I used chat-GPT to help make a plan to train for a 5k in three months. I gave it a pretty specific task with details about me. “Im planning to run a 5k for the first time in 3 months Im 6’0′ 215 lbs and in decent physical shape, but have never done long distance running. Give me a plan that can help me finish the 5k in decent time.” Its first response was very well put together and made sense but it was very broad, so then I asked it “how many times a week should I do each thing.” It then gave a much more specific plan that I liked. I then asked it “is there anything that can be improved in training plan”. It gave me improvements but did not implement them to the plan until it was asked to afterward.
the images above are the final draft of the 12 week 5k training plan
I found that details and specificity is always best when prompting. I learned that if you ask ai if it finished the prompt previously asked that it will often times tell you no the first time and add things that were missed.
prompting help: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/10032626-prompt-engineering-best-practices-for-chatgpt
It was really interesting to learn about your findings, and thank you for the link to help with prompting.
Hey Braydon,
I think the final training plan you got looks very manageable if you’re really motivated to reach that goal haha.
Maybe you could have gotten a better response faster by combining it with the persona pattern, adding something like:
“Im planning to run a 5k for the first time in 3 months Im 6’0′ 215 lbs and in decent physical shape, but have never done long distance running. *** Imagine you are a personal coach/sports scientist/… ***, give me a plan that can help me finish the 5k in decent time.”
Also, thanks for the link to this article by ChatGPT on a selection of useful prompt patterns. In the future, I’d like to try the tone specification to improve my outputs.