Two-way Garmin Connect integration

Keep your Garmin.
Add an AI coach that connects both ways.

Link Garmin Connect once so every run, ride, swim and gym session you record on your watch flows into Pelaris automatically, and send the next two weeks of your planned Pelaris workouts straight out to your Garmin watch calendar. Works on every Pelaris plan, including the free Beach tier.

Connect your Garmin for free How the Garmin integration works

Garmin Connect, connected both ways

Your Garmin watch is built to guide you through intervals and record every split. Pelaris is built to plan your block and adapt your week when life or recovery shifts. Connecting Garmin Connect links the two automatically.

Completed sessions arrive after every watch sync

As soon as your watch syncs with the Garmin Connect app, your completed run, ride, swim, strength or cardio session flows into Pelaris. When it matches a planned session on your schedule, Pelaris marks that session done with your real time, distance, heart rate, pace, elevation, laps and watch model (such as Garmin Forerunner 965).

Send planned workouts straight to your watch

Turn on Send planned workouts to my watch when you connect, flip the switch any time in Profile, Connected Apps, or tap Send to watch on any planned session card in Today, Train or Session Overview. Pelaris sends the next two weeks of your planned run, ride, pool swim, strength, cardio, yoga and pilates workouts to your Garmin Connect calendar.

Your watch updates when your plan adapts

When your coach adjusts Thursday’s threshold run after a heavy Tuesday or a poor night of sleep, Pelaris updates the structured workout on Garmin Connect automatically. Open any planned session in Pelaris to see its watch status: On Garmin Connect. Sync your watch to load it.

Zero duplicates with Strava, Polar or FIT imports

Already sync your Garmin with Strava? Pelaris runs every incoming workout through one merge gate. When the same morning run arrives from Garmin Connect and from Strava or a FIT file, they join into a single session on your timeline with both sources credited under the title, never counted twice.

Connect in under a minute

  1. Step 1

    Open Connect & Sync

    Click Connect & Sync in the bottom-left navigation bar in Pelaris (or open Profile, then Connected Apps) and choose Connect on the Garmin card.

  2. Step 2

    Choose whether to send watch workouts

    Tick Send planned workouts to my watch if you want your upcoming Pelaris sessions on your Garmin calendar, or leave it off for activity import only. You can change this switch any time.

  3. Step 3

    Approve on Garmin Connect

    Sign in on Garmin Connect and approve the link. Every new workout you record from that moment arrives in Pelaris automatically after your watch syncs.

Want every detail on activity matching, watch workout sports and disconnecting? Read the full Garmin Connect setup guide .

What your coach does with your Garmin training

Marks today’s planned session done automatically

Finish your scheduled run, ride, swim or lift on your Garmin watch and sync with Garmin Connect. Pelaris matches it to your planned workout and fills in your real splits, laps, heart rate and device name.

Loads structured intervals onto your wrist

Warm-ups, target pace or heart-rate zones, work intervals, recoveries and strength sets land on your Garmin watch calendar so you can execute the session without checking your phone.

Adapts next week from what you actually did

If an unplanned long ride or a hard race replaces your scheduled session, Pelaris logs it from Garmin Connect and your coach adjusts your upcoming load around the real work.

Combines live sync with years of watch history

Pair the live Garmin Connect integration with a one-time FIT history import and your coach sees both today’s watch sync and years of prior training blocks on one timeline.

Connected Apps in Pelaris showing device integrations alongside workout history
Connect & Sync in Pelaris: link Garmin Connect once for automatic activity sync and structured watch workouts, and bring older history across whenever you like.

Bringing years of older Garmin history across

Garmin Connect syncs every new workout from the moment you link your account. If you also want to bring in years of Garmin training from before you connected, you can drop your historical FIT files into Pelaris in one go.

Everything, from your Garmin Account

  1. Sign in to your Garmin Account on the web and open Data Management, then Export Your Data.
  2. Choose Request Data Export. Garmin emails you a download link when it is ready, which can take a few days.
  3. Open the export and find the DI-Connect-Uploaded-Files folder inside DI_CONNECT. It holds your original activity files.
  4. Drop the files into Pelaris under Profile, Data, Bring your history across.

One activity, from Garmin Connect

  1. Open the activity in Garmin Connect on the web.
  2. Choose the gear icon, then Export File. Garmin downloads a small zip with the .fit file inside.
  3. Open the zip and drop the .fit file into Pelaris under Profile, Data, Bring your history across.

Every step, with what comes across and what does not: import FIT files into Pelaris. Stuck on a file? Import FIT files from your watch lists every message you might see.

Your data stays yours

  • Pelaris imports workout summaries, splits, laps and your device model, never your GPS route or map.
  • FIT files are read in memory on our servers and then discarded.
  • Your training data is never sold or used to train AI models.
  • Connecting your watch, importing history, and exporting your data back out are all free.

More on the privacy page.

Train on more than one device?

COROS Everything from Training Hub, or one activity at a time Suunto One workout at a time, from the Suunto app Polar Older sessions, from Polar Flow Wahoo One ride at a time, from the Wahoo app

Lifting in Hevy, Strong, Fitbod, JEFIT or FitNotes too? Bring that history across as well.

Garmin, COROS, Suunto, Polar and Wahoo are trademarks of their respective owners. Pelaris is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by them.

Pelaris for Garmin, answered

How does the Garmin Connect integration work with Pelaris? +
Link Garmin Connect once from Connect & Sync or Profile, Connected Apps. Completed runs, rides, swims and strength sessions sync into Pelaris automatically after your watch syncs with Garmin Connect, and you can optionally send the next two weeks of your planned Pelaris sessions straight to your Garmin watch calendar.
Can Pelaris send my planned workouts to my Garmin watch? +
Yes. Turn on Send planned workouts to my watch in the Garmin card under Profile, Connected Apps, or tap Send to watch on any planned session in Today, Train or Session Overview. Pelaris sends the next two weeks of planned run, ride, pool swim, strength, cardio, yoga and pilates sessions to your Garmin Connect calendar as structured workouts, and updates them automatically when your plan adapts.
Do I need a paid Pelaris plan to connect Garmin Connect? +
No. Connecting Garmin Connect for automatic activity sync and sending planned workouts to your watch works on every Pelaris plan, including the free Beach tier.
How do I bring in older Garmin sessions from before I connected? +
Request a full data export from your Garmin Account or export individual .fit files from Garmin Connect on the web, then drop them into Pelaris under Profile, Data, Bring your history across.
Does importing my history cost anything? +
No. Importing is free, logging and tracking in Pelaris are free forever, and exporting your data back out is free too. Bringing your history in never starts a trial or a paywall.
Will my Garmin sessions be counted twice if Strava already sent them? +
No. Pelaris checks every activity and file against what is already in your account. A workout a connected app already brought in joins the existing session as a second source instead of becoming a copy.
Does Pelaris keep my GPS route? +
No. Pelaris never keeps your raw FIT file or your GPS route. It keeps the workout summary: date, sport, time, distance, heart rate, power, laps and the make and model of the device.
Can I use this on both web and mobile? +
Yes. You can connect Garmin Connect and send planned workouts to your watch on the web app at coach.pelaris.io and in the iPhone and Android apps. Everything syncs to one Pelaris account.

Keep your Garmin, add a coach

Your Garmin records the work and guides your intervals on the wrist. Pelaris connects both ways, turning every watch sync into an adaptive training plan and sending your next workouts straight back to your watch.

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