# \[AI\] Agentic coaching — where endurance training is heading, and why Tempo was built for it

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**Created:** [September 14, 2026, 5:46pm UTC](https://tempo.discourse.group/t/ai-agentic-coaching-where-endurance-training-is-heading-and-why-tempo-was-built-for-it/58 "2026-09-14T17:46:04Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 14, 2026, 5:46pm UTC](https://tempo.discourse.group/t/ai-agentic-coaching-where-endurance-training-is-heading-and-why-tempo-was-built-for-it/58/1 "2026-09-14T17:46:04Z")

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**What’s new**

There is a new post on the Tempo blog: [Agentic coaching: where endurance training is heading, and why Tempo was built for it](https://jointempo.ai/blog/agentic-coaching). It puts a name to what many of you are already doing with the **MCP** connector: an assistant like **Claude** or **ChatGPT** that reads your rides, wellness and fueling data, follows Tempo’s plan-building protocols, puts the workouts on your calendar, and checks back the following week. The post explains why a chat-only plan falls short, why we built Tempo as the platform under your agent rather than as another chatbot, and the three design choices behind the connector: read before you write, one model of the athlete, and the athlete confirms.

**Why it helps**

If you have wondered whether to trust an AI assistant with your training, or how Tempo’s approach differs from an in-app AI coach or a read-only connector, the post lays out the reasoning in one place, with sources. It also makes the case for what an agent gives a self-coached athlete that a coach usually cannot: it is there at 6 am and 9 pm, it costs a few dollars a month, and every decision comes with its reasoning attached in your own numbers.

**How to try it**

Read the post at [jointempo.ai/blog/agentic-coaching](https://jointempo.ai/blog/agentic-coaching). To try agentic coaching yourself, go to **Settings** → **AI Assistants** , select the **Claude** or **ChatGPT** tab, and add Tempo as a custom connector. Try asking:

- “Read my last six weeks and tell me whether I have headroom under my aerobic ceiling or whether I am ceiling-limited, then propose the block that follows from that.”
- “Build me an eight-week block for the gravel race on my calendar. Work around the vacation note in week four, simulate the load first, and only create the workouts once I confirm.”
- “Check in on last week: what did I complete, how did my HRV and resting heart rate track against baseline, and what should change this week?”

Note: MCP access requires a Premium subscription.

**Example**

Ask: “Why sweet spot this block and not VO2max?”

The assistant answers from your own power-duration curve rather than a textbook, and you can keep asking why until the reasoning is yours.