LiftTrack is a strength training app that plans your training around you. Set your goal, schedule and equipment in your Coach Profile. Then follow a program, build your own workouts, or ask Max, the coach in the app, for one. Track each set on your phone or your Garmin watch. After every session, LiftTrack updates your history, personal records and next targets. The Training screen shows what your week trained.

LiftTrack workouts run in your watch’s built in Strength activity, so your watch needs Strength workouts. Check Garmin’s compatibility list for your model before you buy Premium for watch training. For help choosing a watch, see the best Garmin for weightlifting.

No. LiftTrack workouts run in your watch’s built in Strength activity, so there is nothing to install from Connect IQ. The older LiftTrack Connect IQ app is retired, which is why you will not find it in the Connect IQ store.

Yes. You can build and schedule workouts, track them on your phone, and review your history and progress without a Garmin watch or account. Sessions tracked on your phone stay in LiftTrack.

Once you connect Garmin in Home > Profile > Connections, LiftTrack sends every workout to Garmin Connect when you save it, and again after every edit. There is no separate sync button to find. A green check on a workout’s Garmin button means Garmin Connect has the latest version, and your watch picks it up the next time it syncs with the Garmin Connect app.

On the watch, start the workout from your workouts list and train. When you save it and your watch syncs with Garmin Connect, the session comes back to LiftTrack with your sets, reps and weights. Heart rate, duration and calories stay in Garmin Connect as usual.

Scheduling is optional. It places the workout on your Garmin calendar for that day, but you can start any LiftTrack workout from the watch at any time. See how Garmin sync works.

A workout tracked on your phone saves to LiftTrack only; LiftTrack does not send it to Garmin Connect or Strava. To get a session into Garmin Connect, and from there to Strava, record it on your watch.

Yes. The session arrives in LiftTrack with its time, duration and calories but no exercises, because the watch recorded none. Open it and add what you did by searching exercises, or with Premium, by taking a photo of your notes or describing the session. See record on your Garmin, fill in the details after.

Workouts you built in Garmin Connect or in another app do not come to LiftTrack. Build the workout in LiftTrack instead, and sessions from it come back with every set filled in.

Open the workout in LiftTrack and check its Garmin button: a green check means Garmin Connect has it. Then open the Garmin Connect app on your phone so your watch syncs, and look in your watch’s workouts list. If it is still missing, see how to fix a workout that is not on your watch.

A session reaches LiftTrack only after your watch syncs with Garmin Connect, so open Garmin Connect first. Also check that Home > Profile > Connections shows Disconnect Garmin, which means Garmin is connected.

Exercise details couldn’t sync means your watch ran an old copy of the workout that no longer exists in Garmin Connect. LiftTrack keeps the totals but cannot match the sets to exercises. To avoid it, open Garmin Connect so your watch syncs before you start a workout. See how to fix a Garmin workout missing from LiftTrack.

Garmin watches only display exercise names from Garmin’s own catalog. A custom exercise, or a LiftTrack exercise Garmin does not know, shows as Go (or the word for it in your watch’s language). The exercise name is in the step’s notes, and the session still comes back to LiftTrack under the right exercise. See how custom exercises work on your Garmin.

No. Your watch runs the copy of the workout it synced before you started. To change the plan, edit the workout in LiftTrack and let your watch sync with the Garmin Connect app before you start. During the session you can skip an exercise, and afterwards you can edit the completed workout in LiftTrack.

Not yet. Every saved workout goes to Garmin Connect and your watch while Garmin is connected. To keep the list on your watch short, delete workouts you no longer use.

Garmin’s API caps a single workout at 100 steps, so LiftTrack stops a save that would go over rather than letting the sync fail. Steps add up faster than most people expect, because a rest timer is its own step. A set with a rest timer costs two steps, not one.

Everything that counts toward the total:

• Each set, working sets and warmup sets alike
• Each rest timer, including any set to Lap button press
• Each lap button press added between exercises
• The workout level Warmup toggle, which adds one

The fastest way back under the limit is to set the rest timer to OFF on your accessory exercises. That saves a step per set without changing the training, and on a long session it typically frees 20 to 30 steps on its own. Lap button press is not free; only OFF removes the step.

If you need more room after that, trim sets, remove exercises, turn off the lap button presses between exercises, or split the session into two workouts such as Part A and Part B. Each workout gets its own 100 step budget, and a session that long is easier to follow on your watch in two pieces.

