by Grant Paling. I wanted to dedicate a blog to reviewing the new AI Endurance features from a user perspective, not least because there has been so many (kudos to the team on that!) with velocity of releases really picking up these past months. So let’s get into it…

Plan system prompt: this one came out a while ago and is a really nice addition to planning, to allow you to personalise even more your training preferences whilst maintaining the structure that already existing in the Plan screen. You can see from my last blog that my AI coach was even coming back to reference that plan prompt in the coaching advice it gave me. A big thumbs up for this one!

Strength workouts: much awaited (by me at least) and well appreciated. I’d always mixed in my own strength workouts but a) that was then outside my coaching plan and b) it was just based on my own thoughts on what I should do.  Adding strength workouts was essential for the full triathlete experience, especially for older athletes where strength and conditioning gets even more vital. It also allows me to mix in my Zen8 trainer (now Zwim) and substitute one of their sessions for the swim strength focus session prescribed by AI Endurance.  Another super feature!

AI Endurance forum: not so much a feature in the app but an expansion towards creating a broader AI Endurance community. As a Product Manager by trade, I know how important user feedback is and this forum allows AI Endurance users to feedback directly to the team on common issues, feature requests and discuss best practices for using the app. Already seen some great things suggested (and already implemented off the back of it!)

Nutrition updates: I don’t personally use the nutrition part of the app much so I haven’t evaluated this one but chat can now help with workout or race fuelling planning. I definitely need to get on this (especially for workouts, racing I have pretty well refined – I’ll be testing this and feeding back to you all!).

B/C events can now be scheduled after A event: another addition that sees things from a user perspective and is right on the money. Much nicer for season planning and keeping everything in one place. I like to plan in blocks but to have events now ready and scheduled to build the next training block around is a nice little win.

AI chat improvements: this one is so good I dedicated a whole blog to it.  ut you’ll have to wait until my next blog for that. Stay tuned, you don’t want to miss that one!

Cross-conversation memory: see above. Super important development to build that AI coach with a knowledge base of you over time, just like a real coach would the more they have worked with you.

Availability Override and Block Days: I haven’t used this yet but I probably should have. We all have holidays, we all have weeks where life gets in the way and we know it’s going to. We have weeks where the extended family visit and apparently it’s not ok to just go out for a 2 hour bike ride while we have visitors (who knew?). I’ve liked since the beginning how AI Endurance was built with an appreciation for the limitations sometimes imposed on us by this thing we call…life! This allows you to factor these in, rather than just skipping workouts and your AI coach just thinking you have lost your mojo. You haven’t!

Workout compliance: really useful. In the original version of AI Endurance this was there and it went away and came back way better. Not just now compliance to workout categories (endurance, anaerobic etc.) like before but now compliance per workout, very transparently showing you those numbers upon which the AI coach is going to advise you based on how you are performing to plan. You can also use the AI chat to ask why you got that score if you’re not convinced (but more on that in the next blog). Double thumbs up for this one!

Check-in now in chat and Extended Thinking in chat: I will admit. I have not been using Check-in very much. Since day one, back in late 2023 when I signed up with AI Endurance, I just didn’t really find time for the Daily Check-in. I know. Stupid right? But part of the problem was that responses were very generic and if you always get the same answer you’re more inclined to only check in once in a while.

Auto-launching into chat after a check in is a small but vital change in addressing that behaviour. Now I use it almost every day, because I’m really getting something back. It’s interactive, and the AI Coach is telling me what is relevant based on that day, that situation, that recovery status, that upcoming double hard session and am I ready? All these types of conversations that really make the AI Coaching experience closer to real-life coaching than ever before.

And with that, it concludes my new features review and leaves a nice thread to follow into my next blog where I’ll go deeper into the chat functionality and give some practical examples of how I’ve been using it.

Until then, give those new features a try!

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