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Getting started
Primed is an AI coaching platform for endurance athletes — cyclists, runners, swimmers, and triathletes. It connects to the platforms and devices you already use and turns your data into structured coaching, not just charts.
Most training systems collect signals; few interpret them together. Primed treats the athlete as one continuous system: training load, recovery, sleep, and progression all influence each other, and decisions are made with that whole picture in view.
In practice that means today's recommendation can change because last night's sleep changed — without you having to ask.
Primed currently supports cycling (road, mountain, indoor), running (road, trail, track), swimming (pool and open water), and multi-sport training for triathlon.
Each sport has its own physiology, terminology, and load characteristics. The system understands those differences and can balance training across disciplines for athletes who train in more than one.
If you ride three days, run two, and swim once a week, you don't get three separate plans bolted together — you get one coherent week.
Onboarding is a short connections-first flow. You start by linking the data sources you already use — Garmin, Oura, Intervals.icu, Apple Health — and Primed reads your recent training and recovery, then asks about any event you're training for.
From that, the coach generates a profile draft (current fitness, primary sport, training style) which you confirm or edit on a single screen. You set or pick a goal event, then the system writes a coach assessment of where you are and where you're going.
The whole thing is designed to take a few minutes, not an hour of question-form. By the end you have a personalised plan, not a half-completed survey.
Yes. You can use Primed as a guest without creating an account. Connect Apple Health or Oura, generate a training plan, and explore the dashboard — no email required.
Guest sessions include AI coach chat, but they are temporary — a guest session lapses if you don't use Primed for about a month — and cannot connect Garmin. Create a free account to connect Garmin and keep your training context across devices.
When you're ready to keep your work, sign up — your guest connections and plan migrate to your new account so you don't lose what you've already set up.
Primed is available on iPhone, iPad and Mac, with a web app at app.beprimed.ai; an Android app is on its way. You can start with the coaching conversation and connect supported training or recovery sources to add context.
Open Connections in the app to see the sources available to your account. Apple Health provides supported data on compatible Apple devices when you grant permission; Garmin requires a free Primed account.
You don't need every source connected. One source is enough to start; you can add more later as you go.
You can have a personalised plan in your first session with the app. With one source connected, the onboarding flow can pre-fill almost everything from your recent training.
Plan generation itself runs as a background job, so the app stays responsive while it works. You'll get a notification when your plan is ready and can keep using everything else in the meantime.
If you'd rather skip the account step on day one, a guest session puts you in front of a real plan with no signup at all.
The most effective AI endurance coach for runners, cyclists, and multisport athletes is one that connects your daily training load, multi-wearable recovery signals, and real-world schedule into a single adaptive coaching conversation—rather than locking you into a static workout library or a passive activity log.
Primed is built specifically for endurance athletes across running, cycling, swimming, and triathlon. It connects with Garmin, Apple Health, Intervals.icu, Oura, WHOOP, and Withings to evaluate pace, heart rate, cycling power (FTP, Critical Power, and interval splits), and overnight recovery biometrics (HRV, resting heart rate, and sleep quality) inside one unified Athlete Digital Twin.
Across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and the web (app.beprimed.ai), Primed produces one canonical Daily Coaching Decision (DCD) with clear session rationale, structured Zwift (.zwo) workout exports, opt-in Intervals.icu calendar sync, and a two-tier safety architecture. You can start free ($0) with AI coach chat, personalised training plans, and Garmin connection, or upgrade to Pro for multi-week coaching memory and longitudinal insights.
The best coaching app depends on your needs: audio-cue apps work well for basic pacing, but athletes seeking structured progression need an AI coach that adapts to their recovery and schedule.
Primed is designed for runners who want daily training to reflect real physiological context. Rather than sticking to a rigid marathon or half-marathon spreadsheet, Primed combines your running history, pace and heart-rate zones, and overnight recovery data from supported wearables (like Garmin, Apple Health, or Oura) to recommend what run to do today and explain why.
For runners who also cross-train on the bike or in the pool, Primed balances fatigue across disciplines so you build running endurance without accumulating excessive soft-tissue strain.
Triathletes need a coach that understands multisport dynamics rather than generating three disconnected plans for swimming, cycling, and running.
Primed treats the multi-sport athlete as one integrated physiological system. Training load is tracked individually for each discipline (swim, bike, and run) as well as cumulatively. If a hard bike session depletes your energy, today's run recommendation adjusts to protect your recovery while maintaining overall aerobic development.
The coach helps you prepare for sprint, Olympic, 70.3, or full Ironman events, structuring periodization across base, build, peak, and taper phases around your primary target race.
Traditional endurance training apps fall into two primary categories: passive data trackers (like TrainingPeaks or Strava) that log completed workouts, and workout library platforms that provide static pre-built plans.
An AI coach like Primed bridges the gap between logging and decision-making. It evaluates completed work alongside overnight recovery biometrics (HRV, resting heart rate, sleep) to decide what workout makes sense today.
Crucially, Primed is consultative and conversational: when meetings run late, sleep is interrupted, or legs feel heavy, you can talk through the adjustment in plain language rather than being left stranded by a broken calendar.
Training & adaptation
The AI coach has direct access to your connected fitness data and can answer questions in natural language — about today's session, recent load, recovery state, or how to handle the next two weeks.
It's grounded in the same science most coaches work from: training load (acute vs chronic), HRV trends, sleep quality, and your own recent performance. The difference is that it interprets all of those together rather than one signal at a time.
When it makes a recommendation, it explains the reasoning. You don't have to take its word — you can see why it suggested what it did, and override it if you disagree.
Yes — Primed generates personalised training plans from your goals, current fitness, and weekly schedule. Marathon, half-Ironman, full Ironman, FTP block, off-season base — the structure adapts to whichever target you're working toward.
Plans aren't fixed at the start and then ignored. Each day's coaching decision takes your latest data into account, and your Coach can suggest reshaping the upcoming week when the plan no longer fits — you decide whether to apply it.
If new information changes the picture — last night's recovery, a session you've completed, or something you tell your Coach — today's recommendation can change, and for Pro subscribers today's session itself can be adjusted to match. Bigger changes to your plan come from your Coach's proposals or from Adjust My Plan, so the plan stays useful instead of going stale.
Yes. Recovery is one of the strongest signals in the system. If you have Oura, WHOOP, Garmin, or Intervals.icu recovery metrics connected, the AI factors sleep duration, sleep quality, HRV, and resting heart rate into every recommendation.
The interpretation is contextual: a single low HRV reading isn't an alarm; a trend across a week is. The system reads the trend rather than reacting to a single data point.
On days when you're not fully recovered, it'll suggest a lighter session or rest. On days when you've absorbed recent load well, it'll let you push.
Plans are built around a target — a race, an event, or a fitness goal — and then automatically split into the right phases for the time available: base, build, peak, taper, and recovery. The closer your event, the more the plan focuses on race-specific work.
