Is your Garmin smartwatch not tracking your workouts the way you want it to? Do you want to know how you can add a custom workout to the Garmin watch?
Garmin is known for tracking activities accurately, however, it does not mean that its watches’ built-in sports modes can track your activities or exercises the way you want. But you can definitely make it track your exercises according to you by creating a custom workout. And if you too want to add a workout to your Garmin watch then you are reading the right article.
The process of adding a workout is the same on the most costly as well as the cheapest Garmin watches and it does not matter whether you own a Garmin Venu, Vivoactive, Forerunner, or Fenix. In this article, I am going to tell you this step-by-step process and I will also tell you how to access and use the custom workouts after creating them.
So, keep reading!
Note: The illustrative images in this article are of my Garmin Forerunner 245 Music.
Quick Navigation
- Which Workouts Can You Add To Garmin Watch?
- How To Add Custom Workout To Garmin Watch?
- How To Access And Use Custom Workouts On Garmin Watch?
- Can You Create A Custom Workout From Garmin Smartwatch?
Which Workouts Can You Add To Garmin Watch?
Before we move to add workouts to the Garmin watch, let’s first see what custom workouts you can add to your Garmin smartwatch. You can create custom workouts on Garmin smartwatches around the following exercises:
- Run
- Bike
- Pool swim
- Strength
- Cardio
- HIIT
- Yoga
- Pilates
- Custom
For example, if you run daily and want to add a warm-up round before starting up then you can do it. You will be able to set the goal as well as the duration of the warm-up set. Then you can add the actual run, again the goals for which can be set. And lastly, you can add a cool-down session as well.
When you will choose this custom workout on your watch then it will tell you to do a warm-up session according to the goal and duration you have pre-specified. Once you complete the warm-up session then you can switch to the main session and similarly, you can switch to the cool-down session after completing the run. You can also repeat any or all of the steps as many times as you like.
How To Add Custom Workout To Garmin Watch?
Let us now see how you can actually add custom workouts to Garmin watches.
Note: Custom workouts on the Garmin watch can only be created by the Garmin Connect app.
Step1: Open the Garmin Connect app on your smartphone.
Step 2: Tap on the hamburger icon on Android devices or three dots on iOS devices, present at the bottom right corner.
Step 3: Open Training.
Step 4: Go to Workouts.
Step 5: Tap on Create A Workout button.
Step 6: Select the exercise you want to create the custom workout around.
Step 7: Create the workout the way you want to. You can add, remove or repeat the steps you like. Tap on the steps to change their type, duration, or target.
Step 8: Tap on Save.
Step 9: Input the name of the workout and tap on Save.
Step 10: Tap on the workout name.
Step 11: Click on the phone icon available in the top right corner.
Step 12: Select the watch to which you want to send the workout.
So this is how you can add custom workouts to your Garmin watch. Once you have sent the workout to your watch, you will then be able to use it on your watch. Let us now look at how you can use the custom workouts on your Garmin watch.
How To Access And Use Custom Workouts On Garmin Watch?
Step 1: Press the Start button.
Step 2: Go to the workout around which you have created the custom workout. For eg., if you have created a custom workout around running then select Run.
Step 3: Press the Up button to go to the options.
Step 4: Go to Training.
Step 5: Open Workouts.
Step 6: Select the custom workout that you have created.
Step 7: Select Do Workout.
Once you select Do Workout, your watch will start tracking the workout as you have planned it.
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Can You Create A Custom Workout From Garmin Smartwatch?
No, you cannot create a custom workout from a Garmin smartwatch. To add a custom workout you will have to use the Garmin Connect app on your smartphone. Once you have created the custom workout you can then send it to your watch to use.
