Google Unveils AI-Powered Personal Health Coach for Fitbit, Revolutionizing Fitness Tracking

Google announces new AI-powered personal health and fitness coach for Fitbit | TechCrunch

At its Made by Google event on Wednesday, the company announced a new AI-powered personal health coach built with Gemini that's coming to Fitbit. The tech giant says the new personal health coach is a fitness trainer, sleep coach, and wellness advisor all in one. Google plans to roll out a preview of the personal health coach as part of Fitbit Premium in October in the redesigned app available with the latest Fitbit trackers, Fitbit smart watches, and Pixel Watches. The personal health coach learns your preferences as you share them and also takes your real-time metrics from your Fitbit or Pixel Watch into account. Plus, it can get information from a smart weight scale or glucose monitor. With the new AI coach, users will be able to create a custom routine after chatting about their goals, preferences, and equipment. The AI coach will then build a personalized fitness plan with workout suggestions and targets. As you do your workouts, the coach will adjust your workout plans based on real-time data and insights in order to help you meet your goals. For example, if you wake up with a low readiness score because of a night of insomnia, the coach will suggest changes to your weekly plan to help you recover. If life gets in the way of your weekly plans, you can connect with the AI coach to adjust your plans and get advice. For example, if you hurt your back, you can tell the coach to adjust your workout. In addition, the AI coach will look at your sleep and give insights into how to improve your sleep quality over time. Google notes that new advanced algorithms will allow the AI coach to better understand a user's sleep duration and stages. The AI coach will also help users determine how much sleep they actually need in order to perform their best by creating a personalized schedule that adapts to their daily activity levels. Google notes that users can ask the AI coach to get personalized, science-backed answers. For example, they can ask things like, "Should I get an extra hour of sleep or work out tomorrow?" or "What are the best exercises for weight loss?" The new AI coach will live in the redesigned Fitbit app, which Google says has been reimagined with coaching and AI at its core. The redesigned app includes more intuitive data visualization, improved syncing, dark mode, and more. Google also announced on Wednesday that it's bringing on NBA star Stephen Curry as a "performance advisory" to provide feedback for the tech giant's products.

The Fitbit App Is Turning Into an AI-Powered Personal Health Coach

All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. Learn more. Fitbit's smartphone app has undergone several redesigns over the past two years, and now there's another big one coming in October, timed to the launch of the newly announced Pixel Watch 4. Launching as an opt-in review (an open beta), the design centers on Google's AI-powered Personal Health Coach, built with Gemini. The entire app has been rebuilt from the ground up with the new AI coaching feature. Andy Abramson, director of product management at Google, says the redesign also offers easier app navigation, better data visualization, improved syncing between wearable devices, and (finally) a dark mode. Those are all purportedly common user suggestions from existing Fitbit customers. This Personal Health Coach feature is available only to Fitbit Premium subscribers. The idea behind the assistant -- which doesn't quite have a personality or even a name -- is to let users ask anything and everything about health and fitness and receive personalized guidance thanks to the 24/7 health data collected by your Fitbit wearable or Pixel Watch. During the onboarding, the coach will ask you questions so it can better understand your preferences and equipment, but this is a conversation that will continually evolve. When the coach presents your data with insights, like your sleep score from the night before or the data from your most recent workout, you can start a conversation, and that data will be incorporated into the coach's responses. That conversation could then include tailoring the workouts for the week if your sleep score wasn't great. If you're just not feeling up to it or are under the weather, just tell the coach, and it'll make tweaks to the workout plan and even follow up about how you're feeling after some time. These conversations resemble the chat window for when you talk to Gemini, and the responses can be verbose. Rishi Chandra, vice president for Health at Google, says the company had to balance a fine line between responses that were too short and weren't insightful, and extremely lengthy responses. Right now, you can only type to the Coach, but the experience is still in a preview state. Chandra says the company is exploring multimodal interactions -- think sending a video of your hotel gym equipment and asking for workout recommendations -- and potentially incorporating Gemini Live for a more real-time conversation experience. Much of the new Fitbit app experience also centers around customization. The Focus Metric at the top of the home page, which shows you your performance for the day, can be customized to show whatever data you prefer. Likewise, if the Coach serves you a workout plan for the week, just start a conversation to make any adjustments. The Coach also looks at your performance on a weekly basis rather than a single day, giving users more flexibility in hitting their goals. (That includes last year's Cardio Load feature on the Pixel Watch.) The Coach will be able to tap into your historical Fitbit data, however long it dates back. There's a Coaches Notes section that allows you to see everything you've ever told the Coach, and you can delete these at any time. Google still has to follow the data separation commitments established when it acquired Fitbit, meaning your health data cannot be used for Google Ads and is stored separately from other Google data.