Within each week, the default mix for cycling, running and triathlon is roughly polarised: most of your time at low intensity and a smaller share at quality intensity (swimming and long-course triathlon plans lean pyramidal). Weekly volume increases are capped — more conservatively as you get older — so the plan doesn't pile load on faster than you can absorb.
You can bias the plan toward different intents — performance, endurance, consistency, or structure — which nudges the intensity mix within each phase. The phases themselves stay: a taper week stays a taper week even if you ask for more performance.
Yes — the coach proposes, you decide. The two main levers are "Adjust My Plan" and "New Plan". Adjust keeps your goal and profile but regenerates upcoming sessions around what's actually happened — missed sessions, fresher recovery, a changed event date. New Plan rebuilds from scratch with a fresh profile when your goal itself has shifted.
Adjust runs as a background job and keeps your next seven days as they are where it can, so a regenerate mid-week doesn't yank tomorrow's session out from under you. When your Coach rebuilds your plan from chat, there's a cooldown — up to three rebuilds in 24 hours, at least six hours apart — to stop the plan churning. In the iPhone, iPad and Mac apps, the Adjust My Plan and New Plan buttons currently need Pro; you can still ask your Coach to change your plan in chat.
If life gets in the way for longer, you can archive the plan, and start a new one when you're back. The coach can also propose changes in chat — "swap Tuesday and Thursday", "this week's too heavy" — and apply them with your sign-off.
Nothing dramatic. Missed sessions don't compound into guilt or plan abandonment, and Primed doesn't cram the missed work into the following days.
If you skip a session, that day's recommendation becomes rest or easy recovery, and the rest of your plan carries on as it is. If you miss a hard day, ask your Coach whether to move or rebalance the week — it will propose the change and apply it once you confirm. If you miss a stretch of training (sickness, travel, injury), use Adjust My Plan or ask your Coach to rebuild your upcoming weeks from where you are now; your Coach may also suggest this when you've missed several sessions.
The principle: the plan is a living hypothesis, not a contract — and you decide when it changes shape.
Yes — strength sessions are built into your plan around your endurance work, based on the days you have available. The emphasis depends on the phase: more strength in base, less during peak and taper.
Primed's primary focus is endurance. Strength is supportive: structured enough to be useful, not so prescriptive that it competes with a dedicated lifting program if you have one.
An AI coach personalizes training by grounding every recommendation in your actual data rather than a generic template.
Primed combines your completed training history, current plan phase, connected recovery signals (such as sleep and HRV), upcoming target events, and your direct athlete feedback. For athletes on Primed Pro, personalization also incorporates longer-term memory and pattern insights observed across weeks of training.
Personalization never assumes continuous real-time omniscience; it works reliably from the context and permissions you choose to share.
Fitting endurance training around a busy schedule means preserving the workout's core purpose rather than rigidly demanding hours you don't have.
When your available training window shrinks—for example having 45 minutes instead of 90—you can tell your coach in Primed. The coach adapts the session structure (such as shifting from long steady miles to a focused interval or tempo set) to deliver the desired training stimulus within your actual time constraint.
If an entire session must be skipped, Primed adjusts upcoming days so you don't accumulate excessive fatigue by cramming missed training into subsequent workouts.
For time-crunched cyclists, the most effective coaching approach focuses on high-quality interval density, targeted sweet spot or threshold work, and strict protection of recovery days.
Primed helps cyclists make the most of limited weekly hours by adapting indoor trainer and outdoor sessions around available daylight and calendar windows. You can export structured cycling workouts directly into Zwift (.zwo format) with exact target wattage zones.
Because recovery is monitored daily, the coach helps prevent the common mistake of turning every short ride into an all-out race that exhausts you before the weekend.
Unlike static marathon spreadsheets or pace-template apps (such as Runna or basic Garmin Coach plans) that primarily adjust when you manually edit a race goal, an adaptive AI running coach updates your training around how your body is actually responding and how your week is unfolding.
Primed builds periodised running plans for 5K, 10K, half-marathon, marathon, and trail events across base, build, peak, and taper phases. It combines your threshold pace, heart-rate zones, running dynamics from Garmin and Apple Health, acute and chronic training load (ATL/CTL/TSB), and overnight recovery biometrics (HRV, resting heart rate, and sleep) to guide each day's run.
When life or fatigue intervenes—heavy legs after a long run, poor sleep, travel, or a compressed weekday window—you can talk through the options with Coach, run a 15-minute warm-up check, or log post-run RPE and expectation feedback so upcoming sessions adapt without cramming missed mileage or risking soft-tissue overload.
Yes. Primed is an AI cycling coach designed for riders who train with power meters and smart trainers and want their wattage targets interpreted alongside real physiological fatigue—not just a standalone FTP estimate.
Primed ingests power streams, interval splits, Functional Threshold Power (FTP), threshold heart rate, and Training Stress Score (TSS, CTL, ATL, and TSB) from Garmin and Intervals.icu alongside overnight HRV, resting heart rate, and sleep architecture from Oura, WHOOP, Garmin, or Apple Health. By evaluating power output against autonomic recovery and post-ride RPE, the coach distinguishes between localized heavy legs (where a 15-minute warm-up reassessment makes sense) and systemic fatigue (where threshold or VO2 max intervals should be scaled back to Zone 1 or Zone 2 recovery).
In day-to-day training, you can inspect the Why This Session rationale for every ride, ask Coach to condense a 90-minute workout into a 45-minute window when work runs late, export structured Zwift (.zwo) files with exact wattage ramps, and opt in to automatic planned workout sync with your Intervals.icu calendar.
A sustainable weekly training load typically follows a polarized or pyramidal distribution: roughly 80% of volume at easy aerobic intensity (Zone 2) and about 20% at quality intensity (threshold or VO2 max), backed by protected recovery days.
Weekly ramp rate should be progressive but capped—typically adding no more than 3 to 5 Chronic Training Load (CTL) points per week—to allow cardiovascular and muscular adaptations to consolidate without overuse injury.
Primed builds this periodization into your calendar automatically, organizing training blocks into base, build, peak, and recovery weeks.
Recovery & readiness
Recovery is summarised as a daily readiness state — green, amber, or red — based on your wearable's own readiness or recovery score (such as Oura readiness or WHOOP recovery), or on your sleep score when that's all that's available.
The simple traffic-light is a surface for a more nuanced underlying picture. The coach reads the trend (is your HRV consistently below baseline this week?) rather than fixating on a single number, and uses it to nudge today's session up or down.
Readiness affects recommendations, not autonomy. You can always train through an amber day if you choose to — the coach will take it into account.
AI training apps measure athlete readiness and recovery by combining overnight autonomic nervous system biometrics—primarily nocturnal Heart Rate Variability (HRV) and resting heart rate (RHR)—with sleep duration and architecture (slow-wave deep and REM sleep), cumulative training stress (CTL, ATL, TSB, monotony, and strain), and subjective athlete feedback such as Rate of Perceived Exertion (RPE) and muscular soreness.
