Garmin & Meta AI: Create Structured Workouts via Voice

Your Garmin watch can now receive and run structured workouts created entirely through voice commands. A new integration with Meta allows you to speak your training goals and have complete workouts loaded onto your watch instantly.

An Overview – Is It for You?

The breakthrough comes through integration with Ray-Ban Meta or Oakley Meta smart glasses. Simply speak and describe your workout, and your watch receives a fully structured training session with targets and alerts.

Examples include:

• “Create a 1-hour run at 14 minutes per mile”
• “I’m going for a 12-mile run in heart rate zone 2”
• “Create a 30-minute bike ride at 85 cadence”

Your Garmin receives these as complete structured workouts with all the intervals, targets, and alerts you expect from manually programmed sessions.

How It Works

Meta’s AI processes voice commands spoken to the smart glasses, translates them into structured workout data, and transmits it to your paired Garmin via your phone. Once loaded, your watch handles everything—real-time guidance, zone alerts, lap summaries, and full integration with your training history.

The phone is needed during workout creation, but once the session loads onto your Garmin, the watch operates independently as it would with any ‘normal’ workout.

Why This Matters

This marks the first time your Garmin watch can accept dynamically generated, AI-created workouts from third-party sources. Previously, you had to pre-program workouts through Garmin’s interface or sync them from training platforms.

The process eliminates advanced planning or fiddling with your watch to create a workout. You can decide on workout structure moments before heading out, speaking your intentions naturally while your watch handles the technical details.

Compatibility Requirements

You’ll need:

• A compatible Garmin watch
• Ray-Ban Meta, Oakley Meta HSTN, or Oakley Meta Vanguard smart glasses
• The Meta AI Connect IQ app on your Garmin
• Your smartphone nearby during workout creation

Note on Garmin’s Own Voice Features

Some Garmin models, like the Fenix 8, have built-in voice commands that work offline for basic tasks, such as starting activities. That’s a different system—this new capability uses the smart glasses’ AI to create complex, structured workouts that your Garmin then executes.

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Availability

Update your smart glasses software and pair with your Garmin device.

Source: Meta v21 Software Update

Last Updated on 13 March 2026 by the5krunner

the5krunner

tfk is the founder and author of the5krunner, an independent endurance sports technology publication. With 20 years of hands-on testing of GPS watches and wearables, and competing in triathlons at an international age-group level, tfk provides in-depth expert analysis of fitness technology for serious athletes and endurance sport competitors.