Feature Request: Allow a connection of TrainerRoad to HealthFit App or allow fit file data export to Apple Health

Have you seen this recent blog post? https://support.trainerroad.com/hc/en-us/articles/18794325276443-Connecting-TrainerRoad-with-Apple-Health

Isā€¦is it possible?

@IvyAudrain we good now? Can you stop creeping on my lack of cycling now? :smiley:

From my understanding that is only for pushing workouts to an Apple Watch. TR still does not send workout data to HealthKit. Currently TrainerRoad only reads from Health - no option to give Health the ability to read from TR in settings.

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Nate in another post (I canā€™t find it now) said they are working on pushing completed workouts to Apple Health. Which Iā€™m very much looking forward to than my current hack: TrainerRoad ā†’ Garmin Connect ā†’ Garmin Connect ā†’ Apple Health. But this is clunky, and to get the Garmin Connect ā†’ Apple Health sync to happen I have to open Garmin Connect on my iPhone, so very much less than ideal.

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MFW my request outlasts 50% of the podcast hosts

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Iā€™m looking forward to this feature as well. Going though Strava for Activity rings is not ideal.

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So there is still no direct sync of a TR workout to Apple Health, even though there is full integration of pushing workouts to one of Appleā€™s watches? I donā€™t care for Strava and highly dislike their data policies of wiping my own data (not even recorded by a Strava app) from services they sync upon disconnecting said sync.

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I hope that this is still on the TR roadmap with the changes to Stravas API.
I often use my Apple watch to record commuting activities when I donā€™t want to bring my Garmin head unit. But thatā€™s also how I record every other non-cycling activity like walking, yoga, strength training, etc. Those activities have historically gone from Apple fitness to Strava and then to TR for me. Seems like this wonā€™t work soon.

And then TR to Apple Fitness would be nice so that TR workouts can be reflected in my daily fitness rings in Apple fitness/Apple Watch. That also currently takes place via Strava for me.

All I can see that currently syncs is scheduled activities, but it would be great to get completed actives from Apple Watch to TrainerRoad and from TR to Apple.

Does anybody have any workarounds or pointers for already existing connections that Iā€™m missing?

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I hope so too, or else I need to buy a garmin watch

Take up our quarrel with the foe
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.

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If you have Garmin Connect, TR workouts should be able to sync to Apple Health via Connect.
Same way as they do via Strava. There is no need for the head unit to be used.

TR needs to be connected to Garmin account. And Connect allowed to write data in Health app permissions.

Have you tried this?

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Iā€™ve looked through the garmin connect and Apple fitness/health settings a few times and couldnā€™t work it out but it sounds like I need to look again.
Thanks for the tip

I came here in search of a non-third party solution. I gather, after 4+ years of this request sitting in the backlog, this isnā€™t a priority for the TR team. Such a shame as it would be really nice to natively have all my TR data in Apple Health.

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Iā€™m so happy for them

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AI image creation still has a way to goā€¦

Here is an image with the Apple Health icon faded and forgotten behind the vibrant TrainerRoad icon

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