BulkForged and Garmin Connect: what's saved where
A BulkForged workout is saved in BulkForged. It never becomes a Garmin Connect activity, lifting or cardio, today.
Where are lifting sets saved?
- A lifting session is saved in BulkForged, not as a Garmin Connect activity.
- It records no heart rate. The watch only reads heart rate during a cardio set.
What about outdoor cardio sets?
- The watch tracks heart rate, distance and calories live while a cardio set runs.
- That tracking never becomes a Garmin Connect activity. It is dropped once the set ends.
- Distance, calories and heart rate for that set are saved in your BulkForged session instead.
What about treadmill cardio sets?
- The watch reads your heart rate during the set. It is saved in your BulkForged session.
- With no GPS indoors, the watch records no distance or calories.
- Type the treadmill's distance in on your phone, during the workout or afterwards.
- On Android, calories come from Health Connect when it has a figure for that time.
- Otherwise BulkForged estimates them from your bodyweight and how long you went.
- You can type the treadmill's calorie figure in instead.
Does it work with Health Connect on Android?
- Connect Health Connect in Settings and your finished BulkForged workouts are sent there.
- Each one lands as an exercise session, with your sets and weights written out in its notes.
- A workout imported from Hevy or Strong is never sent to Health Connect. It is already in the app you imported it from.
- Each bodyweight you log in BulkForged is sent there too.
- BulkForged reads back in a bodyweight entry, and active calories for cardio estimates.
- Sending workouts, sending bodyweight, reading bodyweight and reading active calories are all on by default. Each has its own switch in Settings, under Connected services.
- Opening Connected services also reads your last 90 days of weigh-ins and workouts in Health Connect. It shows you how many are there.
- That count has no switch of its own. Disconnect Health Connect to stop it.
What does my BulkForged account keep?
- History backs up to your BulkForged account.
- Sign in on a new phone and your workouts, routines and schedule come with you.
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