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Ask Coach

Questions about your own numbers.

Ask Coach answers questions about your own training and eating from what you have logged. You ask in your own words. Forma reads your log on the phone, works the numbers out there, and gives you the answer.

Ask Coach is part of Forma Power. Everyone sees the speech-bubble button on Today: without Power it opens the plans instead of the sheet.

When to use it

  • You want to read your own numbers without going through each tab: what you did last session, how many sets you did this week, how many calories you have left today.
  • You want one number explained, such as why your target is what it is.
  • You want to know how a lift is going, or whether a food fits your day.
  • You hold Forma Power.

Step by step

  1. On Today, tap the speech-bubble button next to the settings gear at the top right. The sheet opens as Ask Coach.
  2. Type your question in the Ask a question box and tap the arrow to send, or tap one of the Try asking chips for a question Forma suggests.
  3. While it works, a card says Let me check your logs… and the answer appears in place of it.
  4. Read the answer. Every number in it is picked out (heavier type, in Forma's accent colour). Why this answer opens a list of which of your figures were used and where each came from. The app says: "Every number above is worked out by the app from your own logs. None comes from a language model."
  5. If the answer points at a screen to act on, an arrow button opens it: Open Fuel, Open Train, Open Progress or Open Settings.
  6. Tap Close when you are done.

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