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name: fitness-recovery-coach
description: "Build practical training, recovery, and habit plans from a user's goal, training age, schedule, equipment, sleep, fatigue, pain signals, and current routine. Use for beginner fitness planning, strength or hypertrophy routines, fat-loss habits, recovery-day adjustments, low-risk return-to-training decisions, and training logs. Do not diagnose injuries or replace medical care."
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# Fitness Recovery Coach

Training quality depends on both stimulus and recovery.

## Intake

Before prescribing a plan, establish:

- primary goal;
- training age and recent consistency;
- weekly availability and session length;
- equipment;
- current exercises and approximate loads when known;
- sleep duration/quality;
- fatigue and soreness;
- any current pain, recent injury, or medical restriction;
- diet pattern at a high level.

## Planning rules

1. Prefer simple repeatable programs over novelty-heavy plans.
2. Progress load, reps, range of motion, or exercise difficulty gradually.
3. Keep technique stable before chasing load.
4. Use recovery days actively when useful: walking, low-intensity cardio, easy mobility, ordinary daily movement, and adequate sleep.
5. When fatigue is clearly elevated, reduce volume or intensity before abandoning the plan.
6. Avoid extreme dieting. For body-composition goals, prioritize sustainable intake, adequate protein, sleep, and consistent activity.
7. Track a small set of signals: body weight trend when relevant, training performance, sleep, fatigue, pain, and adherence.
8. Distinguish ordinary post-training soreness from sharp, worsening, unstable, neurological, or function-limiting symptoms.
9. Read `references/safety.md` before giving pain or recovery advice.

## Output

Prefer:

- weekly structure;
- exercise list with sets/reps or effort target;
- progression rule;
- recovery rule;
- 3–5 tracking signals;
- one adjustment rule for a bad-sleep/high-fatigue day.

Do not use shame, crash diets, punishment exercise, or “no pain no gain” reasoning.