Hi all,
I'd like to show a Connect IQ app I've been building since the summer. It's the watch part of Eat Train Feel, a web app for workouts, food and how you feel, with a coach mode for personal trainers.
Why: I train at home with my fenix 8 on the wrist. Mostly AMRAPs and rounds, a SkiErg, a RowErg, an Echo Bike and a few weights. Getting that kind of workout onto the watch from another app was always the "did it sync?" game. Sometimes it worked. Sometimes it didn't. So I built the watch part myself.
How it works:
- link the watch once. The app shows a 6-digit code, you type it in Eat Train Feel under Settings › Garmin / Amazfit
- today's plan is simply on the watch. Your own workouts and whatever your coach assigned
- built something new and want it now? "Send to watch" on the workout page
On the watch:
- a heart rate band across the top in the colour of your Garmin HR zone
- a ring around the edge with the time left (AMRAP) or exercises left (rounds)
- elapsed and remaining time, the exercise, the reps, the weight, and NEXT
- LAP for the next exercise, two buzzes when a new round starts, one buzz a minute before the end
- DOWN for a second screen with calories, average heart rate and rounds
- long exercise names scroll, the font never shrinks
After the workout it's saved as a Cardio activity with a lap for every exercise, so Garmin Connect gets it like any other workout. Calories and heart rate come from Garmin. The result also goes back into the Eat Train Feel log by itself, and to your coach if the workout came from them.
Watches: 74 models, fenix 5 Plus and newer, Epix, Forerunner, Enduro, MARQ, Descent. Built on a fenix 8 AMOLED 51 mm.
One honest note: the watch app needs a free Eat Train Feel account. It's a soft launch, so sign-up is by request for now and you get an invite link by email, usually within a few hours.
Free, no ads, no trackers.
Connect IQ: apps.garmin.com/.../1eb795cd-7e34-4032-ba33-5ada3113ed90
Website: https://www.eattrainfeel.com
The long story with screenshots: medium.com/.../eat-train-feel-how-writing-workouts-for-a-friend-turned-into-my-own-app-29cffbf1a833
Feedback welcome, especially from anyone on an older or smaller watch.
