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Garmin Workout Sync

Garmin Workout Sync

Send your planned sessions straight to your Garmin watch. Connect Garmin once, and GoAnd.Run pushes the current and next week's workouts, with warm-ups, intervals, recoveries, cool-downs, and pace targets, to your Garmin Connect calendar. No more reading the session off your phone mid-run; the steps are on your wrist, counting down for you.

How it works
GoAnd.Run sends workouts directly to Garmin Connect through Garmin's own training service. They reach your watch the next time it syncs with Garmin Connect. There's nothing to set up on Garmin's side beyond connecting your account.

Connecting Garmin

Workout push uses the same Garmin Connect link that imports your runs. If you've already connected Garmin with the workout import permission, you're ready to go.

  1. Open your Profile

    Go to your Profile, find the Garmin Connect section, and click Connect with Garmin.

  2. Grant workout import

    Garmin asks which permissions to share. Leave the workout import permission switched on. Without it, Garmin refuses the workouts GoAnd.Run sends.

  3. Back in GoAnd.Run

    You're returned to your Profile with Garmin shown as connected. The Push to Garmin panel now appears on your training plan.

Newer Garmin devices only
Structured workouts work on recent models such as the Forerunner 255, 265, 955 and 965, the Fenix 6, 7 and 8, and the Edge 530, 830 and 1040. Older watches like the Forerunner 235 or Vivoactive 3 don't support structured workouts and will only show a basic run.

Pushing Workouts

Open your training plan and use the Push to Garmin button. It sends the current week and next week to your Garmin Connect calendar, and the workouts reach your watch at its next sync.

Each week shows its status

You'll see "Syncing..." while it works, then "Synced" with a timestamp once each week is done. If something goes wrong, the week shows "Failed" with a short reason.

Re-pushing is safe

Unchanged sessions are left exactly as they are. Edited sessions are updated in place (and recreated if you deleted them in Garmin Connect), a session that moved to another day is rescheduled, and a session that became a rest day is removed from your Garmin calendar.

Rest and strength days aren't sent

Only runs are pushed as structured workouts. Rest days and gym sessions stay in the app, where they belong.

Automatic Updates

Once you've pushed a plan, you don't need to keep pressing the button. GoAnd.Run re-sends affected weeks on its own so your watch stays in step with the plan.

When your plan adapts

After an adaptation, the adapted upcoming weeks are pushed again, as long as the plan has been pushed at least once.

When you accept an adjustment

Accepting a session adjustment re-sends that week, if it had already been synced.

Every Monday morning

For active plans you've pushed before, the current and next week are sent so the new week is always on your watch.

On Your Watch

Each run arrives as a structured workout: warm-up, the main set with its reps and recoveries, and a cool-down. Your watch counts down each step and beeps when it's time to change.

Workout steps

Warm-up, cool-down, steady, rep and recovery segments each become a step, measured by distance in metres or by time in seconds, just as the session is written.

Repeat blocks

Repeated rep and recovery pairs are folded into a single repeat block, so "6 x 800 m" shows as one block your watch loops through six times.

Workout name

Each workout is named after the session type and distance, for example "Intervals 9 km". The full session text is attached as the description.

Open steps

Steps with no pace in the plan, such as an easy jog recovery, are sent as open steps with no target.

Pace targets

Pace targets are sent as absolute pace bands taken from your plan's zones, so the watch shows the same paces you see in the app. A zone with only one edge, such as "< 3:22/km", gets a 20 s/km band. No zone set-up is needed in Garmin Connect for the targets to show.

Set your threshold first for the best result. Save your Threshold Pace in your Zones settings before pushing, so your watch shows the right pace target on every interval. If you update your threshold later, push the plan again to refresh the targets.

Troubleshooting

It says "Synced" but nothing is on my watch

"Synced" means the workout is on your Garmin Connect calendar. Sync your watch with Garmin Connect, then check the watch's workout or calendar menu. If it still isn't there, check that your watch is a model that supports structured workouts.

A week fails with a missing workout import permission

Garmin only accepts workouts when you've granted the workout import permission. Disconnect Garmin from your Profile, connect again, and leave workout import switched on when Garmin asks. Then push the plan again.

The steps are there but there are no pace targets

Set your Threshold Pace in your Zones settings, then push the plan again.

A week shows "Failed"

The Push to Garmin panel shows the sync status of each week, and a failed week includes a short reason. Fix what it describes and push again. If it keeps failing, get in touch from the support page.

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