Gyms are scrambling to add squat racks for the strength-training renaissance

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Photobucket was popular in the early days of the social internet. You might still have an account.</li><li>Its CEO told BI that Photobucket could soon license photos stored on its service to train AI.</li></ul>Photobucket, the photo-storage site once owned by <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/former-myspace-ceo-explains-why-facebook-was-able-to-dominate-social-media-despite-coming-second-2015-5">Myspace</a>, is planning to license user photos to AI companies, which would use the images to train their datasets.CEO Ted Leonard said photos marked "private" would not be licensed. In an interview with Business Insider, he said no images have been <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-goodbye-meta-ai-train-generative-post-copypasta-profile-2024-9">used for AI training</a> so far, but ones set to "public" would be part of any potential licensing deals.If you have an old Photobucket account you haven't touched in a while, you'll need to reactivate it to opt out of any licensing deals by setting your account to "private." A <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://support.photobucket.com/hc/en-us/articles/360061000711-Photobucket-Subscription-and-Storage-Options">paid account</a> starts at $5 a month. (You can delete your entire account for free — but you won't be able to view or download any old photos before you do.)Founded in 2003, Photobucket became a popular way to store the images you'd post on your friends' <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/napster-myspace-where-are-they-now-2016-7">Myspace walls</a>. After a brief stint owned by News Corp, it's been operating independently since 2009. Leonard, CEO since 2017, spoke to Business Insider about Photobucket's latest plans, which include new features, such as a private sharing plan called Group Buckets, which allows groups like a wedding party, kids' soccer team, or a family to post and share photos securely among themselves.Photobucket, now privately owned and based in Denver, didn't share details about its revenue or other financials. Leonard said he's optimistic about AI."I view licensing content specifically for AI training as similar to the advertising revenue the <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://techcrunch.com/2015/03/06/photobucket-3-6-million-for-printing-and-acquisitions/?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAACFg7K50dJai3qtI9N31dmGdIR9OzJdR_ze8RaFBJQZIDbKx3pzW6rR4QzHod_DUkqeJ8l3M8yncchQx4nQ-Is3LjrpBZRxhXZHp3KD9F-IxDBPIPopztnrFmoQ8WEuX2nUirMJbDIyWl46gGgYnQvDDP0hLgQWceiWUKW_h50Be">company</a> generated 10 years ago," Leonard said. "It is a vehicle for continuing to support the company from a financial perspective, and it gives us capital at what we think will be fairly significant in material margins to continue investing in the product itself."<h2 id="c0e4cc90-0466-4f8b-979a-04f384e006d9">Sitting on a possible AI-training goldmine</h2>Unlike other mid-2000s photo-hosting peers like <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/flickr-photos-kids-train-ai-facial-recognition-database-megaface-report-2019-10">Flickr</a> or Webshots, Photobucket hasn't deleted people's old photos. (<a target="_blank" class="" href="https://x.com/textfiles/status/1204428338913325056">Webshots</a> shut down in 2012. <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/flickr-new-owner-smugmug-remain-independent-2018-4">Flickr moved to a paid subscription</a> model in 2019 and only kept the first 1,000 images on non-paying users' accounts.)Those old images that Photobucket has been storing for all these years — things people uploaded in 2005 and forgot about — are still there. And now they may provide a windfall for Photobucket, which can make licensing deals with AI companies to train their models on those images and videos. Leonard didn't share details on how much revenue the AI training deals might bring.If those deals are inked, Photobucket would follow in the footsteps of other media and content companies that see <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-publishers-deal-explainer-peter-kafka-2024-6">AI licensing deals as a good financial opportunity</a>.<div type="image" title="Ted Leonard CEO of photobucket in a blue shirt sitting down" height="1462" width="1949" msid="114265014" hostid="261" sizebytes="223414"></div><h2 id="c4bba153-d2b7-4688-b65c-5b1a7dc6d4ec">Photobucket isn't the only company using your photos for AI training</h2>If the idea of stuff you posted to the internet long ago now being used for AI training gives you the ick, well, <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-killing-web-grand-bargain-2023-8">I have some bad news for you</a>.<a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/12/24242789/meta-training-ai-models-facebook-instagram-photo-post-data">Meta recently said</a> that it used public Facebook photos and posts to train its own AI models. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/flickr-photos-kids-train-ai-facial-recognition-database-megaface-report-2019-10">Flickr photos were already used for facial recognition</a> training starting in 2014 when Yahoo owned it. <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/06/technology/tech-giants-harvest-data-artificial-intelligence.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;sgrp=c-cb">OpenAI has reportedly used YouTube content</a> for training.Oodles of other websites and content have been used for AI training as part of the open-source dataset called the "<a target="_blank" class="" href="https://commoncrawl.org/">Common Crawl.</a>" This could have already included Photobucket images hosted on other sites.Leonard said Photobucket is in talks with several companies to license the images. Rather than a one-shot deal where, say, OpenAI gets images to use forever, the potential deals are generally for a few years and for specific content."A company will come to us and say, 'We need content of landscapes with people in a distance, and we're looking for beach and mountains,'" Leonard explained. "So we say, 'OK, great. Based on that request, we have 150,000 images that we can license you.'"Photobucket estimates about half of its 13 billion images are public and eligible for AI licensing.<h2 id="b1ca6dbf-d446-4b92-9ca0-9dc53af83ed5">Notifying users about the new Terms of Service</h2>Leonard said Photobucket sent an email in July to its customers alerting them to an update to its <a target="_blank" href="https://photobucket.com/legal/biometric-information-privacy-policy">Terms of Service</a>. The update outlined how public images may be used for AI training, including "scanning and processing of the Public User Uploaded Content, including extracting physical features, e.g. measurements, of your Biometric Information (e.g., face, iris, etc.), for the purpose of artificial intelligence and machine learning training."I have an old Photobucket account from around 2007 that I used for hosting images for an old blog. For the past few years, I've gotten emails with increasingly dire warnings that my account was at risk of being deactivated. (It hasn't been.) At some point years ago, I had already downloaded the images and stored them elsewhere, so I wasn't too concerned. (I do continue to pay $10 a month for my old personal photos on <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/this-quote-perfectly-sums-up-how-yahoo-is-killing-everything-it-buys-2014-8">Flickr</a>.)Presumably, there are plenty of people like me with an old Photobucket account, largely forgotten — maybe abandoned because we moved the photos somewhere else or simply didn't care. And then there's another group of people who aren't even getting these emails: Maybe they signed up with a student email that they can't access anymore, or maybe they long ago forgot their username and password combination.Leonard said Photobucket has been attempting to reach customers through email, on-site alerts, and other methods (including alerting users in the press, like in this story).I did receive the email from Photobucket alerting me about the new policy, but like most other emails about updated Terms of Service, I simply didn't bother opening it."There's kind of a two-way street where if you put a whole bunch of personal memories on the site, maybe you should do your best to continue to update the email address and everything like that," Leonard said.

