I hope we shall hear more from Polar and Final Surge as the year progresses but, for today, Polar and Final Surge have announced a simple link-up where your completed Polar Trainings are piped through to the Final Surge coaching and analysis platform
Existing Polar users can set up their account to link to their Final Surge here and as shown below
Final Surge’s business model is to make revenues from the sale of TRAINING PLANS, so all the other stuff is free.
https://the5krunner.com/2018/12/29/final-surge-ciq-plans-and-new-structured-workouts/
Last Updated on 20 January 2026 by the5krunner
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That’s good news .. as a first step. As it looks now, the data will go from Polar to Final Surge, but you won’t get the benefit of syncing the planned workouts (especially structured workouts) from Final Surge to Polar, right?
Because if that would happen, Polar would match Garmin when looking at the flexibility to manage your training with proper API.
I know I’d really want to see this happening..
I know final surge and polar both have more announcements to come over the coming months. let’s see exactly what they are.
No Final Surge for me (Flow or site).
thank you, just updated the link (I wrote the article and scheduled it some time ago so couldn’t get the correct link until today)