Fitbit is getting an AI facelift - here's how the fitness tracker app is changing

New smartwatches are getting the AI training coach treatment, and Google's unveiling of its revamped Fitbit is no different. The tech giant announced that Fitbit is getting a facelift with the help of Gemini, Google's AI agent. Starting in October, Fitbit Premium will get its own personal AI health coach that is a "fitness trainer, a sleep coach, and a health and wellness advisor" packed into one wellness app. Also: I tried out Google Pixel Watch 4 - here's what excited me Smartwatches and wearables used to simply collect and present exercise and sleep data to users. Now, as brands beef up their services with AI, these devices are playing a larger role in the planning and execution of exercise habits or bedtime routine. These wearables -- and their AI -- have switched from passive recorders to active informers. This new AI-powered health coach, available within Fitbit's paid tier, tailors its activity and sleep guidance to your routine, conditions, and behavioral data it's collected. The coach begins by asking questions about the user, like their exercise frequency and ability, their routine, preferences, and available equipment. It then builds an exercise routine tailored to that input. After creating a plan, Fitbit's AI coach will adjust workout plans based on data like sleep, recovery, or strain. Plus, the user can make regular adjustments if, let's say, they sprain their ankle one week or have a busy work schedule that impacts their exercise routine the next. Also: Google Wallet adds support for another official state ID, bringing the total to 8 Fitbit's new functionalities are supplemented by hardware improvements in the Google Pixel Watch 4. The smartwatch, also unveiled at Google's Made By Google event, comes with upgraded sensors that more accurately detect sleep stages and temperature variations, two biomarkers that inform a person's overall daily readiness. The health app will give users more information about their overall sleep quality and provide daily and longitudinal insights into their sleep patterns. It will also now adjust its suggested sleep times based on a user's sleep need, like if they need more sleep after a long flight or less sleep after several days of inactivity. For the first time, users can ask the AI coach questions about their routine to receive personalized responses. Fitbit connects to Google Health Connect and HealthKit, two health data storage apps, and the AI coach will use the data users input to inform its health query responses. Large language models, like the type used in Google's AI health coach, require lots of data to offer accurate, helpful responses to queries. In its press release, Google said it will be releasing Fitbit Premium as a preview so users can help shape the app as the team makes user experience improvements. Whether or not Google will train its AI health coach on the data from Fitbit Premium previewers is another question. A Google spokesperson did not immediately respond to comment.