In Primed, readiness evaluation is longitudinal and provenance-aware rather than a black-box single-night formula. The system compares 7-to-30-day rolling biometric trends against your personal baseline and applies an origin-aware priority order—prioritizing direct recovery and hardware sensors (Oura, WHOOP, and Garmin) ahead of aggregator feeds (Intervals.icu and Apple Health)—so overlapping connections never double-count or distort your daily green, amber, or red readiness state.
Crucially, readiness in Primed serves as transparent coaching evidence rather than an inflexible lock. You can inspect which recovery and load signals shaped today's Daily Coaching Decision (DCD), and when wearable scores disagree with how your legs feel, the coach uses a structured 10-to-15-minute warm-up check to decide whether to proceed with intervals or pivot to aerobic recovery.
Garmin, Oura, WHOOP and Intervals.icu all provide HRV, sleep and resting heart rate to Primed, and Oura's readiness or WHOOP's recovery score also sets your readiness colour. Apple Health brings in data from Apple Watch, Polar and many other devices that write to it.
If multiple sources have the same metric, the system uses an origin-aware priority order — prioritizing dedicated recovery and direct hardware sources (Oura, WHOOP, and Garmin) ahead of aggregator feeds (Intervals.icu and Apple Health) — so you don't get confused by conflicting readings.
If you're choosing what to buy: any of these covers the essentials. The bigger gain is being consistent with whichever you already wear.
Primed still works. Without HRV or sleep data, the coach works from the signals that are available — your completed sessions, how hard they felt, and what you tell it about how you're feeling.
You'll get less precision than with a wearable, but the same core loop: a plan that adapts to what actually happened, not just to what was scheduled.
Adding a recovery device later (Oura, Garmin, or one that reports through Apple Health) immediately improves the signal — no replan required.
You are ready for hard training when your autonomic recovery metrics and your subjective muscular feel align in a positive state.
Objectively, look for nocturnal Heart Rate Variability (HRV) within or above your rolling baseline, resting heart rate at or below your baseline, and adequate restorative sleep. Subjectively, your legs should feel responsive during a standard 10-to-15 minute warm-up.
In Primed, green readiness indicates that these factors are aligned. If your metrics are green but your legs feel wooden, Primed suggests an exploratory warm-up test before deciding whether to proceed with high-intensity intervals.
Readiness scoring in Primed works as a daily decision input that synthesizes overnight biometrics—primarily HRV trends, resting heart rate, and sleep quality—against your recent cumulative training load.
Rather than relying on black-box proprietary scores that fluctuate wildly, Primed compares your biometrics against your personal multi-week baseline, categorizing your state as green, amber, or red.
Readiness guides coaching suggestions, not athlete autonomy. Green suggests full capacity for quality work; amber advises caution or scaling back; red recommends active recovery or rest. You always have the final say.
The metrics that matter most for endurance recovery tracking are nocturnal Heart Rate Variability (HRV) trends, resting heart rate (RHR), sleep duration and architecture, and subjective athlete feedback.
Nocturnal HRV reflects autonomic nervous system balance, while resting heart rate indicates cardiovascular strain and baseline recovery. Sleep duration and the proportion of restorative slow-wave (deep) and REM sleep govern physical tissue repair and neurological restoration.
Trends over 7 to 30 days are far more reliable than a single night's reading. A single low HRV score is an observation; a multi-day downward trend indicates genuine fatigue accumulation.
Recovery is as important as training because the body does not get fitter during the workout itself—training merely provides a catabolic stress stimulus. The actual fitness gains (supercompensation) happen during recovery.
During recovery, muscle protein synthesis repairs damaged fibers, glycogen stores are replenished in the liver and muscles, mitochondrial density expands, and the autonomic nervous system resets.
Without sufficient recovery between hard blocks, training load simply compounds into chronic fatigue, plateauing performance, and elevated risk of non-functional overreaching or illness.
Sleep directly governs your autonomic balance, neuromuscular coordination, pain tolerance, and glycogen replenishment ahead of your next workout.
A night of fragmented or shortened sleep elevates resting heart rate, suppresses Heart Rate Variability, and increases perceived exertion. Workouts that usually feel moderate will feel significantly harder, and hitting target threshold or VO2 max wattage becomes difficult.
When sleep is compromised, Primed modifies today's session—such as reducing duration by 25% or downgrading an interval workout to a steady aerobic spin—allowing you to stay consistent without digging a fatigue hole.
To optimize recovery after endurance training, prioritize carbohydrates to replenish depleted muscle glycogen stores and high-quality protein to support muscular tissue repair, along with fluids and electrolytes.
Consuming a balanced combination of carbohydrates and protein (roughly 3:1 or 4:1 ratio) within 60 to 90 minutes after demanding sessions accelerates glycogen resynthesis. Throughout the rest of the day, consistent nutrient-dense meals and healthy fats sustain cellular recovery.
Primed connects with supported nutrition sources like FatSecret, allowing you to incorporate your recorded food diary into your wider coaching context.
Metrics & methodology
Primed uses the standard load model most coaches and platforms work with: each session has a Training Stress Score (TSS), and your fitness, fatigue, and form are tracked as Chronic Training Load (CTL), Acute Training Load (ATL), and Training Stress Balance (TSB). CTL is the long-running average of your training; ATL is the short-running picture of recent strain; TSB is the gap between them — what most athletes know as form.
For triathletes, load is also broken down by discipline so you can see swim, bike, and run separately rather than only the overall total. That makes it obvious when one sport is being undercooked while another is piling up fatigue.
Load history is available on the Load Detail screen, and the coach uses it directly when deciding whether to push, hold, or back off.
Primed estimates your thresholds — such as cycling FTP and threshold heart rate — from your recent training and connected services (including importing sport settings directly from Intervals.icu) when the data supports it.
If you have a measured value from a recent test, ramp, or race, enter it in Settings › Profile (FTP, threshold heart rate, maximum and resting heart rate, threshold pace). Your Coach, Intervals.icu calendar sync, and Zwift workout exports use the values there.
Power, heart-rate, and pace zones are derived from your thresholds and used to build interval targets in your sessions and workout exports.
The colour comes from your wearable's readiness or recovery score (or your sleep score). Green means your recovery looks good and harder work makes sense. Amber means it's somewhat lower; the day will still work, but the coach may lean toward a lighter load. Red means your recovery is low — the coach's recommendation will usually skew toward easy or rest.
The colour is a summary, not the whole story. Your coach also weighs your HRV and resting heart rate against your normal, your sleep and your training load — open the evidence behind today's decision to see which signals mattered.
Readiness influences the coach's recommendations but never overrides your choice. If you want to train through an amber day, you can; the coach takes note.
The coach works from a unified snapshot of your physiology, training load, recovery, and recent behaviour — not just the last activity. That includes your CTL/ATL/TSB across each discipline, fatigue and recovery signals, current and trending readiness, an injury-risk profile, and the long-term memory it's built up about how you train.
It also reads your plan, your events calendar, and the gap between what was scheduled and what you actually did — so it can tell whether last week was a recovery week or a missed week.
