Garmin cardio/strength workouts not uploading calories to strava

I have a Garmin Fenix 6 pro and when I complete a non GPS workout i.e cardio or strength only the duration of the workout gets uploaded to strava.

In addition, strava always considers this to be a run rather than any other form of exercise. Along with this my heart rate and calories are not sent to strava.

Is it possible to configure this with strava so all details of my workout are uploaded?

I have seen users with a garmin forerunner that are able to do this without any issues but it doesn't seem to work with my Garmin Fenix 6 pro. Two examples are shown.

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0 John Finnegan over 3 years ago

I have had a similar issue with a Fenix 6 and I am unable to fix it. Is this the expected behaviour?

0 Ɛpsilon over 3 years ago

If you, in Strava, manually edit the activity and change it's activity type back to Workout - do the calories re-appear?

0 Niall ORiordan over 3 years ago in reply to Ɛpsilon

No, I have tried that and it still doesn't work, unfortunately.

0 Niall ORiordan over 3 years ago

Also for reference, I can confirm that the workouts are being logged to garmin connect correctly. I have also tested using cardio instead of strength and I have had the same issue.

0 Ɛpsilon over 3 years ago in reply to Niall ORiordan

ON Garmin Connect Web, when you view an activity there is an option to export it to a FIT file (it's in the little cogwheel icon).

Try manual import to strava?

Or - another possible test - get yourself a free Runalyze account. Then import the FIT file to that - do calories show there?

+1 Niall ORiordan over 3 years ago in reply to Ɛpsilon

ah thank you that helped me figure out the issue as strava issued a warning when I was uploading that health-related data would not be recorded! The problem was to do with my data settings.

For anyone else interested, you need to edit your health-related data permissions. I did this on the strava website but it is also possible to edit within the app's settings.

0 Ɛpsilon over 3 years ago in reply to Niall ORiordan

Nice catch!