Using your Garmin watch

BulkForged on your watch runs on the five buttons every supported Garmin has — fenix, epix, Enduro, MARQ and Forerunner alike — and the same button always means the same kind of thing, whichever screen you're on. Learn five buttons and you know the whole app.

The five buttons on a Garmin watch and what BulkForged uses each one for

The buttons

START (top right) — confirm and move on. It begins a set from the overview, moves from weight to reps, logs the set, and skips the rest timer.
BACK (bottom right) — one screen back. From the set overview it opens the workout menu instead, because there is nothing behind the overview to go back to.
UP (middle left) — raise the number on screen, or add 15 seconds of rest. Hold UP for MENU — there is no separate MENU key on these watches. From the set overview, MENU opens the list of exercises so you can jump to another one.
DOWN (bottom left) — lower the number, take 15 seconds off the rest timer, or skip to the next cardio segment.
LIGHT (top left) — the backlight. BulkForged never uses it.

Touch-screen models also take a swipe up or down as UP or DOWN. Swipe up always means "more" — heavier, more reps, more rest — so it feels the same as the button.

The screens, in the order you meet them

Start Workout — pick a routine, resume one already running on your phone, or pair the watch for the first time.
Set overview — what's coming: exercise, set number, target weight and reps. START begins the set.
Weight — starts on your target; UP/DOWN adjusts it, and quick presses ramp the step from 0.5 up to 5 so a big change is a few presses, not fifty. START moves on.
Reps — starts on your target rep count; UP/DOWN adjusts by exactly one. START logs the set (through the reps-in-reserve screen first, if that set asks for it).
Rest — a countdown to the next set. UP/DOWN adds or removes 15 seconds; START or BACK skips it.
Cardio — for a cardio exercise the overview leads to a running clock instead: START pauses and resumes it, DOWN skips a segment.
Summary — after the last set: what you did, and that it's saved. START or BACK closes the app.

Each screen has its own article with the full detail — they're listed below in the same order.

Good to know

Anything you log on the watch syncs back to the phone the same way a session logged on the phone syncs out to the watch, so it doesn't matter which device you finish a workout on. If the watch stops syncing, it's almost always Garmin Connect needing re-authorization rather than anything in BulkForged.