Garmin

Connect Garmin

Connect your Garmin account once, in the Shakeout app. Runs you record on your Garmin watch tick off your sessions, and the sessions in your plan appear on the watch.

The Garmin connection is not yet available in the app. It will arrive once Garmin approves it.

How to connect

There is no web login. The connection is made in the app:

  1. Open Shakeout and go to the ME tab.
  2. Choose Connected apps, then Garmin.
  3. Press Connect Garmin.
  4. Sign in to Garmin Connect on the page that opens and choose what to allow. You land back in the app.

You need a Shakeout account and a Garmin account. Shakeout never sees your Garmin password.

What you allow

Garmin asks you about two permissions, and you can allow either or both. Sharing your activities lets your runs come in. Importing workouts lets your sessions go to your watch. The app shows which of the two is on, and you can change your choice later in Garmin Connect.

What comes in

When you finish a run on your Garmin watch and it syncs to Garmin Connect, Garmin tells Shakeout. The next time you open Shakeout, it downloads the run, matches it to the session you were set, and counts it toward your weekly distance and your fitness score. Runs, treadmill runs, trail runs, track runs, ultras and virtual runs come in. Other activities do not.

The run file passes through our server on its way to your phone and is not stored there. The run itself is logged on your phone and kept in your backup, like a run from Apple Health. If Garmin Connect also writes the run to Apple Health, it is still logged once.

What goes out

Your next 30 running sessions are added to your Garmin Connect calendar as workouts, with each step's distance or time and its pace range. Sync your watch and they are there to run. When your plan changes, the workouts on Garmin are updated to match, and a session that leaves your plan is taken off your calendar.

Nothing else is sent to Garmin.

How to disconnect

In Shakeout, go to ME, then Connected apps, then Garmin, and press Disconnect. We delete the access Garmin gave us straight away and tell Garmin to revoke it. You can also remove Shakeout in Garmin Connect, under Settings, then Account Information, then Connected Apps. After that nothing comes in or goes out, and Shakeout asks you to connect again. Runs already logged stay in your training either way.

Deleting your Shakeout account disconnects Garmin as well.

Your data

What we keep for the connection, and for how long, is in section 4.3 of thePrivacy Policy.

Help

Email support@shakeout.io, and say that it is about Garmin. More answers are on the support page.