The AI Coach is capable of creating a tailored plan featuring weeks of customizable workouts, in addition to offering enhanced insights for health, sleep, and fitness.
Key details:
– The preview of the Fitbit Personal Health Coach will be available starting Tuesday, October 28, initially for “adult Fitbit Premium users on Android in the U.S.”
– You will chat with the AI Coach in the Fitbit app regarding your objectives, and it will formulate a multi-week plan that you can adjust using AI commands.
– Additionally, you can inquire with the Fitbit Coach about your health and sleep, pertaining to your data patterns and comparisons with others.
– The full rollout of the Health Coach begins in 2026 for Pixel Watch and Fitbit devices.
Fitbit is undergoing a significant update, the first since the 2023 Material You redesign, focusing on a conversational AI that creates tailored training plans and introducing new Insight tabs utilizing graphs and LLM text to illustrate your health, sleep, and fitness patterns. Android Fitbit Premium users will have the initial access.
Launching in Public Preview tomorrow, the Fitbit Personal Health Coach will present the same health and fitness data as previously — such as Cardio Load, Steps, Daily Readiness, Sleep Score, and more — but in easily understandable widget formats, highlighting weekly or monthly trends.
Most notably, the Public Preview kicks off with a 5–10 minute conversation where you assist the integrated AI coach in “understanding your motivations and goals.” It can then generate a personalized, week-to-week plan that significantly surpasses the existing daily AI running suggestions; it can focus on a variety of sports and develop workouts from “over 1,000” potential exercises.
How the plans for the Fitbit Personal Health Coach function:
Fitbit aimed to create an “agentic health coach” capable of crafting a multi-week workout plan for any fitness objective, while also enabling users to modify their plan in response to unforeseen injuries, travel, busy workdays, or any other circumstances. It’s “built on Gemini,” but employs “different models” based on context instead of relying on just one version like 2.5 Pro or Flash.
The Fitbit Coach can design a marathon training plan aimed at a specific date — similar to other fitness applications — with up to six weeks of workouts at a stretch, including cross-training workouts across a broad range of sports. Fitbit states it is “working on” integrating a “further outlook” to support long-term plans.
What’s even more intriguing is that your Fitbit plan does not have to be overly focused or precise. It can be to “prepare for ski season” or “improve as a trail runner.” The AI will leverage this data to create workouts that engage relevant muscle groups.
A Fitbit representative demonstrated his personal Gemini-generated plan, which included a suggested “Skip Prep Power Circuit” for that day. It featured specific exercises like Leg Blasters and Jump Squats, and the user could modify the number of repetitions, request the AI to select new exercises targeting the same muscle groups, or view videos demonstrating proper form. You confirm each exercise as complete in the app upon finishing.
During the onboarding process, Fitbit will inquire about the exercise equipment you have access to, such as a Peloton or dumbbells. It will utilize that context when assigning you particular activities. However, if you are traveling, you can “Adjust workout” and instruct the AI Coach to “Create a 30-minute upper body workout I can do in my hotel room,” providing a new activity in just moments.
The same applies if you are unwell, injured, or unable to reach the gym that day. Fitbit’s adaptability means you cannot simply claim you lack time or the ability for your intended workout; it can always suggest something new that aligns with your goals.
All the other capabilities or limitations of the Fitbit Personal Health Coach:
You can access your Gemini app right now, pose the question “Why am I so tired?” and receive a general explanation with several possibilities. However, if you ask that question within the new Fitbit app, it will present a targeted response, referencing your circadian rhythm, consistency, duration in specific stages, and how others in your demographic typically experience fatigue.
This is what differentiates the new Fitbit Personal Health Coach as more beneficial than other LLMs: The relevance to your individual situation. You can request a summary of what it knows about you and receive a comprehensive text overview of information, or inquire about your trends for a particular data point like HRV.
Even if you’re unsure about what to ask, the Fitbit app will feature customized “insight” widgets displaying helpful information related to your health, sleep, and fitness trends, as demonstrated in the examples below. We’ll need to evaluate its practical effectiveness, but in theory, Fitbit will guarantee you comprehend the reasons behind the improvements or declines in your health metrics.
One aspect the new Fitbit app does not enhance is nutrition. While food and water logging are components of the existing app, the Preview lacks a Nutrition tab or trends as of now. Fitbit has stated they will be “bringing