That old Photobucket account you haven't touched in years could soon be licensed to train AI

New Delhi [India], July 29 (ANI): Following <keyword id="20241095" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="Manu-Bhaker" source="keywords">Manu Bhaker</keyword>'s historic <keyword id="20257145" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="bronze-medal" source="keywords">bronze medal</keyword> in the ongoing <keyword id="20006192" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Paris-Olympics" source="keywords">Paris Olympics</keyword> 2024, <keyword id="22535733" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Union-Sports-Minister" source="keywords">Union Sports Minister</keyword> <keyword id="2607815" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Mansukh-Mandaviya" source="Orion">Mansukh Mandaviya</keyword> congratulated the shooter on her win and revealed the hard work and expenditure that went behind her training. Bhaker finished third to secure a bronze medal in the final of the Women's Air Pistol event on Sunday. She became the first Indian woman to win a medal in shooting at the Olympics. Following her win, Mandaviya told ANI, "By winning the first bronze medal in the Paris Olympics, Manu Bhaker has made India proud. In her interaction, she said that she has been a part of '<keyword id="20305504" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Khelo-India" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="Khelo India" meta.hostid="153" meta.entityid="Khelo India">Khelo India</keyword>'. I am delighted to tell you that PM Modi started 'Khelo India' and under this initiative, sports infrastructure was set up in the country, sports competition was increased, and projects were floated to identify sports talent at school and college levels. Good coaches were hired to train the talents identified, they were provided good training and under the TOPS scheme, arrangements were made to ensure that they did not face any financial constraints." Mandaviya revealed that around Rs two crores were spent on Manu's training and she was sent to Germany and Switzerland for it. He also expressed confidence that other athletes will also do well in the Olympics. "Around Rs 2 crore was spent on Manu Bhaker's training. She was sent to Germany and Switzerland for training. Financial help was provided which was needed for her to hire a coach who she wanted. We are providing this ecosystem to all athletes so that they give best performance at national and international competitions. I am confident that our athletes will perform well in Paris Olympics too," he added. On the shooting and archery competitions taking place today, Manaviya added, "Shooting and Archery competitions are taking place today. We should encourage our athletes with <keyword id="22586685" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="CheerForBharat" source="Orion">#CheerForBharat</keyword> on social media and encourage them. We expect our athletes to perform well." Bhaker will once again be in action during the 10 m air pistol mixed team competition qualification rounds along with Sarabjot Singh from 12:45 PM onwards. Indian shooters Ramita Jindal and Arjun Babuta, along with the men's archery team, will aim to add to the country's medal count at the ongoing Paris Olympics 2024 on Monday. On Sunday, Ramita made it to the final of the women's 10 m air rifle event after a fifth-place finish during the qualification round, while Arjun came at seventh in the men's event. The top eight players from both the qualification rounds made it to the finals, which are scheduled for today, as per Olympics.com. Also, the men's archery team of Dhiraj Bommadevara, Tarundeep Rai and Pravin Jadhav will be taking on Turkiye or Colombia in the quarterfinals at 6:31 PM. The medal rounds of this category will take place today itself. Bhaker brought India's first medal in the ongoing mega event as she won a bronze medal with a score of 221.7. It was a redemption arc for Manu after her pistol malfunctioned at the Tokyo Olympics. She made history by becoming the first Indian woman in 20 years to reach a shooting final in an individual event of the Olympics since Suma Shirur in 2004. South Korea's Ye Jin clinched the gold medal with an Olympic record of 243.2 points. Her compatriot, Kim Yeji, settled for silver with 241.3 points.

