Does Strong work with Garmin?

No, Strong has no Garmin watch app. Its own site lists apps for iPhone, Apple Watch and Android.

What does work is a lifting app with its own Garmin watch app. BulkForged, ours, looks like this:

What does Strong say about watches and integrations?

Strong's own pages name one watch, the Apple Watch, and list no Garmin integration.

• Its help centre says: "We offer apps for iPhone (including Apple Watch) and Android."
• Its App Store listing describes a "Fully-featured Apple Watch app to log workouts with or without your iPhone".
• Its help centre has a section called "Apple Health and Other Integrations".
• That section covers Apple Health, Google Fit and Health Connect, nutrition, and MyFitnessPal. Garmin is not on the list.

So this is not a fault on your watch, and no setting fixes it.

What still works with Strong and a Garmin?

You can log in Strong on your phone while the watch records a Strength activity for heart rate.

• The two records stay separate. Your sets live in Strong and your heart rate lives in Garmin Connect.
• On iPhone, Strong shares your workouts with Apple Health, its help centre says.
• On Android, its help centre has an article on Health Connect.
• Neither one puts your sets on the watch.

What logs sets on a Garmin today?

Six options put your sets on the wrist.

• Garmin's built-in Strength activity. No app needed. It counts reps from wrist movement and lets you enter the weight after each set.
• Gravl. iPhone and Android, with a Connect IQ watch app that mirrors the workout on the phone.
• BulkForged. Android, with a Connect IQ watch app that runs the workout on the watch itself.
• Kilo. Android, with a Connect IQ watch app that also posts the workout to your Garmin profile.
• Rack. iPhone only, with a Connect IQ watch app that saves the workout as a native Garmin activity.
• Strength Tracker (LiftSync). No phone app. You build your workouts at liftsync.fit and run them from the watch.

Details for each are in Best strength training apps for Garmin watches.

How does BulkForged handle it?

BulkForged is our app. Its Garmin watch app is free from the Connect IQ store.

• The watch shows the exercise, the target weight and the target reps for each set.
• Logging a set takes three presses: confirm the weight, confirm the reps, done.
• The rest timer starts on its own and vibrates when rest is over.
• The whole workout runs offline on the watch. It uploads when the watch has a connection.

• Your phone can stay in the locker. See Phone in the locker.
• The watch or the phone can start, log or finish a workout. They sync every 5 seconds during a workout.
• With Coaching, the app sets your next targets after the session and records why each one moved.

See it on video: a whole exercise logged on a fēnix, phone in the bag.

Does Strong tell you when to add weight?

None of Strong's pages we read says it sets your next weight.

• Its App Store listing names a "Warm Up Calculator" and a "Plate Calculator".
• Its help centre describes a Focus Metric. Strong "will compare it to the last time you performed that exercise."

With Coaching, BulkForged sets your next targets when you finish a workout.

• There is nothing to accept.
• It uses double progression. Add reps until every working set reaches the top of the rep range.
• Then the weight goes up, rounded to a real machine or plate step.
• One short set holds the target.
• Every change is written to a log, Overload History. It names the session and the sets it came from.
• Any target can be edited, and the app carries on from your number.

More: When should you add weight?

Can I bring my Strong history?

Yes, export your history from Strong and import the file into BulkForged.

• Strong's help centre shows where the export is. On iPhone, open Settings and tap Export Strong Data.
• On Android, open Settings and tap Export Data.
• Your workouts, routines, schedule and starting weights come across.
• The full walk-through: Switching from Hevy or Strong.

What are BulkForged's limits?

BulkForged is Android only today, and its watch app runs on 60+ Garmin watches.

• Android only today. iPhone is coming soon, with a waitlist.
• 60+ Garmin watches: most of the fēnix 6, and the fēnix 7, 8 and 9; epix; Enduro; MARQ; tactix; quatix; D2 Mach 1 Pro; Forerunner 165, 170, 255, 265, 570, 955, 965 and 970; Descent; and the AMOLED Instincts. No Venu or vivoactive. See every supported model.
• A session is saved in BulkForged, with every set and weight. It is not a Garmin Connect activity, so it records no heart rate. See what's saved where.

Where do this page's facts come from?

Every statement about Strong comes from Strong's own website, help centre or App Store listing, read on 5 October 2026.

• BulkForged is our app, so weigh this page accordingly.
• We read strong.app, help.strongapp.io and Strong's App Store listing.

Related: Importing your workouts from another app, Overload history, Adding your watch.