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Strength Training Integration with Hevy App & Improved Workout Tracking Experience

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Hi all,

I'm currently using an iPhone 15 Pro Max along with a Garmin Epix Pro Gen 2, and while I'm absolutely impressed with how well Garmin handles outdoor tracking (like running and cycling), I’ve found the strength training experience to be lacking—especially when it comes to workout creation, usability, and social engagement.

After trying the Hevy app, I was blown away. It’s incredibly intuitive for building and tracking strength workouts directly from the phone. It has a slick, modern interface and even includes social features like following friends, viewing their workouts, and staying motivated. Starting a session is as simple as one tap.

Comparatively, Garmin Connect feels much less intuitive, both in terms of creating custom strength workouts and engaging with the community. The process is more time-consuming, and there’s not much in the way of gym-specific feedback or community-driven features.

What I’d love to see from Garmin:

- A way to track strength workouts using a third-party app like Hevy on the phone, while simultaneously allowing my Garmin watch to record HR, movement, and intensity data.
- After the session, all data (including Garmin's physiological metrics) could sync into Garmin Connect, Hevy, and Strava as a single activity.
- An improved and more engaging strength training experience in Garmin Connect, ideally with social components and simpler custom workout creation.

Question to Garmin:
Has the team ever considered partnering with or acquiring Hevy—or at least opening an API path for deeper integration?

This kind of synergy could offer the best of both worlds: Garmin’s elite sensors and health metrics combined with Hevy’s ease of use and focus on strength training.

Also, this isn’t just a personal opinion—this topic has been brought up frequently on Reddit and other fitness communities, often with frustration over Garmin’s current strength features and lack of third-party support.

I truly hope Garmin can take this feedback seriously, and if possible, I’d appreciate a detailed response—not a canned reply. I'd also be grateful if you could point me to someone within Garmin (perhaps a product manager or dev contact) where more detailed feedback could be sent.

Thanks for reading and for all the amazing tech you’ve built. Can’t wait to see what’s next—especially looking forward to the Fenix 8!

Best regards,
Radenko

  • 0 in reply to 7606241

    Either would be fine. Currently Hevy works really well. I've used a bunch of gym workout apps into the past and they've all been pretty rubbish. Garmin's is probably the worst! (that I've used). Hevy is very simple but it just does the things that you want it to do.

    So either Garmin should make their workout tracking do exactly what Hevy does (but allow you to click through the workout on your watch). Or they should expose the API for Hevy to do a proper integration with the watch.

    The second would probably be less development time as the app already has the required features, it's just a matter of exposing them on the watch (although that is probably very involved). Also Hevy already want to do the integration. They've discussed it on their own forum. I believe it's Garmin who are unable to give Hevy the level of access that they would need to do it

  • 0 in reply to 7606241

    It's an interesting question. For me, I'd rather Garmin do what it was built to do even better and allow HEVY and other apps built to specically track strength and gym sessions do what they do as well as possible, and then allow us to benefit from it all.

  • 0

    For me it would be a massive gain already if the community could create custom exercises, gym machines, with images. Most annoying thing is I don't find the machines of my gym in the list. No preview images makes it a pain to figure out if the exercise is the correct one.

    Progress tracking is also hard. You get record notifications for exercises with benchmarks but for nothing else. Pretty limited and I don't see the reason.

    For convenience, I'd like to have the option to quickly create a new exercise, take a picture of the machine and add it to my gym plan.

    And I also don't understand why they don't allow sharing of training plans with the community. They could even build a product around it with premium plans you have to pay for, giving professional trainers the option to earn extra money. 

    And that's only the app/web side, no need to even touch the watch firmware for those changes.

  • 0

    Yes please Garmin Lets make this possible. 

  • 0
    A Hevy <-> Garmin Connect integration would be a game-changer for anyone who takes strength training seriously

    Garmin's hardware is great. I trust the HRV data, the body battery scores, all of it. But logging strength training on Garmin is genuinely bad. The experience just isn't there yet. I tried for a couple weeks and gave up.

    Hevy fixes that side of things. What Hevy doesn't have is the recovery context. I want to look at my HRV trend before deciding whether to push volume on a given day. Right now that means switching between two apps and doing the math myself.

    Strava and Runna already connect to Garmin for running. The capability is there. I don't know what's blocking the same thing for lifting
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    Hevy's UI for workouts is so much better than the endless list that Garmin has which still lacks common machines let alone the images. For me as a beginner weight-lifter it's great to see an image and short clip of the movement in the Hevy app. Garmin really should open up the API for them.