AI Coach

What it is

A coaching dashboard that runs on your phone. It looks at your training history, finds the changes that matter, and turns them into short signals. Each signal tells you what data set it off. Nothing runs in the cloud. No language models. No data leaves your phone. It is all local pattern-spotting on your own log.

What’s free

Every Kinoku user gets two parts of the Coach screen, on every tier:

• Tomorrow’s Focus: One thing worth a thought today, drawn from your last 7 days of training. It reads where you sit on the fitness-fatigue curve (peaked, fresh, steady, overreaching, or a rest day). It shows its reasons, and you can tap through to the Training Load chart.
• Weekly Recap: A Sunday roundup of your total volume, top PRs, run distance, and a note for the week ahead.

This is not a trimmed-down taste of a paid feature. It is the real start of the coaching system, free for good.

What Pro adds

Three more parts sit on top of the free Coach screen:

• Top Signals: A short list of what stands out right now. Volume spikes, fewer sessions, recovery debt, RPE drift. Each one shows the window it read and why it came up. (RPE means how hard a set felt, on a scale of 1 to 10.)
• Lift Intelligence: A closer look at each lift, with an 8-week trend line for your top 3 exercises. It uses your weight training only. Running and cardio data sit elsewhere.
• Run Intelligence: A pace trend line (faster runs point up), your VO2max trend, a pacing score, and your best efforts by distance. It reads any GPS run you have logged. (VO2max is a fitness estimate from your runs.)

What Elite adds

A fourth part, Patterns, plus a bump to Lift Intelligence:

• Patterns: Long-range reads on how you train. Your peak-performance windows, which days of the week work best for you, how your training phases play out, and which lifts you tend to pair.
• Lift Intelligence (expanded): Trend lines for up to 6 exercises instead of the top 3.

Synthesis and Forecast (Pro and Elite)

Each signal type has its own engine (lift, run, swim, cycle). On top of those, Kinoku adds a layer that compares signals across engines. It can spot a pattern that no single engine would see on its own. There are two kinds.

Synthesis joins signals from a few sources into one note. Say your resting heart rate is low and your HRV has dropped for days. Kinoku reads that as a possible illness and merges it into one “listen to your body” note. Or your gym volume jumps, your run miles jump, and your Form Band shows strain. Those three become one note about load across both. When several recovery signals line up, you see a green-light note for an easier day.

Forecast looks one to three days out. A few days of rest debt can flag an “overreach may be coming” note for the day after tomorrow. A run of weekend long runs plus a heavy gym day on the calendar can flag load that piles up.

Elite adds a few more forecast types that take the most work to compute: shifts between cycle phases, turning points in your strength trend over many weeks, and synthesis notes that draw on more than three sources at once.

The “Why?” panel

Every synthesis, forecast, and cycle note has a small ⓘ button. Tap it and a panel opens with the full story. You see which inputs fired, what their values were, how sure the engine is, and which engine made the call. Nothing is a black box. If you do not agree with a note, the panel shows the reasoning. Then you can go with your own read or the data’s.

The “supplemental” part

Kinoku will never tell you to skip a workout, change a program, or set aside your own judgment. It shows the data and steps back. The choice is yours.

That is why I call it “supplemental intelligence.” It is not an “AI coach” that acts smarter than you. It is not an “AI that replaces your trainer.” Kinoku shows the patterns a good coach would catch from your full history, and it tells you why each one came up. You make the call.

Want even more depth?

The Elite Analytics Hub is a separate screen with 20+ advanced features: DOTS strength score, muscle balance radar, ACWR injury risk, RPE drift alerts, and autoregulation. Coach is the simple daily view. Elite Analytics is the deep-dive workshop. Two screens for two moments.