Progressions are turned on per exercise. Open the exercise in the workout and add a progression. Without one, the review only offers Update Template, which copies what you actually did into the workout, so after a missed set it lowers your numbers.

A progression raises the targets only when every working set meets its planned weight and reps. At the end of the review, Next time shows the new targets; tap Accept to apply them. See how progressions work.

Yes. Create a superset to alternate exercises, including left and right sides of a single arm or single leg movement. A superset runs one round per set, so for a circuit, put the exercises in one superset and give each exercise one set per round.

There is no direct import. The fastest way to move a plan is to create a workout from a photo or description: take a screenshot of the workout in your old app and LiftTrack fills in the exercises and sets. You can also export your LiftTrack history to CSV at any time.

Yes. If an exercise is not in the library, create a custom exercise with your own name and equipment. Custom exercises sync to your watch, where they show as Go with the exercise name in the step notes, because Garmin only displays names from its own catalog.

Go to Home > Profile > Workout Settings > Weight units and choose kilograms or pounds. LiftTrack sends each workout to Garmin in the unit it was saved with, so open an existing workout and save it again to send it in the new unit. Your watch picks it up the next time it syncs with the Garmin Connect app.

Fix it in LiftTrack. Open the session and edit the completed workout to correct any set. Your LiftTrack history, personal records and progressions use the numbers you save there.

The exercise uses lap button rest, which counts up until you press the lap button. Set a rest time on the exercise in LiftTrack to get a countdown on the watch. See how the rest timer works.

LiftTrack calculates volume as weight times reps, so a set with no weight adds 0 to your volume even when it synced perfectly. If you want bodyweight sets counted, enter your body weight in the weight field.

Your total volume (also shown as “Total Moved”) counts working sets only. Warmup sets are left out on purpose, because their job is to prepare your body, not to add training stimulus. Including them would inflate the number and make it harder to track real progress over time.

This is the same approach used by other major strength apps like Hevy and Strong.

You can spot warmup sets easily: in the app they carry a “W” badge, and when you copy or share a workout as text, each warmup set is marked “(warmup)”. Every set you log is still saved and visible, so nothing is lost. Only working sets feed into your volume total, personal records, and trends.

The free plan includes 3 workouts of your own, phone tracking, sending workouts to your Garmin, a weekly schedule, progressions and your full workout history. Connecting ChatGPT or Claude to read your data is also free.

Premium adds unlimited workouts, Max, the coach inside LiftTrack, programs, the Training screen, creating workouts from a photo or description, and letting ChatGPT or Claude create and edit workouts for you. See plans and prices in the app under Home > Profile > Upgrade to Premium.

Premium is billed by the App Store or Google Play, so cancellations and refunds go through the store you bought from. Open Home > Profile > Manage Subscription to reach it. Premium stays active until the end of the period you paid for, and deleting the app does not cancel it. See how to manage your subscription.

On iPhone, open Home > Profile > Manage Subscription and choose the other plan.

Google Play often does not offer a plan change. Cancel the monthly plan instead; Premium stays active until the end of the month you paid for. Then subscribe to the yearly plan from Home > Profile > Upgrade to Premium.

Make sure you are logged in to the LiftTrack account you bought Premium with, then close LiftTrack completely and open it again. If Profile still shows Upgrade to Premium, tap it and use the restore option on the Premium screen instead of buying again. If Premium is still locked, see how to fix Premium access after a purchase.

Max, the coach inside LiftTrack, needs Premium. Open the Coach tab, or tap Ask Max on the Training card or in your active program. See ask Max, your coach in LiftTrack.

LiftTrack also has an official ChatGPT app and Claude connector. Reading your workouts and history is free; creating and editing workouts needs Premium. If ChatGPT can read your data but cannot create workouts, disconnect LiftTrack and connect it again. See how to connect LiftTrack to your AI assistant.

No. Only one workout will appear in Strava. When you record a workout on your Garmin watch and it uploads to Strava, LiftTrack finds that existing Strava activity and updates the title and description with your detailed strength-workout information instead of creating a second activity.

You can keep using your normal flow for cardio and strength: record workouts on your Garmin watch, let Garmin sync them to Strava, and then sync your completed workouts from your Garmin watch to LiftTrack. LiftTrack enhances the existing Strava activity so your feed reflects what you actually did in that session, without any duplicates.