The best Garmin strength training apps
The best strength training app this week is Push-Up Hero by Strafe ($2.49, score 7.8/10). Push-up challenges on your watch: track your push-ups, see your progress in a log and compete with friends on a weekly, monthly and yearly leaderboard, either global or in your own private group.
Connect IQ apps for strength training and the gym: workout logs, rep and set counters, rest timers, bar speed (velocity based training) and HIIT.
Push-Up Hero
Push-up challenges on your watch: track your push-ups, see your progress in a log and compete with friends on a weekly, monthly and yearly leaderboard, either global or in your own private group.
FocusGym
A data field for weightlifting, bodybuilding and CrossFit that tells you when to start your next set based on your real-time heart rate recovery, like a digital strength coach on your wrist.
Gym sets counter
Shows the number of the current set during a strength activity, so you always know where you are in your workout.
Warm Up Power Pro
Prepare for your next training session with a guided warm-up on your Garmin AMOLED watch. 30 distinct exercises include dynamic ankle, hip, shoulder and chest mobility, leg swings, calf raises, squats, balance, floor mobility and movement rehearsal.
Iron Beat
An activity app for barbell-to-music group classes such as BODYPUMP: one press starts a continuous session recorded with heart rate and calories, no GPS needed. Large timer and live heart rate on screen.
F3b Strength Training+
2019 Connect IQ Developer of the Year. Many requests for a the Best All Purpose Strength Training App, which will saves many types including Cross Fit, 5x5 and BP workout. This is a pay application for 3 USD, and the free version is limited to 10 Minutes.
HIIT HR Recovery (Intra-Workout)
Measures your heart-rate recovery during the rest steps of a HIIT workout, with a recovery rate for each rest so you can compare recoveries at different intensities.
Rest Timer for Strength
The native Strength activity counts your reps. It does not tell you when to lift again. This adds the missing piece: a rest countdown that VIBRATES. Press LAP at the end of a set. The watch counts your rest down and buzzes twice when it is over.
Interval Timer: HIIT, EMOM & Race Mode
An interval timer for HIIT, EMOM and AMRAP that races your personal best and shows whether you are ahead or behind each round, scores rounds plus reps like the whiteboard and saves it to Garmin Connect. A race mode times 8 runs and stations separately.
MitoFlex
Transform your runs with adaptive HIIT training that boosts endurance, burns fat, and enhances recovery personalized to your heart rate! MitoFlex2 is a Garmin data field for adaptive HIIT training. It adjusts surge and recovery based on heart rate recovery for optimal efficiency and prevents...
MaGymus: Workout Tracker & Coach
The ultimate offline-first workout tracker & smart coach for serious strength athletes right on your wrist. MaGymus delivers surgical control over your heavy strength training to your Garmin smartwatch.
Voima
Log your gym workout from your wrist. Choose Weights or Cardio and start. The buttons work like Garmin's own strength activity: press LAP (BACK) to start a set and LAP again when it's done. The rest timer starts and buzzes when it's time for your next set.
Gym Rest
The lightest rest timer between sets. One press set done, the rest countdown starts. Presets 30 / 60 / 90 / 120 / 180 s plus your own custom time, remembered for each exercise. Vibration at 10 seconds left and when rest is over.
PulseDeck
Pulsedeck turns your gym's TV into a live heart-rate display for group fitness classes. Add the Pulsedeck data field to any activity and your heart rate appears on the big screen the moment class starts your live BPM, your current heart-rate zone, and calories, right alongside everyone else in the...
Braced
Your Braced strength workouts on your wrist. Braced for Garmin brings the templates from the Braced app on your phone to your watch. Pick one and the watch walks you through it: each set with its target from last time, warm-ups and drop sets, and a rest timer that buzzes when it is time to go again.
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