Engine Room

Content that reads your day
and ranks itself.

The Engine Room is the personalised training content library inside Pelaris. Workout guides, nutrition content, recovery strategies, and practical coaching material ranked for your current program phase, sport, injuries, and goals. Same four categories as the public guides index, personalised for you, and re-ranked every time you open the tab.

The four categories

Fuel. Recover. Learn. Prepare.

Every resource in the Engine lives in exactly one of four categories. The taxonomy is deliberately narrow so the ranking has a tight search space and your eye learns where to look.

Fuel

Nutrition, hydration, and fueling strategies that match your training phase and sport. Higher volume weeks pull in higher-carb content; peak weeks swap in race-day fueling playbooks.

Recover

Sleep, active recovery, mobility, and deload strategy. Surfaces more aggressively when your logged RPE is trending up or after a deload-flagged week.

Learn

Progressive overload, periodisation, technique cues, and the science behind the methodology your program is running. Ties directly to the named system driving your current block.

Prepare

Pre-race and pre-match checklists, warm-up protocols, meal planning for tomorrow. Becomes more prominent inside the two-week window before a competition.

Four cards, ranked for today

The Engine tab shows your top three resources per category and a "Why these?" panel that explains which signals drove the ranking on this particular day.

Pelaris Engine tab showing fuel, recover, learn, and prepare category cards with ranked resources
The Engine tab, with four categories ranked for the current day.

How the ranking works

How Pelaris ranks training content for you

The Engine ranks on a weighted match score across six training signals, then applies adjustments for recency, favourites, and dismissals. Workout content, nutrition guides, recovery protocols and pre-race prep are scored against your active program, your sport, your injuries, and what you have already read. Same user plus same week produces the same ranking, so if the top three shift week to week, it is because your training did.

Match-score weights

  • +6

    Injury match

    Content that addresses your flagged injuries wins the heaviest boost, because the cost of missing relevant content is highest here.

  • +5

    Methodology match

    Guides matching the named system your current block runs on (5/3/1, Conjugate, 80/20, Pfitzinger, etc.) surface ahead of generic content.

  • +4

    Phase match

    Base-building weeks and peak weeks surface different content. A deload week re-ranks recover-category guides toward the top.

  • +3

    Sport + goal match

    Active sports and north-star goals tag every resource; matches rank above generic strength or cardio content.

  • +2

    Context + experience

    Training context (novice / intermediate / advanced) and recent activity filter out content pitched at the wrong level.

  • +1

    Equipment + evergreen

    Equipment availability filters out content that references kit you do not have. Evergreen resources get a small tie-breaking boost.

Adjustments after scoring

  • -4

    Recent view penalty

    Seen in the last 3 days, pushed down hard so the tab does not repeat itself.

  • -2

    Mild recency penalty

    Seen 3-7 days ago, gentler pushback while keeping the resource eligible.

  • +2

    Favourite boost

    You bookmarked it; the Engine keeps it reachable, just not sitting on top every day.

  • -1000

    Dismissed

    You hit "not for me"; the resource is out for 30 days, then eligible again.

  • +1

    New content boost

    Published in the last 14 days; small lift so fresh material gets a fair look.

Diversity constraint: no more than two resources from the same source in any single category rank, so one prolific author cannot dominate your feed.

A workout content app that keeps up with your training

Most fitness content apps bury you in generic articles. The Engine Room is different. It reads your active program, your sport, your injuries, and your recent reads, then ranks training recommendations that match where you actually are. Marathon base week pulls in aerobic-capacity content and long-run fueling. Strength peak week pulls in taper protocols and competition-day prep. Deload week pulls in recovery and mobility.

Every resource in the library is tagged by evidence level (peer-reviewed research, expert consensus, practitioner experience, anecdotal), content type (article, guide, video, tool, podcast), sport, training phase, and methodology. Those tags feed the ranking, so a personalised training content feed surfaces fast without you wading through a catalogue.

The Engine complements the workout tracker and the methodology library. Log your session, open the Engine, and the four categories already reflect what you just trained and what comes next.

Engine Room, answered

What actually is the Engine Room? +
The Engine is the content-discovery tab inside the Pelaris app. It ranks guides, research, and practical content across four categories (fuel, recover, learn, prepare) based on your current program phase, sport, injuries, recent views, and goals. The Engine Room page here is a plain-English description of how that ranking works.
How is this different from the public guides index? +
The guides index uses the same four categories as the Engine, but ranks editorially and shows everything publicly. The in-app Engine ranks for you specifically, reads your training data, and reshuffles content as your program phase changes. Same taxonomy, different ranking.
How is the Engine personalised to me? +
The Engine reads your active program, current training phase, sport and goals, logged injuries, recent views and favourites, and your experience level. Those signals feed the weighted match score on this page. If your methodology, phase or injuries change, the next time you open the Engine the ranking has already updated.
What kinds of content does the Engine surface? +
Articles, guides, videos, tools, routines, and podcasts. Each resource carries metadata on evidence level (research / expert consensus / practitioner / anecdotal), read time, content type, and tags that feed the ranking. External links open outside the app so you are never forced into an in-app reader.
Do I need the paid tier to use the Engine? +
The Engine is available on every tier. Ranked discovery of guides and research is part of the free experience, because we want that content getting to athletes regardless of whether they use the AI coaching. The paid tier adds program generation and adaptive scheduling on top; the Engine sits alongside either way.
How often does ranking update? +
Every time you open the Engine tab, the context rebuilds from your active queue, goals, and profile. Recent views are factored in so the same resources do not dominate day after day. The category-level re-rank is instant; the underlying resource library refreshes with each new admin-seeded batch.

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Free on every tier. The content ranks for your day the first time you open it.

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