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Garmin data

Sleep, recovery and load from your Garmin in your plan.

If you wear a Garmin watch, Forma can bring its sleep, recovery and training numbers into your plan. Your watch already measures what happens overnight, so Forma reads that instead of asking you to type anything. The training coach weighs it when it plans.

Garmin data is part of Forma Power. Core works without a watch: your targets, session plans, food logging and the recovery read from your logged sets all run as normal.

When to use it

  • You already wear a Garmin, and would rather Forma read it than enter sleep or rest days by hand.
  • You want the Overnight card on Today to show your sleep, heart-rate variability (HRV, the variation between your heartbeats) and resting heart rate.
  • You want the readiness and training load from your watch to count toward what the training coach plans next.
  • You hold Forma Power. Without it the Garmin screen says "Garmin watch data is part of Power." and offers See Power plans.

Step by step

  1. Open Settings, then Devices, and tap Garmin.
  2. If the card at the top already reads Connected, you are done. Otherwise tap Connect Garmin.
  3. A sign-in sheet opens over Forma. Sign in on Garmin's own page inside it.
  4. When the sheet closes, the Garmin screen says Garmin connected. If you stop halfway, it says Connecting was cancelled. Nothing was changed.
  5. Wait for your watch to sync with Garmin. The screen then shows Newest data with the date of the latest reading. Before any data arrives it says No data has arrived yet. It appears after your watch syncs.
  6. Open Today. The Overnight card shows your sleep, HRV and resting heart rate. The Recovery ring fills with the readiness figure from the watch when it sends one, or with the body battery figure when it does not.
  7. To stop, tap Disconnect Garmin on the Garmin screen and confirm in the dialog. Forma stops receiving data from your watch, and you can connect again whenever you like.

What your watch adds

Garmin delivers your data to Forma's own server under Garmin's Open Wearables program. Forma keeps a copy on the phone, so the numbers are there when you open the app. What it brings:

  • Last night's sleep: the time asleep and the sleep score, on the Overnight card.
  • HRV and resting heart rate, compared with your own recent nights rather than a general norm.
  • Today's stress, breathing and steps on the same card, shown while the newest night on the phone is older than last night.
  • A sleep stage breakdown (Deep, Light, REM, Awake) on the Vitals screen in Progress.
  • Training readiness, training load and your cardio sessions. The training coach reads them when it picks the next session and when it suggests rest.

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