INDUSTRY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 12, 2025--
As the largest global AI fitness conference takes place this week in Las Vegas, Sunny Health & Fitness, a leading provider of high-quality home fitness equipment and training solutions, announced the successful 2.0 launch of its Sunny AI Fitness Coach in the free SunnyFit app, a milestone following an earlier soft launch that allowed the company to refine the technology based on real user feedback.
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Since its initial debut, the Sunny AI Fitness Coach has evolved into a smarter, more intuitive platform that continues to keep users engaged and motivated. The 2.0 version incorporates enhanced personalization, expanded workout options, and seamless integration with Sunny’s connected fitness equipment, further cementing its role as a powerful tool for home fitness enthusiasts.
How It Works
When users engage with the Sunny AI Fitness Coach, they answer a few quick questions about their fitness goals, available time, equipment, and current fitness level. The AI then delivers a tailored workout plan that adapts over time, offering modifications, alternatives, and progress tracking to keep users on track.
What Sets Sunny AI Apart
Unlike generic AI workout tools, the Sunny AI Fitness Coach is built on a foundation of:
Seamless Integration with Connected Fitness
The Sunny AI Fitness Coach pairs perfectly with Sunny Health & Fitness’s extensive line of connected fitness equipment, including treadmills, exercise bikes, rowers, ellipticals, and strength machines. By syncing with the SunnyFit app, users can track performance, log progress, and enjoy immersive training experiences that make every workout more engaging and effective.
Sunny’s Commitment to Continuous Innovation
Sunny Health & Fitness will continue to refine the AI Fitness Coach by adding new features, expanding the movement library, and enhancing customization based on user feedback and emerging technology.
The Sunny AI Fitness Coach 2.0 is available now in the free SunnyFit App on iOS and Android.
About Sunny Health & Fitness
Sunny Health & Fitness has been a trusted provider of high-quality fitness equipment and training solutions for over 20 years. With a commitment to affordability, innovation, and customer success, Sunny offers a wide range of products, from cardio to strength training along with digital resources to help users achieve their health and fitness goals.
Sunny Health & Fitness successfully launched The SunnyFit AI Fitness Coach to provide customers with an exciting tool to optimize their fitness.
HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas man who at one time escaped from custody and was on the run for three days after being sentenced to death for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend nearly 27 years ago was scheduled on Wednesday to be the first person executed in the U.S. this year.
Charles Victor Thompson was condemned for the April 1998 shooting deaths of his ex-girlfriend, Glenda Dennise Hayslip, 39; and her new boyfriend, Darren Keith Cain, 30, at her apartment in the Houston suburb of Tomball.
Thompson, 55, was scheduled to receive a lethal injection Wednesday evening at the state penitentiary in Huntsville.
Prosecutors say Thompson and Hayslip had been romantically involved for a year but split after Thompson “became increasingly possessive, jealous and abusive.”
According to court records, Hayslip and Cain were dating when Thompson came to Hayslip’s apartment and began arguing with Cain around 3 a.m. the night of the killings. Police were called and told Thompson to leave the apartment complex. Thompson returned three hours later and shot both Hayslip and Cain, who died at the scene. Hayslip died in the hospital a week later.
“The Hayslip and Cain families have waited over twenty-five years for justice to occur,” prosecutors with the Harris County District Attorney’s Office said in court filings.
Thompson’s attorneys have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stay his execution, arguing Thompson was not allowed to refute or confront the prosecution's evidence that concluded Hayslip died from a gunshot wound to the face. Thompson's attorneys have argued Hayslip actually died from flawed medical care she received after the shooting that resulted in severe brain damage sustained from oxygen deprivation following a failed intubation.
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles on Monday denied Thompson’s request to commute his death sentence to a lesser penalty.
“If he had been able to raise a reasonable doubt as to the cause of Ms. Hayslip’s death, he would not be guilty of capital murder,” Thompson’s attorneys said in court filings with the Supreme Court.
Prosecutors said a jury has already rejected the claim and, concluded under state law that Thompson is responsible for Hayslip’s death because it “would not have occurred but for his conduct.”
Hayslip’s family had filed a lawsuit against one of her doctors, alleging medical negligence during her treatment left her brain-dead. A jury in 2002 found in favor of the doctor.
Thompson had his death sentence overturned and had a new punishment trial held in November 2005. A jury again ordered him to die by lethal injection.
Shortly after being resentenced, Thompson escaped from the Harris County Jail in Houston by walking out the front door virtually unchallenged by deputies. Thompson later told The Associated Press that after meeting with his attorney in a small interview cell, he slipped out of his handcuffs and orange jail jumpsuit and left the room, which was unlocked. Thompson waived an ID badge fashioned out of his prison ID card to get past several deputies.
“I got to smell the trees, feel the wind in my hair, grass under my feet, see the stars at night. It took me straight back to childhood being outside on a summer night,” Thompson said about his three days on the run during a 2005 interview with the AP. He was arrested in Shreveport, Louisiana, while trying to arrange for wire transfers of money from overseas so he could make it to Canada.
If the execution is carried out, Thompson would be the first person put to death this year in the United States. Texas has historically held more executions than any other state, though Florida had the most executions in 2025, with 19.
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This photo provided by Texas Department of Criminal Justice. shows Texas death row inmate Charles Victor Thompson. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP)
