About a month ago I posted Reckoner here looking for the first group of lifters willing to test it.
A lot has changed since then.
Reckoner is now at the point where I am less interested in asking people to test an experiment and more comfortable simply saying this: if you strength train with a Garmin and want your watch to do more than record sets and reps, give it a try.
The idea behind Reckoner is pretty simple. You do your strength training from the watch, rate how hard each working set felt, and Reckoner uses that to work out what should happen next. Add weight, hold where you are, or back off when you need it.
Your next session then shows up on your Garmin without having to keep rebuilding workouts every time your weights or reps change. When you finish, the workout syncs into Garmin Connect as a proper strength activity and back into Reckoner so the progression continues.
Since my first post here, most of the work has been around making that experience feel less like an early app and more like something I actually want to use every time I train.
Started sessions are now handled properly, warmup progression has been cleaned up, assisted pullups now adjust in the right direction, editing weight, reps and time on the watch is much clearer, and we have continued expanding compatibility across Garmin devices.
There have also been a lot of smaller changes that are difficult to make sound exciting in release notes, but make a big difference when you are standing in the gym trying to get through a workout without fighting your watch.
The next bigger piece we are working on is saving and resuming a session, so getting interrupted halfway through a workout does not mean starting over.
The goal is still the same as when I started building this: make Garmin genuinely useful for progressive strength training, not just a place to store what you already did.
If you are looking for a Garmin strength training app, weightlifting app, or just a better way to manage progression from your watch, you can get started here:
Get the app: https://apps.garmin.com/apps/b36a2543-11b8-460d-b9a9-53ddd25a00d8?tid=0
Feedback is still very welcome, especially from anyone who has tried to run a progressive lifting program using Garmin's built in strength training tools.