Govt spent two crores on training Manu Bhaker, says Sports Minister Mandaviya after her Olympic bronze win

The <keyword id="20396851" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="Paralympics" source="keywords">Paralympics</keyword> and the <keyword id="19933819" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Olympics" source="keywords">Olympics</keyword> are two of the world's most prestigious sporting events, but the way <keyword id="19929069" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="athletes" source="keywords">athletes</keyword> are categorised and trained for these <keyword id="20798971" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="competitions" source="keywords">competitions</keyword> differs significantly. These differences arise from the need to accommodate the diverse abilities of Paralympic athletes while ensuring fair competition. <h2>Categorisation of athletes</h2>In the Olympics, athletes are typically categorised by age, gender, and weight (in sports like boxing and weightlifting). In contrast, the Paralympics use a complex <keyword id="20675823" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="classification-system" source="keywords">classification system</keyword> that groups athletes based on the type and severity of their impairments. This system ensures that competition is fair, meaning athletes with similar levels of function compete against each other. The Paralympic classification process involves three main steps: <ol><li>Eligibility: Athletes must have one of ten eligible impairments, such as impaired muscle power, limb deficiency, visual impairment or a learning disability.</li><li>Minimum Impairment Criteria: Each sport has specific criteria to ensure athletes have a significant impairment that impacts their ability to compete. This can include factors such as the maximum height for athletes with a short stature.</li><li>Sport Class Allocation: Based on the <keyword id="22974970" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="athletes-impairment" source="keywords">athlete's impairment</keyword> and how it affects their performance in the sport, they are placed in a specific sport class. For example, para-athletics has categories ranging from T11 for visually impaired athletes to T64 for those with lower limb impairments who use prosthetics.</li></ol> <div type="Article" hostid="261" msid="112893547" title="Paris Paralympics: Nitish-Thulasimathi duo makes winning start in badminton mixed doubles" mstype="2" mssubtype="0"></div><h2>What do these prefixes mean?</h2>In the Paralympics, the classification system uses specific prefixes that help identify the type of sport and the nature of the athlete's impairment. These prefixes are essential for categorising athletes fairly and ensuring that they compete against others with similar levels of function. Here’s a breakdown of the most common prefixes used: <h4 style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:2pt;">1. T and F Prefixes: Track and Field Events</h4><ul><li>T (Track): This prefix is used for athletes competing in track events, such as running or wheelchair racing. For instance, T11 refers to a visually impaired runner, while T54 refers to a wheelchair athlete with spinal cord injuries but good upper body function.</li><li>F (Field): This prefix is designated for field events like shot put, javelin, or long jump. F40, for example, refers to athletes with short stature competing in field events, while F57 indicates athletes who have impairments in their lower limbs and compete in seated throwing events.</li></ul><h4 style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:2pt;">2. S Prefix: Swimming Events</h4><ul><li>S (Swimming): In swimming, the S prefix is used to denote classifications based on physical, visual, or intellectual impairments. For example, S1 is for swimmers with severe physical impairments, such as those with significant limb deficiencies, while S14 is for athletes with intellectual impairments.</li></ul><h4 style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:2pt;">3. C, H, and B Prefixes: Cycling Events</h4><ul><li>C (Cycling): The C prefix is used for athletes with physical impairments who ride standard or adapted bicycles. C1 to C5 classifications are based on the degree of impairment, with C1 representing the most significant impairment.</li><li>H (Handcycling): Athletes who use handcycles, typically due to lower limb impairments, are classified under the H prefix, such as H1 for those with more severe impairments.</li><li>B (Blind): The B prefix is for visually impaired cyclists who compete on tandem bikes with a sighted pilot.</li></ul>The use of prefixes in Paralympic classifications plays a crucial role in maintaining the integrity and fairness of the competition. By clearly identifying the type of sport and the nature of the athlete's impairment, these prefixes help ensure that all athletes compete on a level playing field, allowing their skills, <keyword id="19924382" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="training" source="keywords">training</keyword>, and determination to be the deciding factors in their performance. <div type="Article" hostid="261" msid="112891735" title="India&amp;#39;s Schedule At Paris Paralympics 2024, August 29" mstype="2" mssubtype="0"></div><h2>How is Paralympic training different?</h2>Training for Olympic athletes generally focuses on maximising physical potential, refining technique, and building mental resilience. The training approach is often uniform within a sport, though tailored to individual needs. Paralympic training, however, requires additional considerations, such as: <ul><li>Adaptation to Equipment: Many Paralympic athletes rely on specialised equipment like prosthetics, wheelchairs, or adapted bicycles. Training programs must include time to adapt to and optimise the use of these devices. For example, a para-cyclist using a handbike (H category) must develop upper body strength differently from a cyclist using a standard bike.</li><li>Customised Techniques: Athletes with similar impairments may still require highly personalised training techniques. A para-rower with a PR2 classification (who can use their upper body but not their legs) will train differently from a PR3 rower who has full use of their body.</li><li>Mental Preparation: Training often includes psychological preparation tailored to cope with the unique challenges faced by athletes with disabilities. This includes dealing with societal perceptions, managing expectations, and overcoming personal barriers related to their impairments.</li></ul><h2><keyword id="22974971" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="competition-structure" source="keywords">Competition structure</keyword></h2>Olympic events usually have straightforward heats, semifinals, and finals. In the Paralympics, the competition structure is more complex due to the various classifications. For example, in para-athletics, the men’s 100 metres can have multiple gold medals because different classifications (T11, T12, etc.) run separately. Additionally, some events, like the 4x100m universal relay, feature mixed classifications, where each team includes athletes with different impairments. While the Olympic and Paralympic Games share the spotlight on the global stage, the processes of categorisation and training in the Paralympics are uniquely designed to cater to the diverse abilities of its athletes. This ensures that the spirit of fair competition is upheld, allowing athletes to showcase their talents in a way that is both equitable and inspiring.

How are the sport categories and training different for the Paralympics compared to the Olympics?