Your personal data comes from your account and the services you've connected. The coach can also look up outside information when it helps — such as your local weather, or a web search for details like a race course.
Today's session can change when important new information arrives — last night's recovery data, a completed or deleted session, a change to your schedule, or something you tell your coach, such as an illness or less time. Changes to the rest of your plan happen when you use Adjust My Plan or agree to a change your coach proposes.
When the coach makes a meaningful change, you can ask it why — "why did Tuesday move?" — and it will explain the constraints, signals, and reasoning behind the call. The same applies to its recommendations: it shows its working rather than asking you to take its word.
Bigger structural changes (a new phase, a different event, a different week shape) always come back to you for sign-off before they're applied.
Training load numbers—such as Training Stress Score (TSS), Chronic Training Load (CTL / Fitness), Acute Training Load (ATL / Fatigue), and Training Stress Balance (TSB / Form)—measure the volume and intensity of your training over time.
CTL represents your rolling multi-week average of training (your fitness base). ATL reflects your fatigue over the past 7 days. TSB is the difference between them: a positive TSB indicates freshness (ideal for race day), while a moderately negative TSB (-10 to -25) indicates productive training stress.
Crucially, a higher load number is not automatically better. Load must be interpreted alongside recovery metrics and performance: building CTL too fast leads to overtraining, while maintaining high load with poor recovery produces diminishing returns.
You can identify early signs of overtraining (non-functional overreaching) by looking for divergence between training load, biometric recovery, and athletic output.
Key biometric indicators include a multi-day suppression of nocturnal HRV below your baseline, an elevated resting heart rate (or paradoxically suppressed maximum heart rate during efforts), and persistently negative Training Stress Balance (TSB below -30).
If your metrics show high systemic fatigue while your perceived exertion for basic aerobic paces spikes, Primed flags the divergence and recommends easing back before chronic overtraining occurs.
Coach & chat
Anything you'd ask a real coach mid-week. "Why is today's session structured this way?" "I'm tired — should I push it or back off?" "Walk me through next week." "I'm sick, what should I change?" "Translate this session into a Zwift workout."
The coach has direct access to your plan, your recent activities, and your readiness state, so the answers are grounded in your data — not generic advice copied from a textbook.
If a question needs a change to your plan or events, the coach proposes it and asks before making the change. You're always in control.
Yes, with Primed Pro. The coach stores facts and preferences it picks up over time — your goals, the sessions you tend to dread, training quirks, equipment, recurring injuries — and pulls them back into context when they matter.
Memory is visible. Settings → Profile → Coaching Memory → What I Know shows everything the coach has retained; you can add a fact or choose Forget to remove anything that's wrong.
You can also tell the coach things explicitly: "remember I race on Sundays" works. Memory is opt-out by entry, not all-or-nothing.
Your conversations with the coach are tied to your account and used to power your coaching. They're processed by Primed's AI providers — Google (Gemini), OpenAI, Anthropic (Claude), and OpenRouter, which forwards requests to the model provider selected for a task — and Primed doesn't provide your information to AI providers for the purpose of training their models.
Chat history is persisted so the coach can pick up where you left off, but you can delete any conversation from the chat history in the app, and it's all deleted along with your account if you choose to delete.
We don't surface your conversations to other users, advertisers, or analytics platforms.
Every conversation with the coach is saved to your account and available from the chat history button in the Coach tab. On Mac, the history opens in a popover; on iPhone and iPad, it opens from the same tab the coach lives in; on the web, it's in the Coach page's sidebar.
Conversations are tied to context — a recent activity, a recovery insight, today's session — so you can pick up where you left off without re-explaining what was happening. The coach also pulls in long-term memory so you don't have to repeat yourself across weeks.
You can delete individual conversations at any time, and your history is deleted along with your account if you choose to delete.
Yes. Anything you add to Events — a race, training camp, group ride, or fitness goal — is part of the coach's context. When you build your plan around a goal event, its phases (base, build, peak, taper) point at that event; the coach takes your B and C events into account when you discuss your week.
You can also ask the coach in chat to add, change, or move an event for you. It'll propose the change and apply it once you confirm. If your goal event moves, use Adjust My Plan (or ask the coach) to rebuild your plan around the new date.
Up to two upcoming events show on the Today screen at a time (iPhone, iPad and Mac), sorted by date; the rest live in Events.
No. The coach can suggest changes — to your plan, your goal event, or an upcoming session — but it won't restructure your plan silently. Any meaningful change is offered as a proposal you confirm.
The one thing that can happen automatically is an in-place adjustment to today's session for Pro subscribers — for example making it shorter or easier, or swapping it for recovery or rest — when important new information (such as last night's recovery) changes today's decision. Anything else — moving a session to another day, changing sport, adding or removing sessions, touching a race, or a different goal, phase or week shape — surfaces for your sign-off.
The principle: the coach can show its working, but you stay in the driver's seat.
No, Primed is not designed as a universal replacement for an experienced human coach. Both serve different, highly valuable purposes in an athlete's journey.
A human coach provides on-the-ground visual observation of technique, bike fit nuance, deep personal empathy, and high-stakes tactical racecraft that algorithms cannot reproduce.
Primed offers distinct advantages in 24/7 availability, continuous multi-wearable data synthesis, and instant session adaptation whenever sleep, fatigue, or schedules change. Many athletes use Primed as a self-coaching companion, while others use it alongside a human coach between check-ins.
When you are tired, the best adjustment depends on whether the fatigue is acute and localized (heavy legs) or systemic (low HRV, poor sleep, elevated resting heart rate).
If fatigue is localized, start with a 15-minute warm-up check. If your legs open up as blood flow increases, proceed with your planned intervals. If your power or pace remains flat and perceived exertion stays high, convert the workout to an easy Zone 2 spin or aerobic jog.
If fatigue is systemic with suppressed recovery biometrics, swap the session for active recovery (Zone 1) or take a full rest day, shifting your quality workout forward 24 to 48 hours.
AI & models
Primed mainly uses Google's Gemini models, with other models — such as OpenAI's GPT and Anthropic's Claude, reached directly or through OpenRouter — available for particular tasks and as fallbacks. The exact model in use for a given task is selected centrally and tuned over time — you don't have to choose one. Primed doesn't provide your information to AI providers for the purpose of training their models.
Different jobs use different models. Quick interpretive answers, briefings, and structured plan generation each go to whichever model performs best for that shape of task at the time.
Model choices are an implementation detail; the contract you care about is that your data stays yours and is used only to coach you.
AI models can be confidently wrong, and a coach that quotes the wrong workout or misreads your week is no good. Primed mitigates this in two ways: the coach is grounded in your real data — your plan, activities, recovery, events — and it shows its reasoning, so you can spot when the working doesn't add up.
If you see a hallucination, push back in chat. The coach will rework the answer, and you can remove any memory it's stored that contributed to the mistake from Settings (Forget).