A closer look at Google's AI health coach and the redesigned Fitbit app

Alongside the Pixel Watch 4 (and family of Pixel 10 devices), Google also introduced a new "personal health coach" today at its Made By Google event. A preview of it will begin rolling out in October as part of the Fitbit app to Premium users in the US. The app is also getting a redesign which the company says will be "available with the latest Fitbit trackers, Fitbit smart watches and Pixel watches." The first thing Fitbit users may notice is a visual refresh. In place of the current organization system, the bottom of the screen will feature four tabs: Today, Fitness, Sleep and Health. The home page (Today) will still feature daily progress stats in the form of bars and rings at the top, though these are now customizable so you can display your favorite metrics there. Below this is a feed of your upcoming workouts, recent activity and progress reports served in individual cards that you can tap into for more information. This layout, with data visualizations at the top and a feed that follows, is the same across all four tabs. At a recent demo, the company's director of product management for Fitbit and health Andy Abramson showed us how his app surfaced his weekly cardio load in a ring, with bars to its right for his steps, readiness and sleep performance. "We call these our focus metrics," he said. These are in a color scheme that will be familiar to Fitbit users, with purple continuing to be the color representing sleep data and teal for steps. But there's a few more updates that Google says "address common user suggestions," and these include easier layouts, more intuitive data visualization, "improved syncing -- and of course, dark mode." Google didn't just give the Fitbit app a makeover. It said that coaching and AI were at the core of the redesign, and that the "entire app was rebuilt so the health coach can understand your goals, build your plan, contextualize your metrics and bring insights at the right moments." Abramson said that his team sought to figure out "How do we put the AI coach in every part of the app?" Instead of simply tucking the AI features into a dedicated tab, "We actually need to tie it together." To that end, a floating "Ask Coach" button is on every page of the app at the bottom right, and tapping it will take you into a conversation window with the Gemini-powered AI. This button is accessible across all the tabs in the updated app, and you can ask it questions about all the data you've provided to Fitbit. On your first time using the new app, you'll be prompted to have a conversation with the AI coach, where it will ask about your goals, available equipment and any preferences, injuries or other relevant medical history. Those will go into an area called "Coach Notes," that you can access in the Health tab and see what the app knows about you. There, you can delete things you don't want in there any more. If you only have a few free weights and a rowing machine, for example, the coach can build a custom plan that suggests a variety of weights-based exercises interspersed with sessions on your rower. But if you tell it at any point that you might be looking to incorporate outdoor runs into your routine, it can do so. Abramson told the app he wanted to get better at trail runs, for example, and in the version of the app I saw, that guidance affected a lot of the recommendations he was served. As he had told it he was traveling and had access to a hotel gym, it also suggested some activities on the facility's Peloton bike. In future versions of the AI coach, you might be able to integrate with Gemini Live and point your camera around your (or your hotel's) gym to get the system to identify what equipment is available and generate suggestions based on that. For now, all input to the app is limited to text, which means you may still need to know the difference between a barbell, a Y-bell and a dumbbell. The coach will build programs based on the info you supply, and these will come with detailed instructions and "metric targets that focus on weekly progression." If you're familiar with the cardio load and readiness score features that Google and Fitbit have rolled out in recent years, it's easy to see how the concept has been developing over time. Your activity progress should not be judged on a daily basis -- too many