What is Pelaris?
Pelaris is an AI coaching app that generates a personalised, periodized training program and then adjusts it as you go, based on your performance, fatigue, and goals. It runs in the browser at coach.pelaris.io and as apps on iOS and Android. It is built in Melbourne, Australia.
The Strava connection is currently switched off. Pelaris's own integrations page says: "Strava sync is temporarily unavailable. Strava has changed API access for third-party developers, which has paused our integration." Everything they built for it is still there and they say sync returns when access is restored, but as of September 2026 you cannot connect Strava to Pelaris. Apple Health and Health Connect still work, so on a phone you can get your training in that way instead.
"AI coach" is a crowded category and a lot of it is fluff, so it's worth being specific about what this one actually does. The program isn't static. Each session you complete feeds the next one, so volume, intensity, and exercise selection shift over time rather than following a fixed plan.
Key Features
Adaptive periodized programs
Pelaris builds a structured, periodized program for your goals and adjusts it as you train. It describes the generation as a five-layer LLM pipeline covering athlete profiling, methodology selection, periodization architecture, session construction, and exercise prescription. Hit a PR or miss a week and the program reacts.
Multi-sport in one program
It handles strength, running, swimming, cycling, triathlon, Hyrox, CrossFit, tennis, general fitness and a set of team sports including rugby, AFL, soccer, basketball, cricket and netball, and it can run several of them inside a single cohesive program rather than treating each sport as a separate plan. Useful if you're a hybrid athlete juggling lifting and endurance.
Set tracking and PR detection
For strength work it does real-time set tracking with progressive overload, and weights auto-adjust based on your last session. It also detects personal records automatically and feeds that back into the program.
Claude and ChatGPT integration via MCP
Pelaris exposes a Model Context Protocol server, so you can drive it from Claude or ChatGPT. The site lists 31 tools available through it, covering things like daily check-ins, swapping exercises, and generating a full program from inside the chat.
Read-only, and scrubbed before it reaches the model
Pelaris says it reads workouts and heart rate only, nothing else, and only with the permission you grant on iOS or Android. It scrubs personally identifiable information before sending anything to the AI, and states your data is never sold or shared. You can disconnect and delete it at any time.
Who It's For
- Self-coached hobbyist athletes who want structure without paying for a human coach
- Hybrid and multi-sport athletes, since folding several sports into one program is the actual differentiator
- Not Strava users, for now — until the integration is restored, your rides only reach Pelaris through Apple Health or Health Connect
- If you mostly want raw analytics rather than told-what-to-do programming, a platform like intervals.icu is a better match