Changes to your plan or events are proposed first and applied only when you confirm — the one exception being an in-place adjustment to today's session for Pro subscribers when new information changes today's decision. Firm limits, such as an illness or injury you've reported, always apply.
Not at the moment. Primed has experimented with a vintage coach mode — an old-school 1930s coaching personality with the same data and reasoning — but it's currently switched off, so there's no personality toggle in the app.
Primed is built on a two-tier coaching architecture that strictly separates deterministic safety rules from conversational AI reasoning.
Deterministic systems own safety, mathematics, permissions, and data integrity: if you report a confirmed illness, active injury, or medical restriction, deterministic safety envelopes hard-block high-intensity prescriptions. The AI coach cannot override or talk its way past these restrictions.
Conversely, derived metrics (such as Foster monotony, training strain, ACWR, and TSB) serve as advisory coaching evidence rather than rigid algorithmic gates. They inform the coach's reasoning, allowing it to adapt sessions based on your actual feedback and schedule while staying firmly within safe physiological bounds.
Finally, all client surfaces (the web app, iPhone, iPad, Mac, widgets, and the Primed MCP Server) consume the identical canonical Daily Coaching Decision (DCD), eliminating split-brain discrepancies or contradictory advice across devices.
Activities & history
Activities show up in the Schedule tab, split into Schedule (current and upcoming weeks) and Completed (everything you've done). Each session can be opened for a closer look — its details, its workout structure and, where available, how your time in zone compared with the plan.
You can remove sessions you added yourself or planned sessions from your schedule. Duplicate imports from different devices are merged automatically, so they don't count twice.
Activities synced from a wearable can't be edited or deleted in Primed — make changes at the source (e.g. Garmin Connect).
Most endurance athletes have overlapping connections, and Primed handles that without making you choose. Each activity and wellness reading is tagged with its origin provenance, and the system automatically de-duplicates overlapping workouts — including recognizing when an activity imported via Intervals.icu or Apple Health originally came from Garmin, Wahoo, COROS, Polar, or Suunto — so the same workout is never counted twice.
Where the same metric is available from multiple sources (e.g. sleep or HRV from Garmin, Oura, Intervals.icu, and Apple Health), an origin-aware priority order picks the most direct, trusted source so conflicting readings don't distort your readiness.
You can disconnect any source you'd rather not use without losing the activities that came from it.
It depends on each connected source and what their API exposes. Intervals.icu imports up to 180 days of historical activities and daily wellness on connect (plus 90 days of past and 365 days of future calendar events), Garmin provides roughly the last 30 days of activities when you connect, Health Connect up to 90 days (with its history permission), and Apple Health goes back as far as your phone's data does.
The coach focuses on your recent training for day-to-day decisions, because that's what's physiologically relevant. Older activities still count toward your long-term fitness history and Chronic Training Load.
If you switch from one device to another, your history doesn't reset — it joins onto your existing record.
When you complete a workout, your Today screen automatically transitions into an outcome reflection card that compares your executed training against the coach's expected physiological stimulus.
Primed provides a fast two-step feedback prompt: first, rate your overall Rate of Perceived Exertion (RPE from Very Easy to All-out), then optionally select an expectation chip indicating whether the workout felt easier, harder, or as expected.
This subjective context is paired with your objective telemetry (heart rate, power, pace, and zone distribution) to update your Digital Twin and inform tomorrow's coaching recommendations.
Events, races & exports
From Events in the iPhone, iPad or Mac app (or by asking the coach), add a race, an event (training camp, group ride), or a goal (sub-3 marathon, first ultra). Each one carries a priority — A (Key) for your main target, B (Important) for supporting races, C (Minor) for tune-up events.
Up to two upcoming events show on the Today screen at a time, sorted by date. The rest live in Events.
When you build or adjust your plan around a goal event, the phase structure (base/build/peak/taper) is built around it. Changes are explicit — you choose Adjust My Plan, or the coach proposes the new shape and you confirm.
It's a coaching shorthand for how much your plan should bend around an event. An A race is your main target — the one you're peaking for, where the plan's phases (base, build, peak, taper) get pointed. B races are important supporting events you want to perform well at, but they don't trigger a full taper. C races are tune-ups, openers, or fun events that fit inside training without disrupting it.
Each event also has a type (race, event, or goal). When you build a plan around an event, you can also set a goal outcome — just finish, personal best, be competitive, or podium — so the plan knows whether to optimise for completion or sharpening.
You can have multiple events of each priority and change priorities at any time. If your main target changes, adjust your plan so its phases point at the new event.
Yes. Ask the coach to export today's session and you'll get a structured Zwift workout file (.zwo) with your power zones, intervals, ramps, durations, and on-screen text cues baked in. It includes everything Zwift's workout player needs to run the session as designed.
The download link is generated on demand. Grab the file, drop it into your Zwift workouts folder, and ride it from the workout picker.
Best used for indoor cycling sessions where the structure matters; outdoor rides usually flex too much for a fixed file to be useful.
Yes, when you explicitly opt in. Outgoing workout sync is off by default so Primed never writes to your calendar without your permission. When you enable 'Export Planned Workouts to Intervals.icu' in Settings › Connections (with Calendar Write permission granted), you can optionally export up to the next 14–28 days of planned workouts and automatically publish future schedule changes and daily coaching adaptations.
Primed exports canonical structured cycling, running, and swimming workouts (including warm-up, work/recovery intervals, cool-down, power/pace/HR targets, duration, TSS, and attached .zwo XML for cycling). Incomplete prescriptions or unsupported sports (such as strength or yoga) are skipped rather than exported as plain calendar notes.
Primed remains authoritative for its prescriptions while protecting your calendar: it never modifies or deletes workouts created outside Primed, pauses automatic overwrites if you edit a Primed-exported workout inside Intervals.icu until you choose to republish, and disabling outgoing sync stops future exports without deleting workouts already on your calendar.
Today, Primed supports downloadable Zwift (.zwo) workout files and opt-in structured workout publishing to your Intervals.icu calendar (for cycling, running, and swimming sessions).
Other direct workout exports — such as pushing structured workouts to a TrainingPeaks calendar, FIT-file workouts for Garmin head units, Wahoo, or the Apple Watch Workout app — aren't available yet.
If you've got a specific export you'd find useful, tell us at support@beprimed.ai.
Two kinds. Silent pushes quietly refresh the app in the background — for example when your schedule changes. Visible notifications appear for things you'd actually want to see: your training plan or a coaching response being ready, an insight from your Garmin or Oura activity, a coaching update (such as your morning recovery or a significant change to today's session, with limits on how often these are sent), a prompt to say how a session felt, or an update on a problem you reported.
On iPhone, iPad and Mac, Primed asks for notification permission when you turn on insights in Settings › Coaching Setup, or when your coach offers to switch them on. On Android 13 and later, Primed asks once when you first open the app.
You can turn notifications off any time from your device's notification settings (for example iOS Settings → Notifications → Primed); the app keeps working without them.
