How to encode Strength Training into FIT?

Hi.

I'm working on a personal project to make entering strength training activities easier. As a first step, I manually created a strength training activity in Connect Web and added a few exercises.

I then exported the corresponding FIT file and dumped it using the SDK FIT to CSV Tool. When I look at the data, I don't see where the individual exercises are saved to the export FIT File. I deleted the activity from Connect Web and then imported it again. The four exercises I manually entered didn't seem to be imported. Did those exercises get saved to the FIT File on export?

Here is a link to the export FIT Activity and generated CSV Files: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AhGO38HxSou3zLwpuV3KI1j3rJmhGw?e=p8WgVw

Any guidance, examples, documentation would be appreciated.

Thanks

-marc

0 Sumo 6 months ago

One thing I've noticed about exporting fit files from Connect, is that it only exports the original file (as recorded by whatever device). None of the subsequent edited details are included.

0 Sumo 6 months ago

Just to add more detail, from my quick look into one of my activities, the individual exercise details are encoded into SetMsg class, within the Category field. The value stored is the ENUM integer value of the exercise.

0 MarcSimkin 6 months ago in reply to Sumo

Hi Sumo. Thank you. I guess I will need to figure out how to record a strength training exercise on a Garmin device, that supports it. I just don't have one at this time, besides the Edge.

Garmin Forums is it really that hard to provide detailed documentation on how different activities stored in a FIT File are structured?

0 Ben FIT 6 months ago in reply to MarcSimkin

How to encode and decode strength or reps & sets workouts is not something that is currently planned to be documented. We will continue to document how to encode and decode time & distance workouts. That documentation can be found here. https://developer.garmin.com/fit/cookbook/encoding-workout-files/

0 MarcSimkin 6 months ago in reply to Ben FIT

Ben FIT Thank you for the response. I'm not trying to build a better entry app for completed strength training activities. Not encode a workout. I have read the referenced documentation previously, that all makes sense, but I doesn't help me figure out how to encode a strength training activity file that was not generated by a Garmin device.

0 Sumo 6 months ago in reply to MarcSimkin

You have a template to follow in your manually created Activity.

All you need to do is insert SetMesgs detailing your sets and reps, at the relevant timestamps during your workout.

As to what value to input for what exercise, those details are documented in the SDK, and your IDE should help you select your required enum.