variables could affect whether you were able to get in a run or 10,000 steps on any given day. Instead, a more forgiving and holistic approach would be to consider weekly movement. If, like me, you tend to get in two cardio days, two strength days and one HIIT day a week, you won't be penalized for not getting cardio in on a weights day. Or say you put in too many hours at work one day, writing a long article late into the night. The AI coach will recognize that you didn't get as much sleep as usual and adjust your target cardio load accordingly. Google said the coach will make "real-time check-ins and adjustments" and that if you let the system know you've hurt your back, it will give you tips on how to modify your workouts. Part of the update to the Fitbit app includes new sleep algorithms that Google says make it more accurate, providing "a more precise understanding of your sleep duration and stages." The coach also guides you to get better sleep, by studying your patterns over the week and sharing insights on how to improve things over time. If it notices that on weekdays you take a longer time than usual to fall asleep, for example, it might recommend heading to bed or turning off your devices earlier. If it thinks you might be jetlagged, it could suggest sleep schedules to help you re-adjust to new timezones. Finally, the sleep coach might look at your energy expenditure each day and recommend a bedtime that could get you 30 minutes of extra rest to get over a particularly grueling workout you undertook that morning. In time, the Fitbit coach will get data from a variety of sources, as it will support Health Connect and HealthKit to get things like your glucose levels or your weight and body composition from your smart scale or other connected devices. Google also says that in addition to helping you get personalized insights based on your activity and rest, its AI coach can help make sense of an overwhelming amount of data noise. That's not just the information overload from all the different metrics your wearable might collect, but also the fact that there is a ton of content out there today that Google says is "written for everyone in general and no one in particular." Since it has access to a wealth of data about you and a gigantic knowledge base from the internet, the coach can filter out noise to give you pertinent answers to your questions. You can ask things like "I'm feeling stressed right now. What can I do?" or "What are the best exercises for weight loss" and, according to Google, "get truly personalized answers that are backed by science." The system will also serve up timely and regular reports on your performance and any trends or changes. Using AI to make sense of the overwhelming amount of data collected by our wearables seems like a smart approach, but it's not without its drawbacks or concerns. Will your sensitive information be safely guarded? What type of information will the AI Coach serve and how trustworthy is that guidance? Google appears to be attempting to get ahead of those concerns, saying it is "committed to building our personal health coach with leading industry experts and through scientific research." It's partnered with Stephen Curry "and his performance team," and is "working closely with our Consumer Health Advisory Panel, a diverse group of leading experts in medicine, AI and behavioral science." I think it's imperative that Google state very clearly that its AI Coach can not replace a doctor, a registered dietitian or a certified coach, and that it has guardrails in place to prevent aggressively pushing a person towards dangerous outcomes. The good news is, Google is well aware that it will have work to do, and is clear that it is "releasing this experience as a preview so you can help shape it as we make regular improvements." For now, the AI is designed to help with fitness and sleep insights and recommendations, though it's worth noting that Fitbit has historically considered a broader range of areas including mental health and menstrual cycles as essential components of overall wellbeing. In future, the AI Coach may also cover those types of data. If you're keen to test the redesigned Fitbit app and new personal health coach out, you'll have to be a Fitbit Premium subscriber, be based in the US and sign up to get notified when the preview is available in October.

