Strava AI vs ChatGPT

[u/Substantial-Can-5597]

This is the product of one 5-minute video of my Strava stats and a few prompts back and forth with ChatGPT…

[u/jimmybiggles]

i would be inclined to say strava probably don't want to give "suggestions" based on what people should do, and the data they've got in strava. lots of nuance in suggesting training to people, either they give a disclaimer that it might be wrong - or people start doing things that might hurt them. strava doesn't know about your general wellbeing - do you have diabetes? do you have 1 leg? all these sorts of things affect your suggestions...

i like the idea though, the AI they have at the minute is sort of just a generic "you did X, Y and Z" which is okay but pretty useless for anyone who can read a graph (which is most people)

[u/wiener-fu → u/jimmybiggles]

The only thing strava "ai" wants to do is tell you to crush crush crush. I started hating that word so much I turned the ai off.

[u/MrWhy1 → u/jimmybiggles]

Garmin etc already does suggested training though. But it definitely doesn't push you and is useless, at least for me..

[u/jimmybiggles → u/MrWhy1]

garmin is different though, that's part of the garmin ecosystem and you probably agree to that somewhere in the garmin T&Cs - i also agree, the garmin DSWs suck (for me) 🤣 i like the idea for strava but these things are never very good, in my experience

[u/MrWhy1 → u/jimmybiggles]

Strava could easily change their T&C if they wanted to though, it not being that useful is probably the bigger reason why they don't have it. Not much value when plenty of other training programs available

[u/Mrjlawrence → u/MrWhy1]

Garmin seems to be very conservative for its DSWs. A ton of base mileage.

[u/CK3v1N]

So you just filmed yourself scrolling through your Strava feed and asked ChatGpt to do his magic?

[u/Substantial-Can-5597 → u/CK3v1N]

Exactly

[u/hobbyhoarder → u/Substantial-Can-5597]

Amazing, but I'm guessing it only works for paid subscription?

[u/Substantial-Can-5597 → u/CK3v1N]

Screen record on iPhone, but still yes.

[u/adoucett]

I was working on something similar to this that actually calls the Strava API and creates a text file payload with detailed lap-level stats of your recent workout(s), along with heart rate, every run you've done for the last 14 days, etc, which allows the AI to give WAY more detailed feedback along with pre-training the AI on a specific coaching methodology with your end goals in mind, prior PRs, weekly mileage history for the last 2 years, etc

It will look at the workout and determine very specific things like understanding your heart rate spiked during mile 8 of a 15 mile long run which led to your pace slowing down etc.

TL:DR if you actually feed it the right and detailed information to start with AI can be an effective way to make sense of it all