Chat with the AI Coach

The AI Coach is a chat inside FitKeep where you can ask questions about your own training: “How did my training go this week?”, “Am I getting fitter than last year?”, or “How is my plan going?“. It looks up your activities, best efforts, goals and Training Plan to answer, and links back to the ones it mentions. While you train with a plan, it also reviews your runs and suggests changes on its own.

Getting access

The coach is an early-stage upgrade, switched on one account at a time. If you’d like to try it, email hello@fitkeep.cloud and ask. We’re opening it up gradually, so we may not be able to say yes to every request yet.

If the coach isn’t on for your account, there is no Coach or Plan link in the navigation. Opening the coach page directly shows a short explanation with an Ask for access button, which starts an email to us.

Want to use AI with your FitKeep data in the meantime? Any account can connect its own AI assistant, such as Claude, over MCP. See Connect an AI Assistant with MCP.

Where to find the coach

Coach in the navigation: all your conversations, and a new one with New conversation
Beside your plan: on a wide screen the Plan page shows the coach next to the plan, with your latest conversation about it. Hide coach and Show coach fold it away and back, and All conversations lists the others. On a phone or a narrow window, use the Coach tab on the Plan page instead

A conversation started from your plan (or from Discuss with coach) is linked to the plan, and shows both beside the plan and under Coach.

Start a conversation

Select Coach in the navigation, or open the coach on the Plan page
Type a question, or pick one of the suggested questions
While the coach works, you’ll see what it’s looking up, for example “Looking through your activities” or “Checking your training plan”

Some answers take a minute. If it takes a while, the coach says it is still working on it. Each conversation is saved, so you can come back to it later from the list of conversations.

If an answer fails because of the connection or a problem on our side, select Try again. The coach picks up the same question without saving it twice. If it says the question was too much for one go, ask for one thing at a time.

What the coach can look up

Your activities, filtered by type and date
The full detail of a single activity, including laps, Splits (the calculated kilometres inside long laps), pauses, and how it ranks against your other activities of the same type
Your best efforts at each standard distance
Your totals for the last 7 days, the 7 days before that, the last 30 days, and all time
Your training week by week or month by month, for comparisons such as “this month vs last month”
Your goals and how far along you are
Your Training Plan: its goal, Phases, weekly targets and Week Sketches, your Training Preferences, and the sessions of any weeks with how your runs matched them
Your usual terrain: whether your recent runs are flat, rolling or hilly, so it doesn’t plan fast sessions on hills or read slower paces on hilly routes as lost fitness

The coach only reads your own data. It never sees other users’ activities.

Let the coach draft a goal

Ask the coach to create a goal, change one, or archive one, and it drafts the change as a card in the chat showing the target, the activities that count, and the period. Nothing changes until you select Confirm. Select Cancel to discard it. Once confirmed, the card links to the goal.

See Set Goals and Track Your Progress for how goals work.

Train with a plan

The coach drafts a Training Plan with you toward a race, finishing a distance, improving a time, or staying fit. Once the plan is active, ask it to change sessions, weekly targets, Phases or your Training Preferences, or to match a run to a different session, and it answers with a Plan Proposal: a card showing the changes before and after. As with goals, nothing changes until you confirm. See Train with a Training Plan.

What the coach does on its own

While you have an active plan, the coach does some work without being asked:

Activity Reviews: a few minutes after each run, notes on how it went against its session or the week. They show on the activity page and in Needs attention on the plan page
Weekly Check-ins: on Sunday evening, a look back at the week with a proposal for the next one, except in the plan’s last week, where the Completion Review looks back on the whole plan instead
Overdue sessions: the morning after a session went without a run, when there are days left in the week, a proposal for the rest of the week
A new outline after you change your goal’s date so the plan gains or loses weeks
A Completion Review when a plan completes, with a proposal for your next goal

All of these are reviews or proposals. The coach never changes your plan or your goals without your Confirm. On its own it writes at most 5 Activity Reviews a day, and at most 2 Weekly Check-ins, overdue proposals and Completion Reviews together. See What the coach does on its own for the details.

Discuss with coach

Discuss with coach on an Activity Review, a Weekly Check-in or a proposal in Needs attention starts a new conversation about it, with what the coach wrote already in it. Under an Activity Review, Ask your coach offers questions to start with, such as “What could I have done better?” or “Compare with my last similar run”. “How does this affect the rest of my week?” is only offered while the run’s week is still running.

Coach settings

Settings → Coach is shown when the coach is on for your account.

Coach language

The language the coach writes your Activity Reviews and Weekly Check-ins in. In the chat it also answers in this language, unless you write in another one. Pick it and select Save.

Automatic coaching

Whether the coach is reviewing your runs and checking in on its own:

On: the coach does the work listed under What the coach does on its own while you have an active plan
Paused: when you haven’t visited FitKeep for 14 days, the coach stops reviewing your runs and checking in, so it doesn’t write for nobody. Select Resume here, or on the plan page, to turn it back on. You can still ask for a review of a run yourself while it is paused

Email notifications

Settings → Notifications is shown when the coach is on for your account. Choose which emails you get:

Weekly Check-ins: when your coach has written a look back at your week and a proposal for the next one
Plan proposals: when your coach suggests a change after a missed session, or an idea for your next goal when a plan ends

Both are off until you turn them on, here or with Email me on the plan page. You get at most one email a day. The emails are short, in English, and hold no training data: they say what is waiting and link to FitKeep. Every email has an unsubscribe link that turns off that kind of email only.

Conversation length

Each conversation fits up to 10 questions. The coach shows how many you have left, and when a conversation is full, start a new one. A fresh conversation also tends to give better answers when you change topic.

If you send a lot of messages in a short time, you may be asked to wait a moment before sending more.

Delete conversations

Delete a single conversation from the conversation list, or choose Select to delete several at once. Deleted conversations can’t be recovered.

Your privacy

Coach conversations, including their titles, are encrypted at rest. To write a reply, your message, the earlier messages in that conversation, and the fitness data the coach looked up are sent to Google’s Gemini models on Google Cloud, in the EU. The same goes for the data behind Activity Reviews, Weekly Check-ins and the coach’s proposals. Your raw FIT files and GPS tracks are not. Because your messages are sent as written, leave out anything you wouldn’t want processed by Gemini. The Privacy Policy has the details.