The Pixel Watch 4's new Gemini-powered fitness coach brings personalized fitness guidance

Fitbit Premium members in the US can preview the AI Coach beginning October 2025. The Google Pixel Watch 4 has officially landed, and Google has introduced more than just sleeker hardware and the latest Wear OS 6. The company also announced one of the biggest Fitbit updates in years, including a brand-new Gemini-powered Personal AI Coach and a fully redesigned Fitbit app. The update aims to elevate Fitbit devices from passive trackers into always-on health and fitness companions that adapt to and guide users in real time.

4 things to consider before giving Fitbit and Gemini control of your fitness

The Fitbit Personal Health Coach is Google's latest effort to convince us that AI is helpful in every single aspect of our lives. Flippancy aside, using AI as your fitness coach could be beneficial, from it always being available to having a wealth of potential knowledge at its virtual fingertips. Making a fitness plan, finding the motivation to follow it, and ensuring you're always challenging yourself are very hard to do on your own. AI chatbots, for all their problems, also do a good job of acting "on your side," which is exactly what you want in a motivator. Does this mean it's worth using? Here are four things to think about before deciding to let Gemini help with your health and fitness goals. What is the Fitbit Personal Health Coach? Google describes the new Personal Health Coach feature as: A fitness trainer, a sleep coach, and a health and wellness advisor, all working together to help you be your best, whether that means maximizing performance on the court, in the office, or at home with family. The AI will watch over the data collected by your Fitbit or Pixel Watch, supplement it with data from devices like smart scales, and then present trends and offer suggestions on how to improve. You'll be able to ask it questions about things like getting better sleep or losing weight. On the fitness side, the AI will build custom, personalized routines with weekly progression and adjust them based on real-time data. Through the chat system, you can also tell the AI to change the plan, depending on your requirements. Finally, it will provide similar insight and advice on how to improve your sleep, allowing you to work on both recovery and fitness. It's part of Fitbit Premium To enjoy the insights, advice, and motivation promised by the Fitbit Personal Health Coach, you're going to have to pay for it. The feature will only be available to Fitbit Premium subscribers. This means it'll cost $10 per month or an $80 up-front cost for a year's access. Fitbit Premium already provides a degree of what the Health Coach offers, including a library of workouts, a morning energy score based on sleep and activity, the ability to set different daily goals, and further insights into metrics like heart rate, calorie burn, and sleep. If you're already paying for Fitbit Premium, it's safe to assume you want the additional insights and features, and the Personal Health Coach seems like a great addition to the fairly basic extras already available. However, if Fitbit Premium hasn't enticed you already, there may not be enough in the Health Coach to do so now either. Does AI really know me? Here's where the problems start. For the AI to provide helpful, actionable, and realistic targets, it has to know you well and be in a position to give you meaningful information and advice. Unfortunately, this may not be possible, and it may lead to the chatbot rarely being helpful. It's not the first of its kind, and workouts created by ChatGPT for someone training for a marathon were described as "boring" in a recent Time article, and the exercises added to the sessions were uninspired, leading to the author deviating from the plan. This makes paying for such a service less attractive. While the Fitbit Health Coach will have access to health metrics ChatGPT did not, there are still concerns over it not fully understanding how fit you are, whether past injuries may cause issues with recommended exercise plans, and if your relationship with food, exercise, and knowing in-depth data points is healthy. The chatbot can only make assumptions based on the data it's given, along with information it learns online. Because Google does not want to find itself in a situation where Gemini has caused an injury after making a recommendation, its workout plans may end up being generic, and its advice intentionally vague. Will a human personal trainer be the better choice? If you want a structured workout plan and are willing to pay for it, a personal trainer may be a better choice than the Gemini-powered Health Coach. A personal trainer talking to Healthline about ChatGPT's ability to create workout plans called the tool fine for "topline guidance" but warned it wouldn't be able to "consider individual goals, physical condition, medical history, and physical limitations to craft tailored plans that maximize results while minimizing risks." For any fitness plan to work, you've got to stick to it, and that means it must be achievable and challenging, which Gemini may not be able to establish from the data it collects. It will also have to make its recommendations within the confines of not wanting to push someone into doing workouts that aren't suitable. However, its ability to understand when you may need to prioritize rest and recovery may go some way to helping you stay on track, provided you feed it this information. Google sums up how we should think about the Health Coach before starting on a fitness journey with it, saying in the fine print: This product is intended for general wellness and fitness purposes only. Always consult with a healthcare provider before making changes regarding your health. Do I want to wear a smartwatch all the time? To inform you about fitness levels, recovery time, and the best exercise plan, Gemini and the Fitbit Health Coach must have access to all the relevant data. For example, if it's missing information on how you slept, it may not be able to recognize when you need to rest, or if you're primed for a big workout. What this means is you have to commit to wearing the Pixel Watch or a Fitbit all the time. Otherwise, Gemini will be missing crucial data to build its plans or to provide advice. It takes us back to whether the AI really knows us, as for it to have any chance of doing so, we have to give it permanent access to all the right data points. While this isn't so hard during the day, it is less convenient at night, as not everyone likes to wear a watch when sleeping. Which conveniently leads us on to the final point you should consider before going all-in with Fitbit and Gemini. What are the alternatives? The Fitbit Health Coach is only available on Fitbit devices and the Pixel Watch, which does limit it somewhat. Neither Google nor Fitbit has a smart ring in the range, which some may find is a far more preferable health and fitness tracker to wear 24 hours a day. The Oura Ring 4 isn't all that different in price from the Pixel Watch 4, and its $6 monthly subscription is cheaper than Fitbit Premium. It has an AI advisor built in, which can provide advice on your health and wellbeing, and the smart ring can track some basic activity too. If Fitbit Health Coach sounds like a bit much for your lifestyle, it may be the better choice. Also consider the Samsung Galaxy Ring, especially if you already use a Samsung phone. The Samsung Health app is easy to use and provides plenty of helpful data, plus there's a selection of workouts and other training plans available. If you wear a Galaxy Watch 8, the recently introduced Running Coach feature uses AI to create a custom, personalized plan to start running or improve your basic ability. The Samsung Health app is free to use, and Samsung also has plans to introduce its own AI-based healthcare assistant later this year, and has indicated it won't require a subscription. Sign up for Fitbit Health Coach If Fitbit Health Coach sounds like it's still the best fit for you, it'll be available as a beta service in October for Fitbit Premium subscribers, and you can sign up here to be alerted when it's released.

