Personalized fitness coaching

[StefanieFitbit]

Hey, Fitbit Community!

With the Ask Coach feature , you can adjust your pre-planned workouts to fit around any situation you encounter. Wanna know how? Take a look at these suggestions to find out how you can fully utilize your health coach to work best for you.

• Adjust your schedule. Life happens. Let your coach know: “I’m going on vacation, and I’ll pause my workout plan for 7 days.” It will adapt your coaching plan to match your current needs.

• Adjust your coaching experience. Let your coach know your preferences by saying: “Remember that I prefer to run in the morning.” It will save this as a memory to personalize your experience.

• Work around an injury. Dealing with a sore spot? Say: “I have a sore knee today, can you suggest a workout that doesn’t put pressure on it?”

• Adapt to your environment. Working out somewhere new? Try: “I’m at a hotel gym with only dumbbells, can you adjust my workout?”

• Share your energy levels. Not feeling 100%? Let your coach know: “I’m not feeling very energetic today, can we do a lighter workout?”

• Match your time constraints. In a rush? Say: “I only have 20 minutes left for a workout right now, can you give me something quick?”

Now that you have an idea of how to use Ask Coach to work with your schedule, you can enjoy convenience on another level!

Did Ask Coach help you work around your situation? Was it able to make your life more convenient? Tell us about your journey with your personal health coach and how it makes scheduling your workouts much easier!

When sharing your experiences, please respect our Community Guidelines and be mindful that this community board is public and we recommend against sharing any personal health information that could identify you or is highly sensitive.

For more information, visit the Fitbit Help Center.

Let us know what you think!

Your Fitbit Community Team

[Horses281]

How do I get started with the coach fitness

[Dmac52]

Are you a premium subscriber and have you switched to the public preview?

[jwm4]

This app in its current state as of 4/3/2026 is maddening. It repetitively fails at simple tasks such as recording an historical workout or linking Fitbit generated activity to a workout plan. It repeats old issues (sore leg) for weeks. It continually attempts to modify my workouts without regard to my exercise preferences. It inaccurately calculates/forecasts my readiness. 

In summary, it needs a LOT of work. Fitbit should be clearer in communicating the developmental stages of this app. Is it a MVP, alpha, beta, or production release? Public preview is insufficiently vague. You should also tell people when to expect improvements. I'm at the point of just giving up. If Fitbod had a Fitbit activity connection, I would never use this app.

[NickR20]

Similar to everyone else here. I was using this Public Preview for 1-2 months and it was fantastic. However, about a month ago, the AI stopped showing my workouts, my walks are not tracking to the stage they were (showing the map for example) and the agent does not provide daily updates anymore.

• If you ask it to show your workouts, it will talk about them contextually, but not appear in the workout section
• It will only try to create a new fitness plan if you try to restart it
• If you look at the next week in the Fitness tab > Workout Plan, it will tell you all about the workouts that week. When that week arrives, all of a sudden I have no workouts that week
• My sleep is no longer tracked for a morning brief either

The silence to the feedback provided here is quite alarming. As stated before, transparency is required to understand where this public preview really is (MVP? Alpha? Beta?) - Regardless of what stage, surely communication in a forum like this is a minimum? Otherwise, you will lose premium subscribers and testers.

[PamMadrid]

This feature is very good at making a workout plan. I had hip surgery and it made a modified plan and did check-ins to see if it was too much or too little! That was great!! What isn't great is the VOLUMES of information it gives for most questions and so much of it is repetitious!

[SoniaF.]

I don't have any program and i was talking with coach for 3 times

[HennoH]

1. Coach Updates Not Syncing with the App: Changes, corrections, or updates made through the AI Coach/assistant do not reflect in the actual app data. Despite multiple attempts and confirmations within the chat interface, the physical logs remain unchanged. There is a complete disconnect between the coach interface and the app's database.

2. Inability to Complete Workout Plans Without Linking: It is currently impossible to mark a workout plan as "done" without being forced to link it to a recorded activity. This is a major flaw for users who perform multiple different workouts in a single day (e.g., cycling and strength training at different times). Users should be able to check off a planned workout independently of linking a specific GPS or heart rate log.

3. Regression in Cycling Statistics (Split Display): In previous versions, cycling splits were displayed sequentially (1, 2, 3, 4, etc.). In the current version, this has been replaced by a repetitive "1km, 1km, 1km" label for every split. This makes it impossible to track progress over distance at a glance and is a significant step backward in data visualization.

These issues make the app feel broken and unreliable for experienced users. I request that these bugs be logged for the development team, particularly the data syncing issues and the UI regressions in activity tracking.

[Wayren]

https://www.androidpolice.com/fitbits-ai-coach-way-more-personal-useful/


Still no workouts for me. Apparently it's now so personal it doesn't even work. 😂

[Bruceriv68]

I just got the latest update with the  new guided workouts and elimination of weekly fitness plans.

I like the guides with the rest timers. There should be a rest timer between sets. 

There is a problem with workouts being counted twice between the workout recorded by watch and the guided workout on the phone. Previously you could link a phone planned workout to another activity recorded by the phone. I don't see that as an option any longer. The result is that some metrics like cardio points are getting double counted. Deleting one of the workouts does not update the Cardio Points.

Did the Health Connect integration disappear with this latest update? I don't see anywhere to view Health Connect data in the latest version. The AI also doesn't seem to see any Health Connect data despite all permissions being correct.

It would be nice if there was somewhere to see the details of all the changes with each update so we don't need to keep trying to figure out what has changed. 

[RiekoC]

Hello @Bruceriv68 

There are 2 pinned posts in the Public Preview forum that are routinely updated that you might want to keep monitoring:

What's new in Fitbit app Public Preview 

Current feature status in Preview