How to add strength workout as completed activity in Garmin Connect?

It looks like this is not possible. What could I do to make it happen?

Many thanks!

I've wondered the same thing for a few months now. I thought the whole purpose of designing a Workout was to use it as a template to complete an Activity. I'll try posting this on SlowTwitch. Allan.

Actually, the purpose of designing a (repeatable!) custom workout, creating it in Garmin Connect, and then sending it to a Garmin wearable device is so that the device can then (primarily) instruct the user to perform the workout's preprogrammed steps, and (secondarily) show a set of special data fields that could change with each step to be meaningful to the current workout step. The user gets the benefit of being able to complete a timed activity with the guidance (and presumably get the desired physical outcome from doing so), and is not actually obliged to follow any of the steps or instructions in actual practice; what the user actually does is recorded and subsequently uploaded, and there is no requirement that an activity record that follows the template is ‘converted’ or otherwise marked with some reference to the custom workout, for it to deliver either the benefits or the inidividual activity analysis (as opposed to a macro-level analysis of all activities that follows the template).

OK, so if custom workout was designed for different purpose than recording strength activity, is there any other way to log actual strength activity with all exercises with the same level of detail that can be achieved in creation of custom workout?

You don't say which device you are using, but I know that on the Fenix 5, and presumably other of Garmin's newer devices, when you start a strength activity you can choose either a custom workout you've sent to the device or "Free". If you choose free you press the lap key at the start and end of each set and it will count reps. This doesn't always count right but after you press Lap at the end of the set it lets you edit the reps and also record the weight. Once you sync to Connect it will show you its best guess for what each exercise was along with the reps and weight for each set and you can edit these if it picked the wrong exercise.

I have Fenix 3 HR, which I think does not have same functionality as Fenix 5.

But it's relaly disappointing that I cannot add weight training manually. Alas.

@sashokv36: Sure you can manually add activities of type Strength Training in Garmin Connect. However, just as you cannot enter specifics for individual laps/splits within a manually added Street Running activity record, equally you cannot enter specifics for individual exercises within a manually added Strength Training activity record; that is hardly surprising.

If you want a device that is capable of automatically recording the specifics, as has been pointed out the technology has evolved and now there are a number of models on the market you can buy (at your expense). Looking for enhancements in the free-to-use Garmin Connect service, such that it can serve as an online diary of manually added entries, is not the answer.

Maybe it's different with the Fenix 3, but I have Workouts that I follow using GeniusWrist's IQ app on my 5S and then once it syncs with GCM (in my case) I edit it the resulting record to include my activity with the appropriate exercises (assuming Garmin has them in it's list of exercises) and add in the appropriate weights and reps. This capability is part of any activity labeled as "Strength". I hope this is useful.

@smw856: Thanks, this is really useful. This app is compatible with my device, so I'll give it ashot.