Data & integrations
Primed supports Garmin, Wahoo, Oura, WHOOP, Withings, Intervals.icu, Apple Health and FatSecret, and provides an official Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for AI assistants. These bring activities, recovery, calendar events, or body measurements into your coaching context, depending on the source and the permissions you grant. Garmin and Intervals.icu require a free Primed account.
Apple Health can also provide supported data shared by other apps and devices. The available data depends on what the source writes to Health and what you authorize Primed to read.
Open Connections in the app to see the sources available to your account, including FatSecret for food diary and nutrition data. Check the Integrations page for an overview; a listed source is not a guarantee that every device or metric is supported.
Primed connects to Intervals.icu via OAuth 2.0. On initial connect, Primed runs a rate-limit-aware backfill importing up to 180 days of non-Strava activity summaries and daily wellness records (fetching your most recent 28 days first so recent context is ready straight away), along with your sport settings (FTP, LTHR, and max heart rate) and external calendar events (90 days back and 365 days ahead). Due to Strava API restrictions, activities synced to Intervals.icu from Strava cannot be forwarded to Primed.
After the initial import, webhooks keep your coaching context updated when new activities, wellness entries, threshold updates, or calendar events arrive in Intervals.icu. During coaching conversations, Coach can also read your athlete profile, zone tables, calendar events, activity interval splits, and high-resolution power, heart-rate, cadence, speed, and altitude streams on demand.
Because many athletes use Intervals.icu alongside direct wearables, Primed applies origin-aware provenance and deduplication: it recognizes when an Intervals.icu activity originated from Garmin, Wahoo, Zwift, COROS, Polar, or Suunto, preventing duplicate load calculation when you also connect Garmin or Apple Health directly.
Outgoing workout sync to your Intervals.icu calendar is off by default and controlled by an explicit opt-in toggle in Settings › Connections. When enabled, Primed publishes structured cycling, running, and swimming workouts to your calendar without ever modifying or deleting workouts created outside Primed, and disconnecting in Primed revokes its OAuth token immediately at Intervals.icu.
The Primed MCP Server (https://mcp.beprimed.ai/mcp) is an open Model Context Protocol endpoint that lets you connect external AI assistants—including Claude Desktop, Claude Web, ChatGPT, Cursor, and custom MCP agents—directly to your live Primed coaching context using secure OAuth 2.1 with PKCE.
Once authorized, your AI client can invoke five read-only tools scoped to your account: get_primed_profile (athletic profile, sport thresholds, and connected sources), get_today_coaching (your canonical Daily Coaching Decision, readiness state, and rationale), get_upcoming_training (your next 7 days of planned workouts), get_training_status (CTL, ATL, TSB, monotony, strain, and readiness trends), and get_recent_activity_summary (completed workouts over the last 1–28 days).
In keeping with Primed's Zero Split-Brain architecture, the MCP server is 100% read-only and never acts as a separate decision engine—every tool returns the exact same canonical Daily Coaching Decision and Digital Twin state shown in the iPhone, Mac, and web apps. Responses are strictly minimized to non-PHI coaching summaries, rate-limited to 60 requests per minute, and never used to train external AI models. Full setup instructions and JSON schemas are available at beprimed.ai/docs/mcp.
Your data is stored in encrypted form and accessed only by your own account. Connections to third-party platforms (Garmin, Oura, Intervals.icu, etc.) use OAuth — Primed never sees your password for those services, and the access tokens are managed by a secure proxy.
Inside the system, fitness data is used only to power your coaching. It does not get pooled with other athletes' data in a way that could identify you, and we don't move it through advertising or analytics pipelines.
You can disconnect any source at any time to stop further sync; Primed then deletes its stored access. For Garmin and Intervals.icu, Primed also revokes its access token at the provider automatically. For other services (such as Oura or WHOOP), you can also remove Primed from that service's connected-apps settings to fully cut access.
Apple Health is read-only. Primed reads workouts, heart rate, sleep, HRV, and resting heart rate where you've allowed it — and never writes anything back to your Health database.
iOS owns the permissions. You choose exactly which data types to share when you connect, and you can change that any time from iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Health → Primed. The app can't show toggles that override the system; it just reflects whatever you've chosen there.
If you turn off a data type later, the coach loses that signal but keeps working with whatever's left. Granular control sits with you.
Most sources push data shortly after a session syncs to their cloud — Garmin, Wahoo, Intervals.icu, Oura and WHOOP send real-time webhook updates to Primed's servers, so the coach typically sees a new ride or last night's sleep soon after the source app receives it. Primed also checks Oura each day in case an update is missed.
Apple Health updates when the iPhone next opens Primed (or in the background, when iOS allows).
If Apple Health data looks missing, open Primed or tap Sync Now under Settings › Connections › Apple Health. When a history import finishes, Primed lets you know with a notification, so you don't have to keep checking.
If your device's app shares data with Apple Health or Intervals.icu (for example COROS, Polar, or Suunto), Primed can read the supported activities and wellness data you authorize through those connections while preserving original device provenance.
If your platform doesn't go through Apple Health or Intervals.icu and isn't natively connected, tell us. Direct integrations are added on a rolling basis, weighted by what athletes actually use.
In the meantime, manual upload of FIT or TCX files directly into Primed isn't currently supported — the system is built for live connected sources.
Yes. With a free Primed account, you can connect your Garmin account directly through Garmin Connect.
Primed reads your completed workouts (cycling, running, swimming), heart rate streams, and overnight recovery data (including sleep and HRV). These signals automatically update your training load and inform daily session adjustments.
You keep using your existing Garmin watch or Edge cycling computer; Primed serves as the intelligent coaching and planning layer on top.
Primed is an endurance coaching platform that provides dedicated, read-only integration with Apple Health on iPhone.
With your permission, Primed reads workouts, heart rate data, sleep records, and resting biometrics stored in HealthKit. This allows data recorded by your Apple Watch or compatible third-party apps to inform your coaching decisions.
Health permissions remain entirely in your control through iOS Settings, and Primed never writes unverified workouts to your Apple Health database.
Primed does not currently offer a direct public integration with Strava.
Instead, Primed connects directly to the underlying hardware and training platforms that record your training—including Garmin, Wahoo, Intervals.icu, Apple Health, Oura, WHOOP, and Withings. Connecting your primary recording platform ensures that Primed receives raw activities and physiological telemetry directly.
Many athletes continue sharing their activities with the Strava community while relying on Primed for daily coaching decisions and plan adaptation.
Apple Health is a first-class data source in Primed, with deep support for multisport and endurance telemetry.
Multisport workouts (such as triathlons or duathlons) recorded on Apple Watch automatically split into separate swimming, cycling, and running legs with transition details.
Pool swims capture stroke count, stroke style, and SWOLF efficiency metrics. Workouts also capture GPS routes, elevation profiles, cycling cadence, and running dynamics.
Completed sessions upload quietly in the background without requiring you to open the app manually first.
Subscription & access
Primed uses Apple In-App Purchase for subscriptions on iPhone, iPad and Mac, with Google Play billing planned alongside our native Android launch. The store handles billing, currency, taxes and refunds — we never see your card.