Google is partnering with Steph Curry and rolling out a personalized AI fitness coach -- here's how to access it

Personalized AI fitness coaching is the hot trend in consumer wearables, so it's not surprising to hear that Google is launching a Gemini wellness coach this fall for Fitbit Premium subscribers. The announcement came shortly after the unveiling of the new Pixel Watch 4. Not only that, the tech giant has partnered with basketball superstar Stephen Curry, who will act as a performance advisor for the feature. For those who need a refresher, Google owns Fitbit, and ever since last year's Pixel Watch 3 launch, the Fitbit app has become the de facto fitness app for the Pixel Watch line. While the app is free to use, some higher-end features are paywalled, and the new AI coach will be one of them. Fitbit Premium costs $9.99 a month or $79.99 for the year; however, lots of Fitbit and Pixel products come with a free six-month subscription. Either way, you'll need Fitbit Premium (and be U.S.-based) to check out the new personalized AI health coach, which, according to Google, is "built by Gemini, backed by science, tailored to you." What does that mean? Google says that the tool will help users come up with customized workout plans based on their training goals and fitness level. Hmm, sounds a little bit like Apple's Workout Buddy and Samsung's Running Coach. The AI coach will also be able to answer questions like, 'How can I fight jet lag?' While the announcement of Google's Gemini fitness coach was somewhat vague on details, outside of the fact that Stephen Curry is advising, it sounds like it won't be exclusively available on the latest Pixel Watch 4. The real question is, will non-Pixel Watch users be able to access it from the best Fitbit devices? Starting in October, Fitbit Premium members will be able to "preview" the new wellness coach feature from within a completely redesigned Fitbit app, suggesting that a full launch of the tool is still further out on the horizon. In addition to a Gemini-back workout coach, the Pixel Watch 4 also uses Gemini to recognize a user's favorite forms of physical activity. The more you manually log your favorite workouts, the better your watch will be able to predict them without your input, saving you the hassle of manually starting tracking. Gemini can even recommend workouts based on your favorite activities. Note that these features are only available on the Pixel Watch 4, but are not paywalled behind Fitbit Premium.

Google didn't show its AI health coach in action - here are 5 features I hope we'll see when it drops

