Stop Doing These 5 Things When You Train With AI
The 5 habits that keep ChatGPT and Claude guessing about your training, and what to do in place of each one.
Most athletes use ChatGPT or Claude the same way: open a chat, paste in a screenshot, ask for a plan. The answer sounds good and it is built on almost nothing.
These are the 5 habits that cause that. Each one has an easy swap, and the first three take under an hour.
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The 5
Using the basic chat. Move to Claude Code inside an IDE. I use VS Code, and a lot of people use Cursor.
Uploading spreadsheets and screenshots of your workouts. Most companies have an MCP or a public API. Find yours and have Claude connect straight to your data.
Skipping the CLAUDE.md file. It holds a snapshot of your Athlete Profile: who you are and what your goals are.
Relying on built-in memory. Build an LLM wiki to structure your data and the pathways to insights. Add a database if you want to go a step further.
Ending the day with no session write-back. One note every night, so the AI knows exactly what you did, why you did it and how you felt.
I wrote up the fix and the prompt for each one, plus an overview of how to build your own AI agent.
Get the full guide and all 5 prompts
From 5 fixes to your own AI agent
Do all five and you have the first half of an agent: somewhere to work, your real data, a profile of you, a memory and a daily record. The second half is a schedule that runs it every morning, a way to text it, and a home online so it keeps running with your laptop closed.
I've helped over 1,200 athletes build their own AI agents to train. We teach some of these 5 in the free 7 Day Challenge. The more advanced topics, and the second half of the agent, are what we cover in the 4-Week Fitness App Challenge. Doors open Monday, October 12.
Which one are you still doing? Hit reply and let me know.
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