<ul class="summary-list"><li>TikTok just hosted its first summit for its US e-commerce partners.</li><li>The company spent much of the event pushing TikTok Shop partners to test out live selling.</li></ul>TikTok is gearing up for the holiday season on its e-commerce platform <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-sell-on-tiktok-shop">TikTok Shop.</a>A couple of weeks ago, around the first anniversary of the product's US launch, <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-is-betting-its-future-on-e-commerce-should-it-2024-7">TikTok</a> gathered roughly 300 Shop partners across 200 agencies in a hotel near its Culver City office for its first invite-only partner summit.The group attended panels, participated in feedback sessions with <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-bytedance-salaries-jobs-careers-data-product-engineering">TikTok staffers</a>, and shared ideas on influencer affiliate marketing and paid and earned media tactics. But live selling was the clear focus of the event, five partners who attended told Business Insider. Across sessions, TikTok staffers and agency partners talked about how to find studio space for livestreams, as well as what was needed to build up a live selling operation."Probably 60% to 70% of the discussion was around livestream," said Jake Bjorseth, founder of the marketing firm Trndsttrs, who attended the summit.A second partner who attended the event described its content as "live, live, live." This person, as well as several others, were granted anonymity to protect their business relationships with TikTok. Their identities are known to BI.Why was TikTok so focused on <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-shopping-livestream-career-change-income-essay-2023-12">livestreams</a> at its first US Shop partner summit?Well, for one, TikTok has had a string of blockbuster live-selling events in the US and UK this year, during which companies like beauty brand P.Louise and Stormi Steele's Canvas Beauty sold more than $1 million in goods in a single stream, according to TikTok.The invite list for the summit may have also played a role in focusing the discussion around live selling. Several of the attendees were partners who had expertise selling on TikTok's China-based sister app Douyin, which generates <a target="_blank" href="https://affiliate.insider.com?h=e54b484532789f314b635c6d0830451432638ce3089beed16d5b0b23d8dfe87c&amp;postID=66fd4dc9d8616474985bae44&amp;postSlug=tiktok-shop-us-partner-summit-live-shopping-and-douyin-ruled-2024-10&amp;site=bi&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theinformation.com%2Farticles%2Ftiktok-parent-bytedances-e-commerce-volume-surged-in-2022-internal-data-show">hundreds of billions</a> in sales each year, primarily through influencer livestreams. These partners offered advice on what's worked well for social shopping in Asia, and discussed potential cross-border partnership opportunities, three Shop partners in attendance told BI.A TikTok spokesperson declined to comment for this story.<h2 id="edfdcf23-8819-4c48-80e0-5a19879826a2">What works on Douyin won't necessarily take off on TikTok Shop</h2>Strategies that are successful on Douyin often <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/whats-next-for-tiktok-look-at-china-douyin-2022-1">end up on TikTok next</a>, and the two companies, which operate independently under parent company ByteDance, have been sharing ideas a lot lately.Last month, Douyin and ByteDance invited TikTok Shop partners to visit the Chinese cities Shanghai and Hangzhou to meet regional social-commerce partners and see the studios they use to film shopping content. Digital ad firm adQuadrant was among a handful of companies selected for the visit, according to its CEO Warren Jolly, who spoke at TikTok's US partner summit.Of course, live-selling tactics on Douyin won't necessarily translate well to TikTok in the US. Social shopping has been sluggish to take off in North America compared to Asia, as <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/startups-bringing-social-shopping-into-mainstream-in-the-us-2023-11">bringing consumer shopping behaviors</a> across borders can be difficult."If you've lived in China, you're Chinese origin, you've built this business over the last seven years focused on live shopping and social commerce," Jolly said. But that expertise selling in China may not help US sellers facing a much different e-commerce reality, he added. "Yes, live shopping is important. We understand that it's going to become pervasive in the Western world and the US market. But it's not going to be at the same modality of what's happening in China."Other TikTok Shop partners who spoke with BI agreed that the emphasis on livestreams and comparisons to the Asian market at the event weren't particularly useful when a lot of their TikTok Shop sales currently come from influencer videos rather than livestreams."I can tell you that we walked out of that [summit] and said, 'Oh, that's a cool opportunity in livestream,' but the actual financials don't make sense for most agencies," Bjorseth said.TikTok's ability to replicate Douyin's live-shopping success in the US may be tough, even as the company has been gaining on its e-commerce competitors in <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-sell-on-tiktok-shop">sales and repeat purchases</a> in recent months. E-commerce in the US is dominated by non-social-media players like <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/top-selling-products-during-prime-day-for-amazon-influencers-2023-7">Amazon</a> and Walmart, both of which work with influencers on livestreams or affiliate programs but predominantly drive sales through other means.Still, there are some signs that livestream shopping is on the rise outside of Asia. Whatnot, a live-shopping platform in North America and Europe, said in an October report that it's crossed $2 billion in gross merchandise volume from livestream sales conducted in 2024.Ultimately, TikTok's e-commerce momentum may be abruptly cut short, however. A US divest-or-ban law passed in April could force a sale or ban of TikTok's app in the US. TikTok is currently <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-justice-department-federal-appeals-court-law-ban-expert-2024-9">challenging the law</a> in court. Several attendees said the prospect of a ban wasn't brought up at the company's TikTok Shop partner summit.

