How to Add Custom Exercises to Garmin Connect

LiftTrack lets you create custom exercises that are not in Garmin’s built-in library. Custom exercises behave like any other exercise inside LiftTrack and ride along when you send a workout to your watch.

How it works

You can create a custom exercise from the exercise library or from inside a workout you’re building.

From the Workouts tab, open “Exercises” and tap the ”+” button to open the Create Exercise page.
Or, when adding exercises to a workout, search for a name that does not exist. The empty search state shows a “Create Custom Exercise” button that opens the same page with the search query pre-filled as the exercise name.
On the Create Exercise page, fill in the “Exercise Name” (50 characters max), an optional “Description” for form notes, the equipment, the primary muscles (at least one is required), and any optional secondary muscles.
Tap “Save”. The exercise is added to your library and is available in search and filter results immediately.
Add it to any workout the same way you add built-in exercises — open a workout, tap “Add Exercises”, and select it from the library.

What you’ll see in the app

The exercise library treats custom exercises as a first-class category alongside Garmin’s built-in ones.

A “Custom” filter chip sits in the category row alongside “All”, “Recent”, and “Video”. Tapping it narrows the list to exercises you created.
Each custom exercise card shows a three-dot menu with “Edit”, “Details”, and “Delete Exercise”. Built-in exercise cards just show a chevron.
Inside a workout, custom exercises render as Exercise Builder Cards with the same set table, rest options, warmup configuration, and progression options as built-in exercises.
If you try to create an exercise with a name that already exists in your library, the form shows a duplicate name error so you can pick a different one.

When this helps

Custom exercises are useful any time you train with movements LiftTrack’s built-in library does not name — a sled push, an atypical machine variation, gym-specific apparatus, or a movement your coach calls something LiftTrack does not. Adding a custom exercise lets your routine reflect what you actually do, with the right name in your history and the right muscle tags in your analytics, instead of forcing you to substitute a similar but not identical movement.

What this looks like on Garmin

The Garmin Connect web view treats custom exercises differently from built‑in ones — here is what to expect.

During the workout, your watch shows the exercise as a strength step and counts your sets and reps the same as for any built-in exercise. The LiftTrack app stores the activity under the original custom name when it syncs back.
In Garmin Connect, the exercise category and exercise name fields are not filled in on custom exercise steps. Garmin Connect does not know about LiftTrack’s exercise library, so a custom exercise can show up as a generic strength step there rather than under your chosen name.
LiftTrack identifies the custom exercise internally using metadata embedded in the workout. When the completed workout syncs back from your watch, LiftTrack uses that metadata to restore the original custom exercise name in your History tab.

Inside LiftTrack the custom name is preserved end to end; in Garmin Connect’s web view the same step may appear as a generic strength entry.

“AI Workout Survey” — answer four questions and get a generated workout you can edit, including any custom exercises you’ve added.
“Garmin watch integration” — how the round-trip between LiftTrack and your Garmin watch works for any workout, custom exercises included.