This earliest-of-days feature is slowly rolling out to a limited group of Fitbit Premium subscribers, though it barely touches on everything it will do.
Fitbit's personal health coach is finally debuting months after its announcement. The feature is a key part of the new Pixel Watch lineup. It offers fitness plans, progress check-ins, and custom workout routines, all catered to what you tell it. It's slowly rolling out as a public preview today. It will be a while before it's available to every Fitbit Premium user with an active subscription. From what Google has shown so far, the personal health coach is supposed to be the answer to using AI to get fit.
The personal health coach will engage you in a five to ten-minute conversation, the same way you'd engage Gemini, to figure out your personal motivations and goals. It could be anything: losing weight, getting back into shape, or finding movement after a prolonged time on the proverbial bench. The Fitbit personal coach helps with sleep, too, as well as health and wellness questions.
The feature is decidedly half-baked at its current implementation. Mental health, body temperature, and stress management tracking are not yet available. There is no heart rate zone analysis for workouts or reminders if you've been sedentary for too long. Social sharing features aren't available, and you can't export the data you need from a workout summary. Third-party data integration isn't available either, which is completely against my habits since I sync workouts solely through Strava. There is at least the option to switch between the "regular" Fitbit and the public preview as you're testing it. I'll be curious to see how the data syncs after exiting and entering the preview.
The personal health coach feature is very much in its infancy. By opting in, you agree to help the company polish its product through feedback. I will sign up for the public preview to get a feel for what this AI-powered health coach can do beyond what I'm already doing with Gemini. Google said in a briefing that the two "bots" are separate entities for now, so conversations you might have been having with Gemini already won't be factored into the full picture quite yet.
