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What the AI Coach Can and Cannot See

A candid list of what the model has access to, what it cannot infer, and why sleep, soreness, HR, and life stress are part of the question.

Topic: model limits · Reviewed 2026-07-22

Key points

  • The coach reads your history, your goal, your reference pace, and your load trend — nothing else by default.
  • Sleep, soreness, illness, and life stress are inputs you provide in chat; the coach cannot infer them silently.
  • Heart rate, sleep, and wearable data are not read automatically; you choose what to surface in chat.
  • When the boundary is unclear, the coach picks the conservative session and asks for more context.
  • Tell the coach what you have not told it yet — that is the single highest-leverage habit for safer output.

Sources and further reading

  1. NHS — Sleep and TirednessReference for sleep's effect on training response, used to set conservative defaults when sleep is poor.
  2. Cleveland Clinic — Delayed Onset Muscle SorenessReference for the time course of muscle soreness and how it changes what the coach should prescribe.
  3. Mayo Clinic — Exercise and ImmunityReference for the relationship between training load and immune response, used as a conservative signal.