You can start in a temporary guest session or create a Free account. Both include AI coach chat, training plans and plan edits. A free account also lets you connect Garmin. Pro adds longer-term coaching memory and insights across weeks.
Exact pricing is shown inside the app at the point of purchase, in your local currency. Subscriptions can be managed at any time from your Apple ID settings (and Google Play settings when the Android app launches).
Free covers the everyday picture: connect supported data sources, talk with the AI coach, create and edit training plans, see today's guidance, and browse your activity history and training trends. Garmin requires an account, but no paid subscription.
Pro adds longer-term coaching memory and insights drawn from patterns across weeks. Those features give the coach more continuity across your training history; chat and plan edits are already included in Free. In the iPhone, iPad and Mac apps, a few shortcuts — the New Plan and Adjust My Plan buttons, and asking your coach through Siri — currently need Pro; you can still create and change your plan by chatting with your coach.
You can move between Free and Pro at any time without losing your data.
Refunds are handled by Apple, not by us. You can request one from your iPhone (Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions) or directly from reportaproblem.apple.com — most are reviewed within a few days.
Cancelling a subscription stops future renewals; you keep Pro features until the end of the period you've already paid for.
If Apple grants a refund, we honour the outcome immediately on the next sync — your account drops back to Free without you having to do anything else.
Your account stays available on Free, including chat, training plans and supported connections. Pro's longer-term coaching memory and insights are no longer included after the paid period ends.
If you subscribe again, Pro features become available when the app verifies the renewed subscription.
You can switch between Free and Pro as often as you like; we don't penalise you for it.
Yes. Primed runs on iPhone, iPad, Mac and the web (app.beprimed.ai), and your data is tied to your Primed account — sign in on any of them and you see the same plans, history, and coach state.
iPhone is currently the primary client, and Apple Health connects on iPhone and iPad (not on the Mac). The Mac app is built for the desk: a resident dashboard with sidebar navigation, keyboard shortcuts, and a chat history popover for longer conversations.
Subscriptions follow your Apple ID and family sharing rules, so you don't pay twice to use Primed across your own devices.
You can start using Primed for free ($0), making it an accessible way to experience AI endurance coaching without a subscription.
Primed Free includes everyday AI coach conversations, personalized training plans, plan editing, today recommendations, and supported data connections (including Garmin with an account). Unlike human coaching services that typically cost $150 to $400 per month, Primed provides daily coaching guidance at zero initial cost.
If you choose to upgrade to Primed Pro for longer-term memory and multi-week pattern insights, subscriptions are $19.99 USD monthly or $129.99 USD annually.
You don't need a time-limited free trial because Primed is free to start: Primed Free costs $0 with no subscription and no credit card required.
You can download the app on iPhone, iPad, or Mac, start a conversation with the AI coach, connect your supported devices, and generate your first training plan immediately.
If you later decide to explore Primed Pro for multi-week coaching memory and insights, you can subscribe inside the app through Apple with full control over cancellation.
Yes. Primed is completely free to start on iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Primed Free includes full access to the AI coach conversation, personalized endurance training plans for running, cycling and triathlon, daily session guidance, and supported data connections (Garmin requires a free account).
Primed Pro is an optional upgrade for athletes who want deeper cross-week memory and longitudinal pattern insights.
Account & support
Primed uses Auth0 for sign-in, for example with your email address. If you started in a guest session, your sign-up converts the guest into a real account — connections, plan, and any progress carry across without you having to set it all up again.
Sign in with the same account on each device — iPhone, iPad, Mac or the web — to see the same data.
Your Primed account is identified by your sign-in, not your Apple ID. If you change Apple ID, sign in to Primed with the same email or Apple sign-in method you used originally and your account will be there.
Your subscription is a different story — it lives on the Apple ID that purchased it. If you've moved Apple IDs, you'll need to either restore the subscription on the original Apple ID, use Family Sharing, or start a fresh subscription on the new one. We can help reconcile billing if anything looks off.
If you've genuinely lost access to your sign-in account, email support@beprimed.ai with as much detail as you can — we'll work with you to recover access where it's safe to do so.
Email support@beprimed.ai. It's a small team and we read everything — bug reports, feature requests, billing questions, integration weirdness. Real demand from real athletes shapes the order we build things.
If you've hit something that looks broken, including the version of the app and a brief description of what you were doing helps us reproduce it quickly.
Primed is available today, and the core coaching loop — connect your data, get a plan, follow it, talk to the coach — is in place. Some surfaces are still being polished.
If you'd like to be involved more directly in early features, get in touch.
Platforms
Yes — Primed has a native Mac app, built as a resident coaching dashboard rather than a transient companion. Single window, sidebar navigation, comfortable to leave open all day with your training context in view.
It signs in with the same Primed account you use on iPhone, and your plans, history, and coach memory all stay in sync. Apple Health doesn't exist on Mac, so recovery and HealthKit-only data are read on iPhone and surface on Mac through your account.
iPhone remains the primary client. Mac is for the desk — long sessions of plan review, chat, or analysis.
A few things that make sense on a desktop. Keyboard shortcuts move you around faster than clicking: ⌘1 Today, ⌘2 Coach chat, ⌘3 Schedule, ⌘4 Events, ⌘, for Settings, ⌘R to refresh Today, ⌘⌃R to reset the window size, and ⌘? for the Help Center. The sidebar shows your plan at a glance, and you can hover over the training load chart to see each day's numbers.
It's the same product, tuned for the desk. Anything you do on Mac syncs straight back to iPhone.
Yes — Primed ships Home Screen, Lock Screen, and StandBy widgets on iPhone across Small, Medium, Large, and accessory sizes.
Widgets showcase your coach's Today primary recommendation, clear execution boundaries (duration, intensity ceiling, terrain, and effort), stance indicators, and what-to-avoid guards directly from your Lock Screen or bedside StandBy dock before you even get out of bed.
Widgets refresh quietly on the system schedule and reauthenticate seamlessly in the background. Tapping any widget opens directly to your Today decision surface or session drill-down.
Yes. Primed provides native App Shortcuts and deep Siri integration on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
You can ask Siri hands-free questions such as 'Tell me what Primed training I have today' or 'What's my session today in Primed?' through your iPhone, AirPods, CarPlay, or Apple Watch. Siri speaks your scheduled workout duration, discipline, and target intensity directly, clearly distinguishing between planned sessions, completed workouts, and recovery days.
You can also build custom automations in the iOS Shortcuts app using Primed actions to query today's workout, training plan status, readiness score, and upcoming race countdowns.
The app is designed for connected use — coaching decisions need fresh data — but it degrades gracefully when you're offline. Your most recent plan, activities, and readiness state stay visible from local cache, so you can still see what today's session is on a flight or on a remote ride.
Chat and plan regeneration need a connection.
Services such as Garmin, Oura and WHOOP send your data to Primed's servers once your device syncs with them, and Apple Health data syncs the next time Primed can reach the network.
