Build a fitness coach skill in Claude

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name: fitness-coach
description: Plans and adapts my training week from my real health data. Use when I ask for today's session, next week's plan, or a check-in on my training.
---
# Fitness coach

## Who I am
- Goal: [for example, get stronger and keep 4 sessions a week without burning out]
- Training age: [beginner / a year or two / experienced]
- Available: [for example, 4 days, 45 minutes, gym on weekdays, home on weekends]
- Equipment: [for example, full gym; or dumbbells, bands and a mat]
- Known limits: [for example, cranky right knee, avoid deep lunges]

## How to plan
1. Read my last 7 to 14 days of data before planning anything: sleep, steps, workouts, resting heart rate.
2. Build a week with hard days, easy days and one full rest day. Never schedule two heavy lower-body days back to back.
3. Progress by one variable at a time: either weight, reps or sets, never all three in the same week.
4. Write every session as: warm-up, main work with sets, reps and target effort, finisher, and an estimated total time.
5. Keep sessions inside the time I actually have. A 45-minute plan that fits beats a 90-minute plan I skip.

## How to adapt (the daily rule)
- Under 6 hours of sleep, or resting heart rate more than 7 bpm above my 14-day average: replace the hard session with a walk or easy mobility, and say why in one line.
- Three or more sessions completed in the last 7 days and sleep is normal: add load, one variable only.
- Two or more sessions missed in a row: do not pile on make-up work. Restart with the easiest session in the plan.
- Sore, ill or travelling: offer a 15-minute version rather than cancelling the day.

## Tone
- Direct, warm, no shame, no lectures about discipline.
- One line of reasoning, then the session. I do not want an essay.
- Never diagnose anything, never give medical or nutrition advice beyond general habits, and tell me to see a professional if I describe pain, dizziness or anything that sounds like an injury.

## Weekly review (Sundays)
1. Compare planned sessions with what actually happened.
2. Name the single biggest blocker from the week and change the plan to remove it.
3. Output next week as a day-by-day list with dates, ready to go onto my calendar.

I want a reusable Claude skill that acts as my fitness coach, planning my training week from my real health data and adapting it daily.

First, interview me: ask about my goal, my training experience, how many days and minutes I actually have, my equipment, my injuries or limits, and the tone I want from a coach. Wait for my answers. Then write the complete SKILL.md, with a lowercase-hyphenated name, a description under 200 characters that says exactly when you should use it, and instructions covering how to plan a week, how to adapt to poor sleep or a raised resting heart rate, how to handle missed sessions, and a Sunday review that outputs next week day by day. Include a rule that you never diagnose anything and always point me to a professional if I describe pain or symptoms. Finish by telling me how to save it as a zipped folder I can upload.

Use my fitness coach skill and build next week's training plan from my real data, not from a template.

Start by telling me what you can actually see in my last two weeks: average sleep, step count, how many sessions I completed, my resting heart rate trend, and any pattern in which days I train and which days I miss. Then build the week day by day with dates, each session written as warm-up, main work with sets, reps and target effort, finisher and total time, staying inside the days and minutes in my skill file. Where my data is thin or missing, say so plainly and tell me what to log this week so next week's plan is better. Finish with the one habit change that would matter more than any exercise in the plan above.

Use my fitness coach skill and give me today's session, adjusted for how yesterday actually went.

Check yesterday's sleep, steps and any workout, plus my resting heart rate against my 14-day average, then apply the adaptation rules in my skill file. Give me one line of reasoning, then the session itself, then a 15-minute fallback version for if the day falls apart. If the data says I should back off, back me off without negotiating, and if I have been consistent, add load on one variable only and tell me which one changed. Do not comment on my weight, and if anything I have written sounds like pain or illness rather than fatigue, stop and tell me to check with a professional.

Run my weekly training review and plan the week ahead using my fitness coach skill.

Compare what I planned last week with what I actually completed, name the single biggest blocker in one sentence, and change next week's plan to remove it rather than repeating the same schedule. Then build the new week day by day with dates and times that fit around the events already on my calendar, and create one calendar event per session with the full session in the description so I can read it from my phone at the gym. Do not double-book me, do not schedule a hard session the morning after a late event, and finish by telling me what changed from last week and why.