AI Coach

What it is

Coach is a screen that reads your training history and writes short notes on what changed in it. The reading happens on your phone, and each note shows the numbers that set it off. Coach works from rules and math rather than a language model, so a note always points back at your own sets and runs. No Kinoku server stores your training history, though Android may still copy eligible app data into the backup held in your Google account.

What you see on each tier

Coach is a graduated feature, so two sections belong to everyone and Pro adds the longer reads on top.

Free covers the daily and the weekly view:

• Today’s Focus picks one useful read from recent training, names the reasons for it, and links out to the Training Form curve.
• Weekly Recap gathers the week’s volume, best lifts, and running distance, then names the pattern that stood out.

Both are whole Coach sections rather than a timed preview of something bigger.

Pro fills in six more:

• Active Alerts name recent changes such as load spikes, fewer sessions, recovery debt, or drift in your rate of perceived exertion (RPE). Each one shows the window it looked at.
• Lift Intelligence carries the trend and the recent sessions for up to six lifts.
• Run Intelligence covers pace and fitness trends, pacing context, and your best efforts by distance.
• Tomorrow’s Focus looks one day ahead and can name a built-in session that suits it.
• Patterns reaches further back for reads like peak windows, strong weekdays, and lift pairings.
• Synthesis and Forecast blend training, recovery, run, swim, or cycle inputs, and look one to three days ahead.

The Why panel

Every synthesis, forecast, and cycle note carries a Why panel that shows the working. Synthesis and Forecast need it most, because they reach one to three days ahead and so lean hardest on your trust. Open the panel on one and you get the inputs it read, plus the value of each. It also names the engine behind the note and how sure that note is. Reading a panel asks nothing of you, so you can look, disagree, and close it again.

Suggestions rather than orders

Coach lays out evidence and leaves the decision where it belongs. A note may observe that many athletes rest after a week shaped like yours, and no note says you have to.

Kinoku does have separate features that can shift a future plan or record a rest-day suggestion for you. Each one is opt in, each one can be undone, and a manual change always wins. We would rather name them here than let the site imply every smart feature is read-only.

Where the notes stay quiet

Coach measures your recent training against your own past, so a first week gives it almost nothing to work with. Thin data reads as silence instead of a firm guess, and that is the honest limit of the screen. Someone back after months away will watch the sections fill in over a few sessions.

Where it fits

Coach reads what just happened. Pro Analytics is the deeper screen for strength standards, lift trends, training balance, and load-spike context. The Kinoku Score folds the same signals into one number, and Smart Today turns the rotation you already follow into the day’s pick.

The free layer

Today’s Focus and Weekly Recap stay free at every tier, with no countdown behind them and no sample data standing in for yours. Pro adds Active Alerts, Run Intelligence, Patterns, the forecasts, and up to six Lift Intelligence cards. That split is where the line sits today, and the free half of Coach stays free whatever Pro gains later.