Garmin watch integration

The Garmin watch integration is the core of LiftTrack. It is a round trip between the app and your watch: you plan in the app, you train on the watch, and the data flows both ways without any manual export. Once you have connected your Garmin account, every workout you save is one tap away from being on your wrist.

How it works

The integration is a five step loop. The first step happens once; the rest happen every workout.

Connect your Garmin account. From Settings, open “Connections” and tap “Connect Garmin Account”. The system browser opens to Garmin’s login. After you authorize LiftTrack, a deep link returns you to the app and Settings updates to show “Unlink Garmin Account”. You only do this once per device.
Build a workout in LiftTrack and save it. Add exercises, sets, reps, rest timers, warmup sets, supersets, and progressions in the Workout Editor. When you tap “Save”, the workout uploads to Garmin Connect in the background. Sync usually finishes in 2 to 5 seconds and the Routine Card icon changes from the grey sync disabled icon to the Garmin Connect logo.
Schedule the workout to a date. Open the workout’s options menu and tap “Schedule Workout” in the Garmin Sync tile. A date picker opens (today through 30 days out). Pick a date and the workout appears on your watch’s calendar for that day. For a repeating week, use the Routine Scheduler from the Upcoming tab instead.
Train on the watch. Start the strength activity on your Garmin watch, pick the LiftTrack workout from the calendar, and follow the prescribed sets and reps. The watch tracks each set, the weight you log, the reps you complete, and the rest periods between sets. RPE values you enter on the watch travel with the activity.
Results sync back to LiftTrack. When you finish the workout, the watch syncs to Garmin Connect over Bluetooth or WiFi. Garmin’s servers then push the activity to LiftTrack’s backend, which downloads the FIT file, parses it, and saves the parsed workout to your History tab. The full round trip from “I pressed stop on my watch” to “the workout is in the app” is typically 5 to 10 seconds.

What you’ll see in the app

A few specifics that anchor the round trip to actual UI.

Routine Card sync indicator. Each routine on the Workouts tab shows a small icon in the bottom right: the Garmin Connect logo when the workout is synced and a grey sync disabled icon when it is not.
Garmin Sync tile (in the workout options menu). The tile cycles through four states based on sync status: “Garmin sync in progress…” (not tappable, while uploading), “Retry sending to Garmin” (failed sync, tap to retry), “Send To Garmin Connect” (not yet sent), and “Schedule Workout” (synced, ready to put on a date). If the account is not linked when you tap “Send To Garmin Connect”, a “Link Garmin Account” prompt appears first.
History tab cards. Completed workouts appear as cards showing duration, calories, and a one line summary of the top set per exercise. If the activity matches a scheduled LiftTrack workout, target sets appear next to actuals with green for exceeding the target and red for falling short.

When this helps

The round trip is useful any time you want your watch to be the source of truth for what happened in the gym while still planning and reviewing on your phone. You write the routine in the editor, send it to the watch, and afterwards your sets, reps, weights, and RPE land in History without any typing on your part. That removes the friction step where most app based tracking quietly breaks down. It also keeps your watch’s strength activity records accurate, so your weekly volume and personal records are based on what you actually did rather than what you remembered to log later.

Setup

You need a Garmin account and a Garmin watch that supports strength training. See the watch compatibility guide for which models qualify.

Connect once from Settings. After connecting, existing workouts do not auto sync. You can either edit each one to trigger a fresh sync, or open the workout options menu and tap “Send To Garmin Connect” on each. New workouts you create after connecting sync automatically when you save them.

If you ever unlink the account, all workout sync statuses are reset to a failed state. Reconnecting does not auto resync; you have to trigger sync on each workout again.

“SetSync — automatic weight and rep progression”: once the round trip is in place, SetSync uses the synced back results to update your routine for next time.
“Workout scheduling” — one off and recurring weekly schedules, both of which rely on the workout being synced to Garmin first.
“Progress Tracking & Analytics” — the History, Exercise Detail, and Analytics views are populated by the activities that sync back from your watch.