“Claude Code as a Claude Coach” by Brendan Long

Exercise is hard but it's even harder if you have to use your brain and muscles at the same time. I wish a personal trainer would just teleport into my house whenever I work out, tell me exactly what to do, and then record my progress (and complaints) to improve the program going forward. Apps are too rigid or too complicated; personal trainers are expensive and require scheduling, but using Claude Code as a personal trainer has worked out well for me.

I'm still inconsistent, but more consistent than I used to be! My weekly workouts of any type averaged ~1 per week before this. Note that this graph starts when I started using Claude Coach, because it was too annoying to track this before.

A Typical Day

I drag myself out of bed, drink some coffee and electrolytes (separately, I'm not a monster), and then walk down to the gym in the basement. I open the Claude Code tab in the Claude Android app, select the brendanlong/claude-coach repo, and ask:

What should I do today?

Claude reads the repo's instructions and logs and asks about:

• Location (home, commercial gym, hotel)
• Time and energy levels (short [...]

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Outline:

(00:55) A Typical Day

(02:40) Exception Handling

(03:27) The Setup

(04:24) Your Setup

The original text contained 1 footnote which was omitted from this narration.

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First published:
July 6th, 2026

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/J7brEsreXSrHpHH3v/claude-code-as-a-claude-coach

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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