The reveal of the Google Pixel Watch 4 was the main bone thrown to Google's health and fitness ecosystem at this year's Made by Google 2025 live event and the Pixel 10 launch. The watch was undeniably impressive - starting at $399 / £349 / AU$579, it includes all-new features like on-wrist Google Gemini AI, all-new workouts, replaceable parts, and a satellite SOS service. We can't wait to review the watch in full, but you can read our early Google Pixel Watch 4 review for our first impressions. However, another fitness feature was briefly mentioned alongside the new hardware: a personal AI health coach. During a segment with celebrity Peloton trainer Cody Rigsby, it was announced via a stock-footage sizzle reel that the health coach, powered by Google Gemini, was "always available, always adapting, backed by science, and uniquely tailored to you". It'll begin previews in the US in October, presumably rolling out to other regions shortly after, as part of a redesigned Fitbit app. Aside from touching on performance, health and wellness, and sleep (and featuring NBA all-star Stephen Curry as Google's 'performance advisor' whatever that means), very little was said about what the Coach would actually do or look like. In fact, we got more information from a YouTube video which was shared by Google, but not publicized or shown during the presentation itself. I've embedded it below. Clearly, it shows that the user can ask questions about their health and fitness, and the AI coach will pull data from their Fitbit and contextual information (such as the user tweaking their back) to provide contextual fitness advice, such as altering their sleep schedule or replacing a high-impact cardio session with a gentler yoga flow. However, considering how much was shown about other Google Pixel devices and features during the live event, the health coach was barely touched on. I'd love to know more; how is the AI health coach "backed by science"? What features will it have? Will it interface with the Pixel Watch 4? What does 'Stephen Curry, Performance Advisor' actually look like? What will its name be? Below are some of the features I think the AI health coach needs to adopt (read that as 'steal from other apps') to be a truly revolutionary tool and an industry leader. Forget celebrity endorsements and flashy sizzle-reels The Google Pixel Watch 4 may have Gemini on-wrist, but the vast majority of users of even the best Fitbits will be sporting devices with no AI capacity. While the AI assistant is likely to process and answer questions on your phone, it would be cool if certain features, such as any workouts or running routes the AI comes up with, could be pushed to your Fitbit watch to follow along on-wrist. This would require the AI to first devise the plan, then export the plan into a format the watch can use, then push the plan to your watch. We imagine it would then remind you to sync your watch again to ensure the plan loads, but this would allow Fitbit or older Pixel Watch users to still use the AI service to its fullest extent just by subscribing to Fitbit Premium - which, of course, is where the money is. While the AI health coach video above shows the AI suggesting tweaks to its training plan, such as replacing a high-impact cardio session with a low-intensity yoga class to support the user's bad back, it stopped short of suggesting adaptive training plans of the kind used by AI-powered training apps such as Runna. Truly adaptive training plans take into account your performance as well as your preferences: if you're doing better than expected and hitting goals beyond what your training plan had prescribed for you, it can intelligently recognize this and up the intensity. For example, Samsung has 140 different running coach plans for all sorts of distances and fitness levels, automatically shifting you to easier or more challenging plans based on your performance during workouts. If you're struggling with the speed and distance Samsung recommends, it'll make things easier next time. Cardiovascular training is easy for fitness watches to record because it uses metrics the watch can record on its own, such as heart rate, distance, time, and speed. Making a fitness watch or app relevant for strength training has always been a challenge: a watch can make a good guess at the number of reps in a set, but there's no way for it to automatically record what kind of weight the user is picking up. Most weightlifting apps take the form of a combination journal and workout planner. PUSH, which we rated the best app for strength training, offers AI-generated workout plans, a built-in rest timer, journal functionalities, and even recommends 'plateau-breaker' exercises. If you find yourself recording the same amount of weight on a particular exercise, PUSH will recommend a move that will help you build the strength to clear the bar next time. We'd love it if the AI fitness coach could recommend similar exercises, do so intelligently, and prompt users to try them. Very few people would think to ask Gemini "what's a plateau-breaker exercise for a 70kgs bench press?" but might give an exercise a go if prompted to do so. When it comes to health, exercise is only one-third of the battle, with the other two-thirds being sleep and nutrition. Each affects the other. Nutrition suffers the same problem as weightlifting: the need to manually record a number, be it calories, grams of protein, or something else. The success of apps like MyFitnessPal was down to attempting to automate the process by having an automatic calorie estimation for the most common foods, or the ability to scan barcodes to provide nutritional information. There are quite a few third-party apps now that offer, or promise, calorie estimation of a meal via a quick photograph of a plate. This is not a perfect process, and many of these apps seem more than a little suspect and data-hungry to me. But with Google Gemini and all the image-recognition photograph tools it enables, there's an opportunity for Google to incorporate something really interesting here: an easy way for people to monitor their nutrition, and add their macros and calorie counts to the vast amounts of information the AI health coach draws from. Simply take a photograph of your meal, tell the AI what it is, and it could automatically estimate nutritional stats. We saw the AI chatbot give encouraging advice to someone who had hurt their back, which has given us some indication that context is key for the Fitbit AI health coach. But every suggestion we've seen so far is for people who fall into some degree of normalcy: those who would benefit from, or are able to take part in, regular exercise such as walking and running workouts. But what about the outlying points on the graph? People who are very underweight, or very overweight, the elderly, or perhaps those confined to a wheelchair. Will the health coach be sufficiently science-backed to cater to the marginalized as well as the majority? We hope so.

A new, personal health coach is coming to Fitbit

Summaries were generated by Google AI. Generative AI is experimental. Today we're introducing a new AI-powered personal health coach, built with Gemini. It's a fitness trainer, a sleep coach and a health and wellness advisor -- all working together to help you be your best -- whether that means maximizing performance on the court, in the office or at home with family. We set out to build a new kind of coach: world-class expertise that's always available whenever you need it. It constantly adapts based on your personal health and wellness metrics and is uniquely tailored to your goals and real-life circumstances. In October, we'll begin rolling out a preview of the personal health coach as part of Fitbit Premium in the redesigned app available with the latest Fitbit trackers, Fitbit smart watches, and Pixel Watches. We all want the energy and focus to feel our best; the personal health coach acts as a fitness trainer that builds a plan around what you want to achieve while taking into account the rest of your needs.

