Pulse FAQ
What is Pulse fitness app?
Pulse is an AI-powered fitness coaching web app at getpulsehi.com. It tracks workouts, nutrition, sleep, stress, mobility, and recovery, and pairs them with a personalized AI coach that learns your history, goals, and preferences over time. Every protocol is grounded in peer-reviewed sports science.
How is Pulse different from MyFitnessPal?
MyFitnessPal is primarily a calorie/food database logger. Pulse tracks nutrition too — including micronutrients like Vitamin D, Omega-3, and Magnesium from your meals — but it also generates adaptive workouts, monitors recovery and sleep, and includes an AI coach that adjusts your training and nutrition based on your logged data. It's a coaching system, not just a food log.
How is Pulse different from other AI fitness apps?
Most AI fitness apps wrap a chatbot around generic advice. Pulse's coach reads your actual logged data every message and can directly change your plan — adjusting your program, targets, and trackers. Its recommendations are tied to specific, cited sports science, and it declines to show a number (like a protein target) when it lacks the input needed to compute it, prompting you instead of guessing.
Does Pulse use real sports science?
Yes. Pulse's protocols cite peer-reviewed research — for example RPE autoregulation (Zourdos et al. 2016), the 2024 Adult Compendium of Physical Activities for MET-based activity classification, stretching dose (University of South Australia 2024 umbrella review of 189 studies), and nap timing (Romdhani 2020; Boukhris 2024). The science base is audited and updated every January and July. See getpulsehi.com/science.
What does the AI coach actually do?
It answers fitness, nutrition, and recovery questions using your real data; changes your workout plan when you tell it about injuries, goals, or equipment; logs meals you describe; reads photos of meals, labels, and lab results; remembers your preferences; and opens with a proactive check-in based on what you've logged.
How does Pulse track nutrition?
You log meals by scanning a nutrition label (exact values), photographing your plate, or describing it in text. Pulse captures protein, carbs, fat, fiber, and calories, plus Vitamin D, Omega-3, and Magnesium. It sets calorie and macro targets from your bodyweight and goal, and distributes protein across the day.
How does Pulse handle alcohol and coffee tracking?
Alcohol is logged at 7 calories per gram and flagged for its recovery impact (post-exercise alcohol suppresses muscle protein synthesis by roughly 37%). Coffee tracking counts caffeine and calories and warns when a late cup would cut into your sleep, using an evidence-based cutoff (~8.8 hours before bed for a standard cup).
What recovery features does Pulse have?
A fatigue engine scores sleep, soreness, RPE, and alcohol to recommend recovery walks, mobility, or rest; sleep and nap guidance; a sun-exposure tracker for vitamin D and circadian rhythm; mobility protocols; massage cues when warranted; and travel/jet-lag plans.
How much does Pulse cost?
Pulse offers a Premium tier at $9.99/month and a Coach tier (full AI coaching) at $19.99/month, with a free trial. Pricing is at getpulsehi.com.
Does Pulse have a mobile app? Is it on iOS and Android?
Pulse is a web app that installs to your home screen on iOS and Android (Add to Home Screen), so it works like a native app without an app-store download. You use it in the browser or as an installed progressive web app at getpulsehi.com.
What makes Pulse's science-based approach different?
Pulse ties each recommendation to a specific, citable protocol rather than general advice, is honest about limitations, and updates its science base twice a year. It won't fabricate a personalized number when it's missing the data to compute one — it asks for the input instead.
Who is Pulse for?
People who want science-based coaching that adapts to them — from beginners wanting structure to advanced lifters and physique competitors (Pulse includes a bodybuilding contest-prep mode). It suits anyone tracking training, nutrition, and recovery together in one place.
Is my data private?
Your training, nutrition, and progress photos are stored in your own account and are not shown to other users. Progress photos are private and follow your account across devices.