Garmin Connect and Strava (RUNNA) – new link to Google Health Connect
At Google’s developer conference, Google I/O 2025, the company announced support for Garmin Connect and RUNNA (Strava-owned as of April 2025).
Types of Data Health Connect Can Sync
Health Connect sync supports synchronising both workout-like and wellness data. It can act as a staging post for sharing between apps rather than any given app having to organise synchronisation with partner apps.
Garmin and Strava (Runna) will have control over the direction of the sync (one-way or two-way) and which data they share with Google, but once Google has it, there is nothing to stop any other app from accessing that data. However, you do have control over every type of sync.
A new medical records synchronisation capability was also announced.
Fitness & Workout Data
- Workout sessions (e.g., running, cycling, swimming)
- Steps, distance, speed
- Calories burned
- Heart rate during exercise
- VO₂ max, FTP, lactate threshold
Wellness & Daily Health Data
- Sleep data (duration, stages)
- Heart rate (resting, continuous)
- Stress levels
- Hydration tracking
- Nutrition (e.g., calories, macros from food logs)
- Menstrual cycle tracking
- Body measurements (weight, BMI, etc.)
- Vitals (blood pressure, blood glucose )
Medical Records API (New)
- Allergies
- Immunisations
Take Out
Don’t get excited about suddenly being able to put non-Garmin workout data into Garmin Connect automatically. That almost certainly won’t happen. Garmin will tightly control the direction and type of data transfer.
Last Updated on 11 April 2026 by the5krunner
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Nice spelling bro
Finally some good news from Garmin.
Syncing the data from my Withings scale to Garmin without having to rely on a paid 3rd party service would be awesome.
Yes I would hope this is one of the scenarios Garmin supports, but it is by no means certain it will allow that data in
I’ve been using the following open source project to sync from a Withings scale to GC for years. Probably needs a bit of technical knowhow to use it though.
https://github.com/jaroslawhartman/withings-sync
didn’t fitnesssyncer do it as well? can’t rememebr…ages ago when i used to look at all that stuff. they were maximally linked to everything they could get into….for a fee
I sync my Withings scale to Garmin via MyFitnesspal
a it missleading line “… share to Google…”
Health Connect retrieves and atores the data locally on your devixe and doesn’t sync it to any cloud.
You can actually test this by yourself with two android phones both set them up with health connect and aggregate different apps on them and after a few days you see that both health connect instances are not synced at all even if the phone is connected to the same google account.
stores it locally in a Google app. ie shares to Google
Thought Strava had blocked data sharing
strava has control.
google has said strava is interested in this (writing to Health)
https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=JToBEy0jfe6pIygark2Ui5
Looks like your prediction was (as usual) right: Only one way transfer of some activity and health data from Garmin to Health Connect. Not cool Garmin 🙁
Source: Noteboookcheck