TikTok is training its e-commerce partners on what's worked in China as it doubles down on live selling

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Ukraine needs more trained pilots to effectively build a reliable F-16 fighter fleet.</li><li>Training more pilots gives Ukraine options, but bottlenecks hinder the program.</li></ul>Ukraine desperately needs more trained pilots to effectively build a formidable F-16 fighter fleet, air warfare experts told Business Insider.Training bottlenecks among Ukraine's international partners risk leaving the country with more jets than trained pilots, and with a limited number of pilots in training, there's no choice, no opportunity to find the best. There's no room for error should one struggle to overcome the challenges of<a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-f-16-pilots-had-to-dramatically-change-way-fly-2024-10"> flying a fighter very different from the Soviet-designed jets</a> Ukraine knows best.Michael Bohnert, a RAND Corporation analyst, said that integrating F-16s, or any new type of jet, into an air force "takes a lot of effort, time, training, and money that often gets overlooked. A lot of people think: 'Oh, just give them the hardware and everything's okay.' Well, no." The hardware really is only part of what it takes to build a fighter fleet.Retired US Army Maj. Gen. Gordon 'Skip' Davis, who served as NATO's deputy assistant secretary-general for its Defense Investment Division, said that for Ukraine's F-16 program, told BI "the big issue is really the number of trained Ukrainian pilots."<h2 id="6dbaee8a-2faf-4465-840f-ec43eb49112c">Training bottleneck</h2>F-16 training for Ukraine's pilots is being done by a coalition of countries, including the Netherlands, Canada, Denmark, the US, and Romania. The process, however, doesn't appear to be as smooth as it probably could be.Bohnert said that "there have been concerns around all of the different bottlenecks that we're seeing, including the training spaces and things like that, where even if more F-16s had been committed to Ukraine at this point, that doesn't necessarily mean that it could have more of them in the air."Norway, Belgium, and the Netherlands, Denmark have <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://www.thedefensepost.com/2023/12/22/dutch-delivery-f16-ukraine/">pledged more than 85 F-16 jets to Kyiv</a>, but Ukraine can only field as many jets as the country has trained pilots.<div type="image" title="Two F-16 fighter jets flying side-by-side against blue skies." height="1201" width="1801" msid="114149820" hostid="261" sizebytes="41698"></div>The total number of trained Ukrainian pilots and those still undergoing training is not officially known, but there are indications that the number is not enough for Ukraine's needs.Politico <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/05/ukraine-f-16-pilot-training-00161742">reported</a> in June that Ukraine's Western partners did not have the number of training spaces that Ukraine wanted for its pilots. It reported that 30 Ukrainian pilots were ready for training, but the US training program could not accept them all.The report said that a total of 20 Ukrainian F-16 pilots were expected to graduate by the end of this year — half of what a former US defense official said Ukraine would need to operate a full squadron of jets.A Ukrainian lawmaker <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.thetimes.com/world/russia-ukraine-war/article/f-16-fighter-jet-pilots-ukraine-spring-offensive-russia-0dx8p26dp?id=1756158124&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjwsJO4BhDoARIsADDv4vAjEFJLt19g8E8Kyqlsh8Jc02bww0QkMloj8bNG1sovpsTURiGRxXwaAjL6EALw_wcB">accused</a> the US of "deliberately delaying" training and creating a situation where there would be "fewer trained pilots than fighter jets."Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy then said in August, when the first F-16s arrived in his country, that Ukraine did not have enough trained pilots or enough of the jets themselves. "The number of F-16s we have in Ukraine, the number of pilots who have already been trained, is not enough," he said.Other partners appear to have training restrictions, too.<div type="image" title="Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stands outside in front of microphones and wearing a black long-sleeved t-shirt with a Ukrainian Air Force F-16 fighter jet behind him" height="1333" width="2000" msid="114149824" hostid="261" sizebytes="167434"></div>Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://thedefensepost.com/2024/06/27/denmark-conclude-pilot-training-ukraine/">said</a> in June that his country would stop training Ukrainian pilots on the fourth-generation F-16s after this year and instead focus on building its fleet of fifth-generation F-35s. That raises questions about the Ukrainian pilots in the training pipeline and opportunities.George Barros, a Russia analyst at the Insitute for the Study of War, told BI that the number of airframes Ukraine has is limited, "and then the biggest limiting factor are the trained humans, the pilots that actually fly the planes.""There's a huge pilot training bottleneck," he said.<h2 id="55362b12-f87a-4ee2-853c-82d5642acc17">Getting the best pilots</h2>Bohnert said the way to ensure Ukraine has the best pilots flying its new jets without delaying getting the F-16s in the sky is to train more pilots and be ruthless about cutting the ones who do not nail the training.Ukraine's F-16s, jets that were first manufactured by General Dynamics before that task later passed to Lockheed Martin, represent a challenge for Ukraine's pilots, who have to overcome old habits and muscle memory associated with flying the kind of Soviet-designed jets that exclusively made up Ukraine's air force before the F-16s arrived.Ukrainian pilots were given around nine months of training, but most Western pilots are given three years to learn the jets, <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-f16s-what-to-know-224d96ff2ad4f416d3969676a55876e2">according</a> to The Associated Press. That's not a lot of time to adapt to a completely new jet that is much more sensitive with fly-by-wire controls instead of hydraulic ones.<div type="image" title="The undersides of 2 F-16s are seen flying against a grey sky" height="1291" width="2000" msid="114149815" hostid="261" sizebytes="56534"></div>Likely not every pilot is up to the task, and that's a problem. "When you train someone who's a great pilot in one plane and transition 'em to a new plane, it's a hard change for a lot of people," Bohnert said, explaining that the solution is to "put more pilots through training."He said that there's a need to "get a higher number and be pretty clear that it's okay to wash half the out and say: 'Sorry, you're not good enough. You need more time.'"Bohnert said Ukraine's partners would ideally have three pilots being trained for every aircraft. It's not clear how many pilots are being trained for each of the F-16s promised to Ukraine, but it appears short of that expectation.Training to that level of excess, Bohnert said, would give Ukraine options and lighten what is already a heavy load as it builds its new fighter fleet.<h2 id="68a56aaa-3bf7-4258-81c2-9106e8fa86bc">F-16s comes with challenges</h2>Air warfare experts expect the F-16s to be a big boost for Ukraine, but they have cautioned that they likely won't be game-changers.Ukraine is receiving a smaller number than what its leadership and partners say it needs to be able to take risks, like the West does, and challenge Russia's larger, more capable air force.<div type="image" title="Two F-16 fighter jets fly over a Patriot Air and Missile Defense System aginst a grey sky" height="1333" width="2000" msid="114149827" hostid="261" sizebytes="100476"></div>Bohnert said the number of F-16s Ukraine is getting from its partners is "definitely not enough." Zelenskyy said in May that his air force needed about 120 to 130 advanced fighter aircraft to challenge Russia in the air.The challenges that Ukraine's armed forces face have been exacerbated by the delay in their arrival, many warfare experts have said. Ukraine asked for the jets soon after Russia launched its full-scale invasion, but the US long refused to budge.The wait for permission to come gave Russia time to prepare and meant programs like training could not begin earlier.The F-16s that Ukraine is receiving are also older models that don't come with the latest upgrades and <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-old-f16s-outclassed-russia-best-jets-former-general-nato-2024-10">don't quite stack up against some of Russia's best jets</a>.Ukraine's F-16 fighters, despite being capable combat-proven platforms, are a generation behind the newest fighters, like the F-35s the US and its allies are operating or Russia's Su-57s, and they would likely be outmatched by some of the fourth-gens like Russia's Su-35s. And without the stealth capabilities of the fifth-gen jets, it's also vulnerable to modern Russian surface-to-air missile systems.Bohnert said Ukraine's newly acquired F-16s, which the US Air Force says cost somewhere between $14 million to $18 million, are "older airframes with not a lot of life left," though he said that "doesn't mean they're bad." It just limits what's possible.Experts say that the jets, despite their limits, will help Ukraine, particularly against incoming drone and missile attacks.Gordon said that ultimately "they are making a difference now, and more and more will help them make more of a difference."