Fitbit Finally Gets New App With Dark Mode

We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. As a part of the wave of Pixel hardware announcements from today, Google also previewed the future of Fitbit that includes both a redesigned app (dark mode!) and their new personal health coach, which is powered by AI and will attempt to "help you be your best." New Fitbit app with dark mode: Before we get into the health coach part of this, I have to talk about the new Fitbit app. Google says the new Fitbit app has been "reimagined with coaching and AI at its core." That's great and all, but you'll likely be more impressed to learn that it has major visual improvements that took into account a lot of user suggestions, like more intuitive data visualization, easier layouts, improved syncing, and the dark mode that was needed years ago. Fitbit's Personal Health Coach: Alright, with that big news out of the way, let's talk about this new personal health coach. Powered by AI, this new coach will attempt to help you reach goals, constantly adapt to your health and wellness metrics, and be available at all times. What does that look like? Well, it starts with that redesigned Fitbit app that was built to showcase this coach. But to get started, you'll have to tell it what your goals and preferences are, so that it can build a custom fitness plan for you. It can then adjust workout plans based on real-time data and daily insights, like your daily readiness score. Google even suggests you talk to the AI coach (there's an "Ask Coach" button) when you get an injury, so that it can further adjust plans or tweak workouts around it. Of course, sleep is always going to be one of the (or maybe the) most important pieces of a wellness journey and the personal health coach will utilize new sleep algorithms to help you further understand its metrics (like duration and stages). The coach can spot patterns on how to improve sleep and suggest a sleep schedule, where it recommends additional sleep to rest from harder workouts. Finally, the wellness piece of this AI-coach comes from learning aspects about your life from your other connected apps or hardware (like a smart scale). You can also just ask it questions to get answers about relieving stress or targeted workouts to lose weight, etc. It will proactively share trends about you too, with suggestions along the way to further improve on your fitness and wellness journey. Google plans to start rolling out the personal health coach within Fitbit Premium in October. It should arrive as a part of the fully redesigned Fitbit app that we're just going to assume lands with the launch of Pixel Watch 4 at that time. It should also work with the latest Fitbit trackers and smartwatches.

Pixel Watch Will Soon Provide Tailored Suggestions With New Health Coach

Fitbit app has also been redesigned with focus on AI and more features Google unveiled several new products at its Made by Google event in New York on Wednesday. While the Pixel 10 series was the main highlight, several other announcements also took place during the launch event. Among them is a new health coach for the Pixel Watch, Fitbit trackers, and Fitbit smartwatches, powered by artificial intelligence (AI). As per the company, it can create custom routines, tailor workouts based on data, and provide sleep quality insights. Alongside, the Fitbit app has also been redesigned to have coaching and AI at its core. Google's New AI-Powered Health Coach Google shared details about its new AI-powered Health Coach in a blog post. It will begin rolling out as a preview with the Fitbit Premium subscription in the redesigned Fitbit app for trackers, smartwatches, and the Pixel Watch beginning October. Health Coach is powered by the company's Gemini AI model and functions as a fitness trainer, sleep coach, and health and wellness advisor -- all-in-one. It can analyse data and adapt itself based on the user's personal health and wellness metrics, providing tailored goals based on real-time metrics collected from Fitbit or Pixel Watch. To begin with, the health coach can build a personalised fitness plan based on information including goals, preferences, and available equipment. It emphasises on weekly progression and suggests detailed workout plans and target metrics accordingly, as per Google. Further, users can also fine-tune their workouts based on how they feel on a daily basis. As per the company, the AI-powered health coach builds upon Fitbit's sleep tracking features and adds more capabilities. It is said to have new sleep algorithms which can provide improved understanding of sleep duration and stages. There are sleep quality insights as well. Based on data, it can spot patterns and provide insights on how to improve sleep quality. It also provides a personalised schedule which adapts to daily activity levels and change the amount of sleep required. As per Google, the health coach's suggestions will improve as it learns the user's prfererences over time. There is support for Health Connect and HealthKit as well, onboarding support for smart scale, glucose data analysis. Apart from this, Google is also redesigning the Fitbit app to have AI at its core. The company claims it enables the health coach to understand the user's goals, build their plan, contextualise their metrics, and provide insights. There are other subtl changes too, such as improved data visualisation, easy-to-read layouts, improved syncing, and finally, a dark mode.