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Import · Running and cycling · Checked 2026-10-22

Move your Garmin Connect history into TrainRec

Turn on Garmin Connect's Apple Health sharing and your workouts, weight, body fat and sleep show up in TrainRec on their own. For older history, export your activity list as a CSV file from Garmin's website and hand it to your assistant.

How it gets in

Best results: your assistant. A connected assistant reads any export whole, fixes dates and units as it goes, and can bring in food and measurements, not just workouts. Coach, the chat built into TrainRec, is best for telling it what you did and for small pasted pieces. The other routes are there when you'd rather not involve either.

  • Through your assistantConnect or CoachBest results

    Export the file from Garmin Connect, attach it in your connected assistant's chat (Claude today) and say "Import this into TrainRec". It reads the whole file, sorts out odd dates, units and exercise names, and moves everything in with TrainRec's import tools, as one batch you can undo in one tap. With Coach, the chat built into TrainRec, describe what you did ("log my last two weeks: bench 3x5 at 185 on Monday...") or paste a small piece of the export, up to about a couple of weeks at a time. If something looks off afterward, just say so and it fixes it.

  • On its own, through Apple HealthEvery plan, on iPhone

    Garmin Connect writes workouts (without GPS tracks), weight, body fat and sleep to Apple Health. In Garmin Connect, open More, then Settings, then Connect Apps, then Apple Health. Keep Garmin Connect open for a moment so it can send. Turn on Apple Health sync in TrainRec (Profile, then Sync with Apple Health) and allow the kinds of data you want. Anything Garmin Connect has written to Apple Health shows up in TrainRec by itself: workouts as sessions with time, distance, calories and heart rate, plus weigh-ins, body fat, blood pressure, resting heart rate, HRV and sleep. Set-by-set lifting detail and food don't travel through Health, so use your assistant for those.

Export from Garmin Connect

A CSV of your activities from the Activities page, and CSVs of your weight and blood pressure from Health Stats.

  1. Export your activities. On connect.garmin.com, open Activities, then All Activities, and choose Export CSV at the top right.
  2. Export your weight and blood pressure. Open Health Stats, then Weight or Blood Pressure, pick a date range and choose Export.
  3. Give them to your assistant. Attach the files in your assistant's chat and say "Import this into TrainRec".
  4. Check it in TrainRec. Your history shows up on the calendar and in your records. Something look off? Ask your assistant to fix it. You can also undo the whole batch from Changes.

Good to know

  • Garmin only sends data to Apple Health while the Garmin Connect app is open in front. If something is missing, open it for a minute.
  • When you turn on sharing, Apple Health pulls in about two weeks of past data. Use the export for anything older.

Sources

  1. Garmin support: Apple Health
  2. Garmin support: Exporting data from Garmin Connect

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