Snap your lifting weights, and ask the coach about predicted vs actual weight
Two small things take friction out of a training week. Mid-set, you can fill in the weight you're lifting straight from a photo, and when the number on the scale stops matching what your calorie deficit predicted, you can ask your AI Coach to explain the gap, in a proper conversation.
Snap to fill your lifting weights
In the middle of a set, the last thing you want is to fiddle with a keypad. So you don't have to. On an exercise's weight panel, tap "Snap to fill" and point your camera at whatever tells you the load: the number stamped on a dumbbell, the plates on the bar, a machine's display, or the weight you've scribbled in a paper logbook. The coach reads the number and fills in your working weight, and the reps along with it.
- It reads real equipment. Dumbbells, plates, cable stacks, machine screens, or your own handwritten log: you point, it reads.
- You see what it read. The number it picked up is filled in for you to glance at, so a misread is a one-tap correction rather than a re-type.
- It keeps you in the set. A photo instead of a keypad means you log the weight without breaking your rhythm between sets: the accurate record happens on its own.
An accurate weight log is what lets Strathlon track your training volume properly over time, so the less it costs you to record it, the more useful the picture becomes.
Ask the coach about predicted vs actual weight
Strathlon draws two lines on the Body weight chart in the Progress tab: your predicted weight, worked out from the calorie deficit you've been tracking, and your actual weight from the scale, and if your scale syncs to Apple Health, those weigh-ins flow in automatically, with no "update your weight?" tap to confirm. Early on the two lines often disagree, and that's completely normal. Water and glycogen make real weight drop faster than the maths expects at first, so the scale runs ahead of the prediction. Later, your body adapts and the prediction can run ahead of the scale. A gap between the two lines isn't a mistake: it's information. The useful question is why.
When the two lines diverge, the Predicted vs actual figure under the chart shows how far apart they are. Tap "Ask the coach about this" below it. The coach's answer appears right there, with your numbers already loaded: you don't have to explain your own history to it. Tap Continue in the coach to carry on the conversation in the AI Coach tab.
Rather than firing back a guess, it looks at the things that actually move the needle: how many days you logged food, how consistent your weigh-ins have been and, if you share your Apple Health data with the coach, your sleep. Then it usually asks you a question or two before it suggests what's going on. It asks before it guesses, and because it's a proper chat, you can answer, and keep going until the picture makes sense.
If "Share my health data with the AI coach" is off, Strathlon asks whether you'd like to switch it on the first time you tap the button. Either way you get an answer: without it, the coach works from how often you've logged food and weighed in.
Both "Snap to fill" for your lifting weights and "Ask the coach about this" are part of the AI Coach.
Want more on the coach and the charts these features build on? See Your AI Coach and Reading your charts.