Online fitness coaching from TriageFit, with a real coach alongside

Choosing an online fitness coach comes down to two things: how much the coach knows about you before your first session, and how often they look again once you have started. TriageFit answers the first with an intake of about thirty minutes and the second with a check-in every week, after which it rebuilds your plan around what that week showed, and a real coach reads the check-in too.

One intake, and a plan built from it

The intake asks about your goals, your training history, any injuries, the way your weeks actually run and the equipment you can reach. It takes about thirty minutes, and you can save it and come back, which helps when an honest answer needs a look at your diary first. Everything that follows is built from those answers: your training, your nutrition targets, your recovery and the habits you work on, each set from what you told us rather than picked from a shelf of presets.

A few answers in the intake's health screen, such as chest pain during exercise, hold your programme until your GP says it is safe for you to exercise, and you release it yourself with a button on your plan page. An old injury, a history that changes what is sensible, a goal pulling against the hours you have: those are the cases where a person should see the plan before you do, and one does.

A week with TriageFit, start to finish

Your programme runs in blocks of 4 weeks, and inside each block the week is where the coaching happens.

You train from the plan in the app. Each session lists its exercises with coaching cues, the main lifts have video, and the library runs to 382 exercises, so a swapped-in movement comes with its own cues. You log what you did as you go, and progressive overload tracking keeps the record of what you lifted last time and whether it moved. The effort you are asked for adjusts to how you are recovering, so a run of poor recovery shows up in what the session asks of you.

When the week does not go to plan, the AI coach is the first place to say so, at any hour. It can trim a session you have no time for, move one to another day, swap an exercise your gym is missing, or take the week off when you are ill. Every change is a proposal you confirm, so nothing moves without your say. If you describe pain, it proposes a swap and tells you when a physio should see it.

Once a week you check in, which takes a few minutes. You go through last week's focus, the sessions you did and how they felt, what life threw at you, your habits and nutrition, an optional weigh-in and your win for the week, with quick ratings for energy, recovery, motivation, sleep and stress. Anything you logged during the week is already filled in. Within seconds of sending it, TriageFit writes you a coaching message about the week, and a real coach reads the check-in as well. Your plan for the next week is rebuilt around what it shows, so a week of poor sleep, a heavy deadline or a lift that stalled changes what you are asked to do next.

Nutrition moves on the same weekly rhythm. Calorie targets are matched to your metabolism, your macros are adjusted each week, protein is spread across your day, and a long run of dieting is flagged so that a diet break can be offered.

Recovery, habits and the rest of your week

Training and food hold up better when sleep, stress and recovery are coached alongside them. TriageFit tracks how regular and how good your sleep is, uses heart-rate variability and resting heart rate to judge how recovered you are each day, and asks about stress in the check-in so a hard week at work is treated as a hard week. If you wear a device, data from Apple, Garmin, Whoop, Oura and Fitbit can be imported, and coaching can take your cycle into account if you choose to track it.

Alongside the training there are 48 lessons from our course material, a journal, and a habit system built on if-then plans, which turn "I will train more" into "when I get home on Tuesday, I change and go straight out". Quarterly and annual reviews look back over what changed. Progress photos sit on a timeline, body-composition trends and performance tests are tracked alongside them, and a progress link lets you share how far you have come.

Where a real coach comes in

TriageFit is the coach you deal with every day. It builds your programme and your targets, adjusts them as your weeks change, answers your questions at any hour and writes the coaching message that follows each check-in. A real coach works alongside it, and their time goes on the parts of coaching that need a person's judgement: reading your check-ins, reviewing the form-check videos you send and answering questions in the group.

The group is where members ask the coaching team, and the answers are given in the open, so the next person with the same question finds it already answered. A check-in that says something has changed, a squat that needs a second look and a question the plan did not anticipate all reach a person, while the everyday changes happen at any hour without waiting for one.

The method behind all of it comes from Triage Method, the coaching business TriageFit grew out of. The coach-designed phases your training runs in and the lessons in the app both come from there.

What online fitness coaching costs here

TriageFit costs €50 every 4 weeks, which is the length of a training block, or €500 paid once, which saves €150 against paying block by block for a year. On the block plan that works out at about €12.50 a week. VAT is included in the price you see, and there is one plan with no tiers, so the check-ins, the form reviews, the group and the AI coach come with every membership.

You can pause or cancel from inside the app without writing to anyone. A pause holds your place and your history, and a cancellation takes effect at the end of the period you have already paid for.

To see how that sits against a trainer in a gym, what a personal trainer costs sets out the usual ways people pay for coaching and what each one buys. A trainer in a gym sees the sessions you do together, and TriageFit sees every session you logged that week, wherever you did it, as does the coach who reads your check-in.

Who it suits best

It suits someone who wants a plan written around their own life, rebuilt every week, with a person reading along. People training at home with a few dumbbells, people with a full gym, people coming back after a long break and people who have trained for years and want someone else to do the programming all start from the same intake, because the plan is built from what each of them has.

If one part of this matters more to you than the rest, it has its own page. An online personal trainer covers one-to-one attention at a distance, the AI personal trainer covers the part of the week the software handles, weekly check-in coaching goes deeper on the check-in itself, and fitness and nutrition coaching covers how the food side fits the training.

Coaching through pregnancy is declined in the app and referred on to Triage Method, and your GP or midwife is the right person to ask what training suits you then.

How to start

Choose a plan on the pricing page, create your account and pay, and the intake opens straight after. You can answer it at your own pace, saving as you go. When it is finished your first block is built and your first week starts, unless an answer in your health screen needs your doctor's go-ahead first. From then on the rhythm is the one described above: train, log, tell the AI coach when something changes, check in once a week, and let the plan move with you.