Fitbit is introducing an AI-powered personal health coach built on Google's Gemini model and integrated into a redesigned Fitbit app. The coach generates weekly customized routines, detailed workouts, and workout targets tailored to individual health goals. Workouts adapt using real-time sensor data, such as modifying intensity after poor sleep. Users can proactively inform the coach about illness, injuries, or new goals for adjusted recommendations. The coach flags observable trends like improved sleep quality to provide context for raw wearable metrics. The approach emphasizes converting abundant data into actionable, personalized coaching rather than simple summaries.
On paper, Fitbit's health coach isn't offering anything a dozen other health and fitness tech companies haven't already promised. It's a chatbot built off Gemini that lives in a spiffy, redesigned Fitbit app (now with dark mode!). Each week, it builds custom routines with detailed workouts and workout targets based on your personal health goals. Those workouts will adjust based on your real-time data.
I'm not a fan of AI health and fitness features. Not only do they regurgitate Captain Obvious-level summaries of what you just did, but the "insights" are so generalized that a Google search is often more helpful. So it was with great skepticism that I walked into a demo to learn about Fitbit's forthcoming AI-powered personal health coach. To my surprise, I left cautiously curious about where Fitbit is going.
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