The Man Behind The Morning Rep: How Strength Coaches Should Actually Use AI | Gridiron Warrior Podcast

Drew Fopeano is the man behind The Morning Rep, the free daily email that puts strength and conditioning news, job openings, and events in coaches' inboxes every morning. AI finds it, summarizes it, and writes it while he sleeps. He built the whole thing in under a year with no coding background, and it is adding hundreds of subscribers a week.

We get into where coaches should start once they stop using AI like a Google search: projects, connected apps, and making it interview you. The ChatGPT flyer problem and the voice note trick that teaches Claude your stances. The scheduled task that proofreads Drew's newsletter at 10 PM every night. The 95/5 rule of building your own AMS, and the fail-safes you only learn after somebody fat-fingers a body weight by 100 pounds. Plus the two things neither of us will let AI touch, the Rich Burnett Plyomat story, my hydration testing dashboard, and NotebookLM, the tool most coaches have not opened yet.

Timestamps: 3:03 Meet Drew: the man behind The Morning Rep 3:40 Kinexon years and the S&C news gap 6:25 What's inside The Morning Rep 8:35 Getting past the Google-search stage 11:05 The ChatGPT flyer problem + voice notes 13:15 The 10 PM AI proofreader 16:15 Building your own AMS: the 95/5 rule 20:25 Should AI write your programs? 22:30 Why strength coaches keep their jobs 25:05 Getting your app live: Supabase and Netlify 29:40 Rich Burnett rebuilt Plyomat with Claude 31:45 The hydration dashboard story 34:40 Advice for hesitant coaches 36:20 Try NotebookLM next

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