Coaching prompts that work
Your AI already knows how to coach. These prompts point it at your real data. Steal them verbatim.
Reference
None of these prompts are special phrasing tricks. What makes them work is that your AI can check them against your actual profile, equipment, and history through the MCP server, instead of guessing.
Plan a training block
“Plan my next four weeks. Half marathon on October 12, strength Tuesdays and Thursdays, one full rest day a week.” Dates, constraints, and goals in one message beat ten rounds of clarification.
Adapt around life
Set your status first (sick, injured, traveling, on break), then: “I set my status to traveling through Friday. Rework this week around hotel gyms.” Your AI is required to plan around a non-ok status, so the status update does real work, not just a note to yourself.
Ask for a review
“Read my last three weeks and tell me if I’m progressing. Look at my effort ratings and where I deviated from the plan.” The planned-versus-actual log is what makes this answer honest instead of generic encouragement.
Point it at your notes
Notes you dictate mid-workout are timestamped to the set or segment you were on. “Check my notes from Tuesday before you plan legs” turns a mumbled observation, caught in the moment, into next week’s adjustment.
Make it concrete
Your AI can see your equipment. “Only plan loads I can actually build with my plates” and “keep intervals to speeds my treadmill can hold” both work, because the data is there to check against, not just take on faith.
Why this works
Every one of these prompts leans on something Parameter exposes through the MCP server: your profile and goals, your equipment inventory, your history, and your notes. A generic AI coach can talk about training principles. Yours can look at what you actually did last Tuesday before it answers.