Record on your Garmin, fill in the details after

You train with nothing loaded on your watch and finish with a full entry in LiftTrack. The example session is Barbell Deadlift for 3 sets of 5 at 225 lb and Bent-over Row with Barbell for 3 sets of 8 at 135 lb. Use your own lifts and numbers.

Before you start

• A Garmin watch paired with the Garmin Connect app on your phone.
• Your Garmin connected to LiftTrack. In LiftTrack, go to Home > Profile > Connections and tap Connect Garmin if it is still there.
• The LiftTrack app, signed in, with notifications allowed if you want an alert when the session arrives.

Record the session on your watch

1. On your watch, start the Strength activity without choosing a workout, and lift as usual.
2. When you finish, save the activity on the watch.
3. Open the Garmin Connect app on your phone so the watch syncs.

Garmin Connect passes the session to LiftTrack. When it arrives, LiftTrack sends a notification titled Workout synced from Garmin.

Open the session in LiftTrack

1. Tap the Workout synced from Garmin notification, or open LiftTrack. The workout review opens on its own for a session you have not reviewed yet.
2. Check the top of the screen. The session is named Strength and shows the time you started, the workout time and the calories your watch recorded.
3. Look at SETS: it reads 0, because the watch recorded no exercises. Under Your sets, the review offers Take photo, Choose from library, Describe workout and Search exercises.

Add the exercises you did

1. Under Your sets, tap Search exercises. The Exercises screen opens.
2. Tap Barbell Deadlift, then tap Bent-over Row with Barbell. The add button now reads Add 2 exercises.
3. Tap Add 2 exercises. Edit workout opens with one card for each exercise, each with one empty set.

Enter your sets and save

1. On the Barbell Deadlift card, tap the weight in set 1 and enter 225 lb (or 100 kg). Tap the reps and enter 5.
2. Tap Add set twice. Each new set copies the previous set, so the card shows 3 sets of 5 at 225 lb.
3. On the Bent-over Row with Barbell card, enter 135 lb (or 60 kg) and 8 reps in set 1, then tap Add set twice.
4. Tap Save. Edit workout closes and you are back on the review.

1. 1 Enter each set

   Weight and reps in set 1, then Add set.

   
2. 2 Check the review

   The review now lists every set.

   

The review now shows 6 sets and a total volume of 6,615 lb. Tap Save review to finish. The session is now in History on the Progress tab, with every set you entered.

If you close the review before adding your sets, the session’s card on the Home tab reads Review workout. Tap it to reopen the review.

Take it to the gym

• Send a workout to your Garmin: build the session you repeat as a LiftTrack workout, and your watch comes back with every set already filled in. See how to send a workout to your watch.
• Track it on your phone: open a workout on the Workouts tab and tap Start to check off each set as you lift.

Other ways to fill in the details

• From a photo: on the review, tap Take photo or Choose from library and take a picture of your notes or the gym whiteboard. LiftTrack fills in the exercises and sets, the same way it does when you create a workout from a photo or description. This needs Premium.
• From a description: tap Describe workout and write the session in your own words, such as “deadlift 3x5 at 225, rows 3x8 at 135”. This needs Premium.
• Later, from History: to fix a set or add an exercise after the review, open the session, tap the more icon and tap Edit workout. See how to edit a completed workout.

To see how LiftTrack handles sessions that come from a LiftTrack workout instead, see how Garmin sync works.