Getting more F-16s is only half the battle. Ukraine also desperately needs to be training more pilots.

<ul class="summary-list"><li>As a trained chef, I know a few cooking techniques that will make common dishes better.</li><li>Create croutons by hand and peel your celery before adding it to cold salads.</li></ul><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/best-things-at-costco-according-to-a-chef-shopping-list-2021-8">As a trained chef</a>, I know that even the smallest tweak can make the largest difference on your final plate. Here are 13 tips for preparing the foods <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/vinaigrette-recipe-everyone-should-know-how-to-make-chef-review-2021-8">everyone should know how to make</a>:<h2>Cook roast chicken along with hearty veggies </h2>Turn your <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/best-chef-recipe-for-roast-chicken-reviewed-photos-2021-5">beautiful roast bird</a> into a one-pan meal by scattering chopped carrots, onions, potatoes, and any other hearty vegetables around the chicken in the pan.As the meat cooks, it will release delicious juices and flavor, and those ingredients will then soak it up. By the time your chicken is cooked through, you'll have some of the most flavorful veggies to serve with it. <h2>Make the crispiest croutons by using your hands</h2><div type="image" title="Croutons cooking in oil on a black baking sheet" height="2651" width="3546" msid="114361112" hostid="261" sizebytes="761490"></div>Achieve really crunchy croutons — so loud that you can't hear your dinner companion over your bite of Caesar salad — by hand-tearing slightly stale bread instead of slicing it with a knife.Tearing creates wonderful nooks and crannies that soak up <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/helpful-advice-for-following-a-mediterranean-diet-from-pro">flavorful olive oil</a> and seasonings. Plus more surface area means more room for browning in the oven, and ultimately, crunch. <h2>Make French onion soup in large batches</h2>Skip the fuss and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/best-one-bowl-dessert-recipe-for-butter-cake-review-">extra dishes</a> by making a large batch of one-pot French onion soup using an ovenproof skillet or Dutch oven.Once it's about done, top the soup with a layer of toasted croutons and shredded Gruyère, pop the entire pot under the oven broiler until the cheese is melted and bubbling, and serve it family-style.<h2>Give your eggs the low-and-slow treatment</h2>Turn down the heat on your scrambled eggs and stir them as little as possible for the creamiest, most tender texture.Instead of jostling the mix in the pan, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/i-tried-the-easy-folded-egg-recipe-reviewed-photos">gently pull the outer edges toward the center</a> a few times as they cook.And don't forget to remove your scramble from the skillet before it looks fully cooked — done in the pan is dry on the plate.<h2>Peel your celery before adding it to tuna or pasta salad</h2><div type="image" title="tuna salad in a black and white bowl on a white table" height="2119" width="2826" msid="114361111" hostid="261" sizebytes="257870"></div>Next time you make tuna or <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/best-chef-recipe-for-pasta-salad-reviewed-photos-2021-5">pasta salad</a>, make sure to run a vegetable peeler along the length of each celery stalk.You'll remove a thin but highly fibrous outer layer that can make eating celery unpleasant and chewy. <h2>Keep puff pastry on standby</h2>With a box of puff pastry in your freezer, you'll be able to whip up an <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/costco-best-frozen-appetizers-2019-5">impressive appetizer</a>, dinner, or dessert with minimal effort.You can make a one-crust chicken pot pie (no one will miss the soggy bottom, I promise), elegant twisted cheese sticks, or a stunning tarte Tatin (a dessert baked with caramelized fruit) with just a few extra ingredients. <h2>Add some sweetness to your sandwiches</h2>Slide a thin slice of apple or pear between the bread and cheese for an easy and gourmet way to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trying-trick-to-make-grilled-cheese-better-from-martha-stewart">upgrade your next grilled cheese</a>.The fruit releases natural pectins, or sugars, that infuse the sandwich with a subtle sweetness — the perfect complement to umami-rich cheese. <h2>Chill your cookie dough before baking</h2><div type="image" title="cookie dough" height="1121" width="1495" msid="114361115" hostid="261" sizebytes="117724"></div>To make the thickest, chewiest cookies, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/cookie-baking-mistakes-people-make-2019-3">chill the raw mounds</a> in the fridge or freezer to solidify the butter so they don't spread as much or cook too quickly in the oven.Then remove the cookies from the oven a minute before they're ready and leave them on the baking sheet for five before cooling on a wire rack. <h2>The only thing that beats homemade ice cream is frozen custard</h2>To upgrade your creamy dessert game, make a simple custard with egg yolks, sugar, cream, and your favorite flavorings.After churning and freezing, the result will be infinitely creamier, with a richer flavor that blows the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/best-store-bought-ice-cream-2019-3">store-bought stuff</a> out of the water. <h2>Your food processor is your friend, especially for homemade mayo</h2>Discover the wonderful world of homemade mayo with the help of your food processor.Turn an egg yolk and high-quality oil into fluffy and delicious mayonnaise for your next sandwich, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/best-chef-recipe-for-potato-salad-reviewed-photos-2021-7">potato salad</a>, or dressing. <h2>Soak your potatoes</h2><div type="image" title="Peeled potatoes soaking in water" height="2000" width="2666" msid="114361113" hostid="261" sizebytes="280092"></div>Whether you're <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trying-the-best-air-fryer-potato-recipes-reviewed-photos-2021-8">making crispy fries</a> or <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trying-best-mashed-potato-recipes-from-chefs">fluffy mashed potatoes</a>, soak your spuds after peeling or slicing them.Potatoes oxidize quickly, so their white flesh will start to turn brown soon after it's exposed to the air, but plunging them into a water bath prevents this from happening.