How to Send a Workout From Garmin Connect to Your Edge

1. SurgeIQ Labthe workout you planned
2. Garmin Connectrebuilt in the workout editor
3. Send to Deviceor put on the calendar
4. Syncphone, Wi‑Fi or USB
5. Garmin EdgeTraining › Workouts

When to use Garmin Connect instead of the file

SurgeIQ Lab gives you a FIT workout file, and the quickest way onto an Edge is copying it over USB (see how to export a cycling workout to your Garmin Edge). Garmin Connect can’t import that file, so going through Garmin Connect means typing the workout into its editor. It’s worth the few minutes when:

• you want the session on a date in the Garmin calendar;
• you don’t have a computer handy, or your Mac won’t see the Edge;
• you ride the same session every week and want it saved in Garmin Connect for good.

Build the workout in Garmin Connect

On your phone (Garmin Connect app)

1. Open the menu.
2. Select Training & Planning › Workouts › Create a Workout.
3. Choose the activity: cycling.
4. Add the steps (below).
5. Select Save, enter a name and select Save again.

On a computer (connect.garmin.com)

1. Sign in at connect.garmin.com.
2. Go to Training & Planning › Workouts.
3. Create a new cycling workout, add the steps and save it.

The website is easier for anything with more than a few steps, because the bigger screen means less scrolling and fewer typos. Use the phone when you’re out of the house or making a quick change.

Copying the steps across

Keep SurgeIQ Lab’s step chart open beside the editor and enter it top to bottom. For Threshold 2 × 15:

1. Warm-up, 15 minutes, easy.
2. Interval, 15 minutes, 95–100% FTP.
3. Recovery, 5 minutes, easy.
4. Interval, 15 minutes, 95–100% FTP.
5. Cool-down, 10 minutes, easy.

For longer sets, put the interval and its recovery in a repeat block instead of typing them five times. Garmin workouts support repeating a group of steps a set number of times, or until a time or another condition is reached. Name the workout the way you’ll want to find it at 6 a.m.: “Tue Threshold 2×15” beats “Workout 3”.

Entering targets

Garmin cycling workouts can use power, heart-rate and cadence targets, and a step can carry a second target as well, such as a power target with a cadence range on top. SurgeIQ Lab writes power as a percentage of FTP. If you enter fixed watts in Garmin Connect, convert first:

Fixed watts stay fixed. After a new FTP test, every workout you entered in watts needs editing, while a % FTP target on the Edge simply follows the new number. That trade-off is covered in power, heart-rate and cadence targets in Garmin workouts.

Send it to the Edge

1. In the app (menu) or on the website, go to Training & Planning › Workouts.
2. Find the workout you saved.
3. Select the send icon or Send to Device.
4. Follow the prompts and choose your Edge if you have more than one Garmin device.

That queues the workout for the Edge. It isn’t on the Edge until the next sync. If you’d rather it showed up on a particular day, schedule it on the Garmin Connect calendar instead (see the Garmin calendar guide).

Make sure it synced

Garmin documents three ways an Edge syncs with Garmin Connect:

• Garmin Connect app on your phone. A paired Edge syncs automatically when it’s within about 10 m (30 ft) of your phone. Turn the Edge on next to your phone and give it a minute; opening the app on your phone is a good nudge.
• Wi‑Fi. Edges that support it can connect over a known network, once you’ve set Wi‑Fi up through the Garmin Connect app or Garmin Express.
• Garmin Express over USB. Plug the Edge into a computer running Garmin Express.

Then check the Edge itself: Training › Workouts should list the workout under the name you gave it. Do this the night before. Finding out at the trailhead that the phone was in airplane mode is how threshold days turn into “endurance, I suppose” days. If it still isn’t there, see Garmin workout troubleshooting.

Which Edges this covers

Garmin’s Edge 1040 and 1050 manuals describe this exact flow, and the Edge 540 and 840 use the same Training › Workouts list on the device. Older and entry-level Edges may name things differently or not support every target type; check your model’s manual on Garmin’s site.