Yes. Primed provides a full authenticated web application at app.beprimed.ai, accessible from any modern desktop or mobile browser across Mac, Windows, Linux, iPad, iPhone, and Android.
Android athletes can use the web application today to access their Today briefing, conversational Coach chat, weekly Schedule, interactive 3D Athlete Trajectory, and Digital Twin overview.
A dedicated native Android app is actively in development as part of our platform roadmap to deliver native Android Health Connect integration alongside our direct wearable connections.
The web application at app.beprimed.ai delivers near-complete functional parity with our native Apple apps, organized into focused athlete workspaces:
• Today: View your canonical Daily Coaching Decision (DCD), readiness score (green, amber, or red), and today's planned session with full rationale explaining why it was chosen.
• Coach: Engage in real-time, streaming conversational coaching with longitudinal context memory and direct session drill-downs.
• Schedule: Review your weekly calendar and training blocks, apply discipline filters (run, ride, swim, strength), inspect your volume and intensity mix, track plan adherence, and export .zwo cycling workout files for Zwift.
• Athlete Trajectory: Explore interactive 3D projections of your future fitness and fatigue, simulating what-if scenarios (volume changes, tapers, or recovery weeks) grounded in Banister impulse-response math.
• Digital Twin: Inspect your multi-wearable physiological profile, recovery baselines, fatigue resistance, and telemetry data quality across connected sensors.
Primed is engineered around a strict Zero Split-Brain architectural invariant. All client surfaces—the authenticated web application, native iPhone app, iPad, Mac apps, and the Primed MCP Server—consume the identical canonical Daily Coaching Decision (DCD) and Athlete Digital Twin from our backend.
There are no out-of-band mutations or disconnected local decision engines. If your coach adjusts today's session based on fresh recovery telemetry or an evening conversation on the web, your iPhone and Mac apps (and any connected MCP client) reflect that exact adjustment instantly without conflicting advice.
The Athlete Trajectory (accessible at app.beprimed.ai/account/trajectory) is an interactive 3D visual canvas that models your projected fitness and fatigue curves leading into goal events.
Built on sports science load models (Chronic Training Load / CTL, Acute Training Load / ATL, and Training Stress Balance / TSB), the Trajectory lets you test 'what-if' scenarios—such as dialing volume up, taking a mid-block recovery week, or adjusting for missed training—to see the projected impact on race day.
You can also tap 'Ask Coach' directly from any point on the trajectory curve to have your coach analyze trade-offs and evaluate scenario risks before you commit to changing your training plan.
Your Digital Twin (app.beprimed.ai/account/twin) is a longitudinal, evidence-grounded projection of your athletic physiology, training response curves, and recovery baselines.
Rather than relying on isolated dashboards, the Twin synthesizes data across your connected sources (Garmin, WHOOP, Oura, Withings, Intervals.icu, Apple Health) into unified capability profiles, fatigue sensitivity ratings, and sleep recovery trends. It also highlights data quality and source provenance so you always know which signals inform your coaching.
Yes. Athletes can sign up directly at app.beprimed.ai and complete our conversational onboarding flow without needing to download a mobile app first.
The web capability engine asks about your target sports, primary goal events, current weekly training hours, and recent workouts. You can connect your wearable platforms immediately, allowing Primed to ingest historical telemetry and deliver your first Daily Coaching Decision right in the browser.
Privacy, security & deletion
No. Your fitness data is used solely to provide your coaching and insights. It's not sold to advertisers, not shared with data brokers, and not surfaced to other Primed users.
Aggregate, fully de-identified statistics may inform how the system improves over time — for example, how often a given training pattern produces a given outcome — but those aggregates don't include anything that could be traced back to an individual.
If you ever want a copy of your data, or your account deleted along with everything in it, you can do both yourself — see the data export and account deletion answers below.
No. Primed doesn't provide your activities, recovery data, conversations with the coach, or personal profile to AI providers (Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and OpenRouter) for the purpose of training their models, and doesn't use your personal information to train general-purpose AI models of its own.
Primed does use your own data to calibrate models of you — for example, estimates of how you respond to training — to personalise your coaching.
If you'd like to verify the specifics, our Privacy Policy spells out the providers in use and the contractual restrictions in place.
Your account, plans, activities, and chat history are stored in Google Cloud, with primary infrastructure in regions chosen for reliability and proximity to most of our users. Connections to Garmin, Oura and other sources flow through a secure proxy rather than being stored at those providers.
We use industry-standard encryption in transit and at rest, and access is restricted to the systems that need it to deliver coaching. AI requests are processed by our AI providers — Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and OpenRouter (which forwards each request to the selected model provider).
If you have specific data-residency requirements — for instance for an enterprise team — get in touch and we'll talk you through what's possible.
Yes. In the web app, go to Account › Your data and choose Export data; in the app, the export is offered at the start of Settings › Account › Delete Account (you can export and stop there). You'll get a JSON file straight away with your profile, training plan sessions, the activities you or your coach added, your coach conversations and memories, your events, and up to a year of daily readiness, sleep, HRV and resting heart rate readings. For anything else we hold, email support@beprimed.ai with a data-access request.
Most of what's there is the same data you can already see inside the app — but a single export is the easiest way to take it with you, share it with a coach, or audit what's stored.
If you spot anything that looks wrong, let us know and we'll correct or remove it.
In the app, go to Settings → Account → Delete Account (or Account → Your data in the web app). The flow is deliberately careful: first we show your options and what gets removed, then we ask you to confirm by typing DELETE (in the app you also tick a confirmation box and confirm with Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode). Deletion is immediate and permanent — there's no grace period.
Deletion removes your activities, health data, profile, plans, conversations, memories, events, settings and connected-service authorisations — and Primed cancels its access with Garmin, Intervals.icu and Oura automatically. For other services, you can also remove Primed in that service's connected-apps settings. Deleting your account doesn't cancel an App Store or Google Play subscription, so cancel that in your store settings.
A small amount of data is retained: billing records where the law requires them, and usage records that are no longer linked to you. System and security logs are generally deleted within 90 days, and some information can remain in backups for a limited period.
No. Primed declares no tracking in its App Privacy declaration and never shows the iOS App Tracking Transparency prompt. We don't embed advertising SDKs, attribution SDKs, or cross-app identifiers.
The only app telemetry we collect is anonymised crash, performance and usage data, and that's opt-in (Improve Coaching in Settings › Coaching Setup).
If you want to verify any of this, the App Store privacy details and our published Privacy Policy spell out exactly what we collect and why.
Yes, on both the website and in the app. On the website, the cookie banner lets you reject non-essential analytics; you can revisit that choice any time via Cookie Preferences in the footer.
Inside the app, anonymous crash and analytics sharing is controlled by Improve Coaching in Settings › Coaching Setup — it's off unless you turn it on (the Android app may ask you once). Turning it off stops us from collecting that telemetry from your device.
Opting out doesn't change anything about how your fitness data is used — that's never part of analytics in the first place.
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