{"id":221155,"date":"2016-09-14T21:07:49","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T04:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=221155"},"modified":"2016-09-14T21:07:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T04:07:49","slug":"coached-by-a-robot-fitness-tracking-magic-by-chuck-katis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/coached-by-a-robot-fitness-tracking-magic-by-chuck-katis\/","title":{"rendered":"Coached By A Robot? Fitness Tracking Magic by Chuck Katis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><em>By Annie Grevers, Swimming World Staff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Chuck Katis has always been a man on a mission\u2026or rather, a man on many missions. His number one goal: better the world. Number two: better himself. But pretty much all of Katis\u2019s endeavors involve self refinement along with world refinement. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Katis began his collegiate swimming career at Harvard before transferring in January 2014 to Cal Berkeley. He finished out his career with a stunning 2015 NCAA Championships. The 6-foot-3 Cal Bear powered to a 50.89 100-yard breaststroke (3rd fastest all-time) and a 1:50.54 200-yard breaststroke.\u00a0Katis recorded a\u00a022.64 in the breaststroke leg of Cal&#8217;s 200 medley relay&#8211;\u00a0the fastest 50 breast split in history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He was positioned well rolling into the Olympic year. He was prepared to be a contender in the 100 breast at the U.S. Olympic Olympic Trials, but Trials did not go as planned. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">After years of streamlining his heart and soul into making the U.S. Olympic team, his dreams were vanquished with an abrupt and disappointing finish to his season. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI had a lot of energy after Trials,\u201d Katis recalled. It was energy he had planned on funneling into Olympic training camp and then into his race in Rio\u2014 energy that needed a new direction. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Cal training partner <strong>Sean Mahoney<\/strong> practically busted down the door to Katis\u2019s Berkeley apartment one day. He demanded Katis get out of his hole and come work out with him the next morning. \u201cHe straight up saved me,\u201d Katis said. Mahoney has become Katis\u2019s coach in the last couple of months. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Soon thereafter, the post-Trials energy began to snowball into an idea. Katis started constructing a robot\u2014 a workout buddy robot. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cSome people thought I was going off the deep end\u2014 I was obsessed,\u201d Katis said. \u201cI couldn\u2019t stop reading about the various components\u2026I realized all of my other ideas were to help prepare me for this one.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">And Katis\u2019s \u201cother ideas\u201d have not been flops.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_221159\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-221159\" data-attachment-id=\"221159\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/coached-by-a-robot-fitness-tracking-magic-by-chuck-katis\/chuck-katis-magician-cards\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/chuck-katis-magician-cards.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"960,640\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"chuck-katis-magician-cards\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;chuck-katis-magician-cards&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy: Chuck Katis&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/chuck-katis-magician-cards-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/chuck-katis-magician-cards.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-221159 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/chuck-katis-magician-cards-700x500.jpg\" alt=\"chuck-katis-magician-cards\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-221159\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Courtesy: Chuck Katis<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">One of Katis&#8217;s earliest passions was magic. He was first entranced by a street magician in London while on a family vacation. Most kids\u2019 fascinations with magic fizzle out after a couple days of tinkering with the magic kit, but Katis\u2019s interest only compounded. He put on shows for his family and friends, but when he entered high school he felt a tug to do something more with magic. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI wanted to take the magic and apply it in a way that was useful. I started to perform for young cancer patients\u2026for some reason or another I was called to do that.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themagicofmiracles.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Magic of Miracles<\/a>\u00a0was born in 2009, when Katis was just 16. Through the organization, Katis brings magic into the lives of those in the most dire situations\u2014 kids with cancer. The sick spectators can escape their struggle for a few minutes as they are sucked into the astonishment of a card trick or a jaw-dropping illusion. The big-hearted magician also performs at homeless shelters in the Bay Area (and recently performed with legend <strong>David Blaine<\/strong>). <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This summer Katis created a unique way to support your favorite candidate by selling\u00a0coffee\u00a0sporting playful Trump and Hillary labels. Five percent of profits from each item sold via his site\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caffeine2016.com\/home\" target=\"_blank\">Caffeine2016<\/a>\u00a0is given to respective presidential campaigns. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Katis also has an education technology startup &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2016\/08\/12\/technology\/chuck-katis-caffeine2016\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mentagrate<\/a>&#8216; (&#8220;mental aggregate&#8221;), a Q&amp;A marketplace to help students answer questions. Yes, the 23-year-old has an active, ambitious mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_221158\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-221158\" data-attachment-id=\"221158\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/coached-by-a-robot-fitness-tracking-magic-by-chuck-katis\/mahoney-robot\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/mahoney-robot-e1473904785546.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1069,801\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"mahoney-robot\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;mahoney-robot&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy: Chuck Katis&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/mahoney-robot-e1473904785546-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/mahoney-robot-e1473904785546-1024x767.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-221158 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/mahoney-robot-e1473904785546-700x500.jpg\" alt=\"mahoney-robot\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-221158\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Courtesy: Chuck Katis<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">His newest project &#8212; the robot &#8212; is what the magician\/entrepreneur\/swimmer is most excited about. The robot system is called \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebodbox.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Bodbox<\/a>\u201d and it was designed, assembled and coded by Katis. The inventor continually refers to the team behind the fitness-guru robot as \u201cwe\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">So who exactly comprises the team behind Bodbox? Katis laughs. \u201cIt\u2019s me and the robot. \u2018We\u2019 are the team.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Bodbox comes to the gym with you and tracks movements. Right now Katis is tracking one specific movement \u2014 the squat \u2014 and recording results for the Cal men\u2019s swim team. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Katis has placed fluorescent green on the hex bars and a different brightly colored tag on each weight placed on the bar for the Bodbox to track. There are hundreds of colors that can be coded and tracked by Katis&#8217;s creation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe robot is watching their squats by tracking color codes,\u201d Katis said. \u201cThe guys get emails each week, letting them know their squats increased by X percent, along with analytics on velocity and acceleration.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Eventually the robot will aggregate a 3D graph of the athlete\u2019s lifting over time and be able to engineer future training sessions to help the athlete continue to make headway. Katis admits to getting ahead of himself, but wants the Bodbox to eventually act as a stand-in coach\u2014 an instrument that can feed you workouts, nutrition plans and progress reports. Katis thinks there may even come a day Bodbox comes with the voice of respected athletes like\u00a0<strong>Marshawn Lynch<\/strong>, motivating you to push through that last rep. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Perhaps the world will thank Katis for not making the Olympic team this go \u2018round. Bodbox, the robo-coach, may be the &#8220;trainer&#8221; that helps place swimmers on the 2020 and 2024 Olympic squads.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Katis has one prototype built, but plans on making 50 more to sell on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1841446861\/the-bod-box\" target=\"_blank\">Kickstarter<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cNo one will ever see or understand what went into this over that month,\u201d Katis says with ever-present enthusiasm. \u201cI\u2019m going to make it successful&#8211; maybe that&#8217;s the swimmer in me.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The confidence and charisma in Katis\u2019s voice is enough to sell anyone on almost any of his ideas. With a straightforward mission of bettering the world, there aren\u2019t many Katis causes worth passing up. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Annie Grevers, Swimming World Staff Writer Chuck Katis has always been a man on a mission\u2026or rather, a man on many missions. 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