<h2>Cook chicken in water to make a delicious homemade broth </h2>Make the most soul-warming chicken-noodle soup by cooking the whole bird in a pot of simmering water to turn the mix into broth and cook the meat at the same time.Then remove the chicken, add your veggies, and shred the meat. Stir everything together at the end with noodles for a homemade soup that'll <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ways-to-avoid-getting-sick-when-you-leave-the-house-2019-6">stop any cold</a> in its tracks. <h2>Salt the sweet stuff</h2>Add a sprinkle of flaky salt to cookies, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trying-5-minute-30-minute-and-100-hour-brownies-2021-5">brownies</a>, cakes, and pies when they're still warm and fresh out of the oven.Salt naturally enhances flavors, including sweet ones. Plus it adds a nice textural component to your soft baked goods. This story was originally published in September 2021 and most recently updated on October 18, 2024.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>My dad died in August of 2024 after a fall.</li><li>The hospital put him on the maternity floor for hospice care.</li></ul>Last summer, I sat in the backseat as my car hurtled down the highway in the middle of the night. I looked at the clock: 1:27 a.m. I closed my eyes and focused on my breath for what felt like an eternity, then looked back at the dashboard lights: 1:29.I thought about the last time I'd been on the highway in the early morning hours. It was six years before when I <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/guides/health/reproductive-health/how-long-does-labor-last">was in labor</a> with my second child. I'd barely made it to the hospital, arriving 12 minutes before she was born. In the car, I focused on my breathing, knowing that something very difficult was waiting for me at the end of the ride, and the only way out was through.Now, I was again speeding toward a hospital, but for an entirely different reason. <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/dad-died-when-i-was-22-taught-me-live-life-2023-6">My dad was dying</a>. Earlier that night, he had fallen and never regained consciousness. Like the night I was in labor, I was terrified yet slightly relieved. I knew I had no choice but to move through the pain — but I was surprised to learn exactly where that would happen.<h2 id="f755d702-43c7-4333-acda-0ef242b1b49a">In the ER, I chose to move my dad to hospice care</h2>My dad had been very sick for more than a decade. He was only 61, but <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/guides/health/alzheimers-vs-dementia">his dementia</a> and ever-expanding list of physical ailments meant he seemed much older. Throughout his many hospitalizations, I worried we would go on this way forever, with him trapped in a mind and body that no longer matched his spirit. Like in late pregnancy, it was hard to imagine the journey would ever end.Yet that night, <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/guides/health/conditions-symptoms/urgent-care-vs-emergency-room">in the emergency room</a>, the doctors were very clear: we had reached transition. Doctors from the intensive care unit and hospice answered questions from me, my siblings, and my mom. I gave the answer that I had discussed with my dad many times — no more intensive interventions."We'll move him to a room upstairs," the nurse said, "and you can be there as long as you need."<h2 id="17d685db-ba71-4392-8cdf-5b0b13c24d0f">A nurse moved my dad from the ER to the maternity floor</h2>We had just long enough to grab a vending machine snack before she reappeared, telling us to follow her. "It's a locked ward," she explained. My dad was in <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/drew-barrymore-returns-institution-sent-as-kid-video-2021-9">psychiatric hospitals</a> many times, so we all chuckled half-heartedly at the idea of a locked ward. Then I saw where we were really headed: the maternity floor.I had no idea what a hospice unit would look like. The nurse explained that the hospital felt the maternity ward was the best place for end-of-life care. The floor has large rooms for families, and the staff is experienced in navigating intense life events. Many of the nurses have bereavement training to help with pregnancy loss and stillbirths. The healthcare providers on this floor knew there was no timeline for how long nature would take.My mind immediately flashed to that moment on the drive in when I'd thought about the parallels between the night <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/celebrity-home-births-2020-10">I gave birth</a>, and the night I learned my dad was dying. I had goosebumps; I wasn't the only one who saw the similarities. I knew my dad, who had a strong spiritual life, would love the feeling of coming full circle, his life ending when just down the hall, a new life began.<h2 id="5b742cda-a5ee-4a9a-8884-9fdbc4ea45c2">I would love to see other hospitals use this approach</h2>For the next 48 hours, my siblings and I took turns sleeping in two spacious recliners typically reserved for birth partners. We walked the halls and let the nurses nourish us with tea and saltine crackers. There were no beeping monitors or too-bright fluorescent lights, just a calm waiting and the occasional chime that told us a baby had been born.Soon after my dad took his last breaths, his sister came to the hospital for one last kiss. "Make sure you tell her we're on the maternity floor," I told my brother. "She's going to be confused." A nurse who overheard laughed.No one expects life to end on the maternity floor, but I know this hospital was onto something. A nurse told me that once a baby was born at almost the exact moment a hospice patient died. Both families cried when they realized the two shared a name.Death, however painful, is part of life. Having a hospital make dedicated space for that helped me process my dad's death and gave me something to smile at along the way.

