LiftsmithRecovery
Health Connect and Apple Health for lifters: what to sync
· 2 min read
Your phone already knows a lot about your recovery: how you slept, your resting heart rate, your heart rate variability, your weight from a smart scale. Health Connect on Android and Apple Health on iPhone are where all of that collects, from watches, rings, scales and apps. A lifting app that reads it can plan around how you actually are today.
Plan around how you slept. Free to start, no account needed.
Connect your health appWhat's worth reading
- Sleep: a short night is the most common reason a heavy day feels awful.
- HRV and resting heart rate: compared with your own normal, they hint at how recovered you are. See HRV and training readiness.
- Weight and body fat: from a smart scale, so weigh-ins happen without typing.
- Steps: a big day on your feet affects how fresh your legs are.
What's worth writing back
Your workouts should show up in your health app as real strength workouts, with their time, calories and heart rate, so your daily activity totals are right and other apps can see you trained. They should also be written once: a phone and a watch both saving the same workout counts it twice.
Where your devices come in
Most watches, rings and scales already write to the health store on your phone, including Garmin, Fitbit, Oura and Samsung Health. That means one connection in your lifting app covers all of them. On Samsung phones, switch on Health Connect sharing in Samsung Health's settings.
How Liftsmith uses it
- Settings › Connected apps shows what's connected, when it last synced and exactly which readings are allowed, with Sync now and a way to change permissions.
- With Pro, sleep, HRV and resting heart rate feed today's call (push, as planned or an easy day), and the plan shows which readings it came from.
- Weigh-ins and body fat arrive on their own, one per day, so a re-import never duplicates them.
- Finished workouts are saved as strength training workouts with their sets in the notes, along with calories and heart rate.
Tip: Your health data stays yours. It's stored on your phone, kept out of phone backups, and only syncs to your own account if you sign in.
Questions
- Does Liftsmith work without Health Connect or Apple Health?
- Yes. It plans from your logged workouts alone; health readings just make the readiness call sharper.
- Can I connect a Garmin or Oura?
- Yes, through Health Connect or Apple Health: let your Garmin or Oura app share to it, then connect Liftsmith to the same place.
Plan around how you slept
Liftsmith reads sleep, HRV, resting heart rate and weigh-ins from Health Connect or Apple Health, and saves every workout back.
- ✓ Free to start, no account needed
- ✓ Plans every set, rep and weight for you
- ✓ Works offline, on Android, iPhone and the web
- ✓ No ads, ever
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- Dynamic vs static stretching: which to do and whenRecoveryThe difference between dynamic and static stretching, which one belongs before lifting, which after, and whether static stretching makes you weaker.
- Rest day stretching: an 8-minute routine for liftersRecoveryWhat to do on a rest day: an easy 8-minute full-body stretching routine for lifters, plus why light movement helps you recover for the next session.