BulkForged on your Garmin watch

Does it run on my watch?

It runs on 60+ Garmin watches, including the fēnix, epix, Enduro, MARQ, tactix, quatix, Forerunner, Descent and AMOLED Instinct lines. Not Venu or vivoactive.

• BulkForged on the fēnix 9Versions, screens and setup
• BulkForged on the fēnix 8Versions, screens and setup
• BulkForged on the epix ProVersions, screens and setup
• BulkForged on the Forerunner 970Versions, screens and setup
• BulkForged on the Forerunner 965Versions, screens and setup
• BulkForged on the Instinct 3 AMOLEDVersions, screens and setup
• Every supported watch60+ in all, by family, and the ones that are not

How it works

1. Pair onceGenerate a code in the phone app and enter it on the watch. Pairing needs a BulkForged account.
2. Start a routinePick today's routine on the watch. Your targets are already on it.
3. Log every setSee the target, confirm the weight and the reps, and the rest timer starts.

• 0:37Hevy doesn't work with Garmin. Here's what does.
• 1:01Log gym sets on a Garmin fēnix without touching your phone
• 0:39Garmin workout sync to your phone: started on the watch, live on the phone
• 0:33Machine taken? Skip ahead to a free exercise in your Garmin gym workout
• 0:29A rest timer between gym sets, right on your Garmin

Guides for Garmin owners

• Best strength training apps for Garmin watchesEight ways to log a gym workout on a Garmin watch, including BulkForged, the Android app that logs sets on a Garmin fenix and raises your next weight.
• Does Hevy work with Garmin?Hevy has no Garmin watch app. BulkForged does: the Android app that logs sets on a Garmin fenix and raises your next weight.
• How to log a gym workout on a Garmin watchTwo ways to log sets on a Garmin fenix: the built-in Strength activity, or BulkForged, the Android app that sets your next weight.
• Why your Garmin miscounts repsGarmin counts reps from the arm the watch is on, so leg lifts get missed. Why the fēnix 9 counts the same way, and how to get a better count.
• One gym workout on a Garmin watch, press by pressOne real gym session on a Garmin watch, screen by screen: pick a routine, confirm weight and reps, rest, a busy machine, finish, and the next targets.
• BulkForged and Garmin Connect: what's saved whereWhere a BulkForged workout is saved, what reaches Garmin Connect, what Health Connect gets, and what backs up to your account.
• How the watch and phone stay in sync during a workoutYour Garmin watch and phone sync every 5 seconds during a workout. What happens if the phone is away, closed, or signal drops.
• Phone in the locker, workout on your GarminYes, a Garmin can run your whole gym workout with the phone in the locker: what the watch does alone, its rest timer, and what still needs the phone.
• Machine taken? Skip to another exerciseMachine taken mid-workout? What Garmin's own strength workouts let you skip, and how BulkForged's Jump to exercise keeps your place on the watch.
• How to track progressive overload on a GarminGarmin doesn't carry weights forward between Strength sessions. The workarounds, Garmin Coach, and how BulkForged sets your next target.
• Why Garmin Strength Coach skips some weightsGarmin's Strength Coach suggests weights for the main lifts only. What it gives, what it doesn't, and how to set a weight for every lift.
• Fix Garmin Strength weights, names and setsGarmin Strength activity not saving weights, naming the wrong exercise, or won't edit sets? Fixes from Garmin's manuals and forums, step by step.
• Which Garmin watch is best for lifting?Buttons, touch, screen, battery and size compared for fēnix 8 and 9, epix Pro, Forerunner, Instinct 3 AMOLED, Venu 4 and vívoactive 6.

Help with the watch app

• Using your Garmin watch
• Adding your watch
• Starting a workout from your watch
• The set overview screen on your watch
• The weight screen on your watch
• The reps screen on your watch
• The reps-in-reserve screen on your watch
• The rest timer on your watch
• Running cardio from your watch
• The workout menu on your watch
• The workout summary on your watch
• My Garmin watch stopped syncing