Before my dad died, he was put on the maternity floor for hospice. The nurses took such good care of us, and it was quiet and calm.

<ul class="summary-list"><li>I tried mat, clinical, studio, reformer, sculpt, somatic, and rowing Pilates.</li><li>I was looking for something that would be a workout and tone my body. </li></ul>With so <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/doing-pilates-for-20-years-strengthened-body-throughout-life-2024-3">many types of Pilates</a> classes out there, I decided to test as many as possible to find which ones worked best for my body.I wanted <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/best-exercises-lose-weight-tone-body-summer-2018-5">fitness and toning</a>, but I also needed an experienced instructor who knew how to care for my body which was still feeling the impacts of having a baby.<a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/did-pilates-for-year-man-strengthened-abs-eased-pain-2024">I tried mat</a>, clinical, studio, reformer, sculpt, somatic, and rowing Pilates. While some helped strengthen my weak muscles, others were a little too intense.<h2 id="2665f211-2427-4aca-881a-e713330b4be7">Getting sweaty</h2><a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tried-reformer-pilates-loved-it-would-do-again-2024-1">Reformer Pilates classes</a> are popular with those wanting a different type of cardio workout. While the class features Pilates moves on a reformer bed, it's ramped up by about 50% by adding high-intensity circuit exercises, such as squats, lunges, burpees, and planks.I decided to start at the beginner level and I'm glad I did. There's a focus on getting your heart rate up so the exercises and reps can be intense. I was mindful of trying to keep the correct form so I didn't injure myself.While I got a sweat up and felt great afterward, I'd rather do my Pilates on a reformer in a more controlled way and leave the burpees for when I'm on the floor.<h2 id="1ab08bd4-0f00-48d5-bd99-49a36e1efbd1">Adding rowing</h2>I hadn't thought of experiencing Pilates in the same way as <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/common-spin-class-mistake-psycle-spinning-too-quickly-2018-11">a spin class</a> but after testing out rowing Pilates that's what I got.The class uses a converted reformer bed with a rowing machine at one end. You might do a mix of some Pilates moves on the reformer, interchanged with exercises like squats, step-ups, rows, and chest lifts. Stints on the rower are thrown in at intervals to keep the heart rate up — all to a pumping soundtrack and an instructor motivating you every step of the way.I liked the rowing and weights aspects of the class but found the Pilates moves a little too advanced to be doing at speed and again, I was conscious of hurting something. If burning calories is the goal, then I can see how addictive this class could be.<h2 id="62d103d5-43b6-48a3-bef6-e3397080f603">Gentle doesn't mean ineffective</h2>A traditional mat Pilates class is based on the classical repertoire of <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-happens-if-you-do-pilates-every-day-2018-7?amp_device_id=dxAN0ne1ACqwaxz6iUaxlE">Joseph Pilates</a>. There's a big focus on activating your core and pelvic floor muscles through a series of small and controlled exercises. Gentle doesn't mean easy though. The amount of effort you need to execute the moves correctly is challenging.<a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/best-exercises-without-equipment-that-can-sculpt-your-whole-body-2019-10">Sculpt Pilates</a> is also done predominantly on the mat but involves light weights and other props together with bodyweight exercises like tricep push-ups and squats to increase the intensity. I found it to be a great way to tone and strengthen areas like your glutes and arms.In another variation on a mat class, I tried somatic Pilates which is based on slow and mindful movements to help release muscle tension and strengthen them. I found the exercises to use more of the whole body and it took me a few goes to build up to some of the more advanced ones requiring some strong core action.<h2 id="0a52a647-aa49-40a2-a8cd-d5789bb04ef4">I went during pregnancy and postpartum</h2>I went to clinical Pilates classes at a physiotherapist during my pregnancy and after I had my daughter.In these classes, a physiotherapist designs a program to treat any injuries or to strengthen up parts of the body. In these classes I worked on exercises to help with pelvic pain, plantar fasciitis, and tight hip flexors and calves.The series of movements are repetitive, build strength and target problem areas in a clinically safe way. I was able to manage a lot of physical injuries through these sessions and improve my balance and core strength.<h2 id="7c55309e-0697-4deb-bd97-ccad8c73b548">I prefer Studio Pilates</h2>Studio Pilates classes are also based on the teachings of Joseph Pilates. These classes are taught one-on-one or in small groups by a qualified instructor trained on the different apparatus, including the reformer bed, trapeze table and Pilates chair.I enjoy these classes for the variation, the challenge of the exercises, and the benefits to my body. Attending studio Pilates has helped keep my plantar fasciitis at bay and I feel a lot stronger through my core, glutes and back.With a focus on targeting different muscle groups, improving functionality and movement, and preventing injury, these classes suit a whole range of people and can be adapted accordingly.As someone with some niggling physical injuries and who really values a good stretch, the best types of Pilates classes for me were those that helped strengthen and improve my flexibility in a safe way — like mat, clinical, and Studio Pilates.Trying different classes showed there is something out there for everyone. It's a matter of choosing a style and a space that suits you and your body, so you can get the benefits without injuring yourself in the process.

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