Integrazione con Apple Health
To answer the question you came here with, straight away: Lactate Training does not connect to Apple Health. There is no such connection today. The two routes into the app are a Garmin connection and a Strava connection, and if your training data lives in Apple Health and nowhere else, neither of those can reach it.
That is the honest state of things, and it is better to read it here in one line than to work it out after an hour of looking for a setting that does not exist.
What that actually rules out
Apple Health is a store on your own device. An iPhone and an Apple Watch write a great deal into it — workouts, heart rate, sleep, resting heart rate, and more besides — and a lot of that is genuinely useful training data. But a store is not a connection. Unless an app reads from Apple Health, none of it travels, and nothing here reads from Apple Health.
So if your running history exists only as Apple Watch workouts sitting in Apple Health, that history cannot come across. Nor can the overnight data your Apple Watch records. This is a limit worth knowing rather than working around with guesswork.
The route that does work for an Apple athlete
Here is the useful part. Most Apple Watch users are not in a closed box, because Strava already sits in the middle of the Apple ecosystem. The Strava app on an iPhone can record a run directly, and its own watch app records straight to your Strava account. For people who prefer Apple's Workout app, third-party bridging apps exist specifically to move finished Apple Watch workouts into Strava. Indoor platforms and training apps commonly offer a Strava upload too.
If your activities are reaching Strava — or you are willing to start recording in a way that sends them there — then a Strava connection is the realistic route in for a non-Garmin athlete. Whether any specific app or device pushes to Strava is a question for that app's own settings, not for Strava and not for us, so check at that end first.
What you will and will not get that way
Be clear-eyed about this, because it is the whole trade.
| What a coach works from | Via a Strava connection |
|---|---|
| Your completed sessions, sport, duration, distance | Yes |
| Route, pace and elevation | Yes |
| Heart rate through the session | Yes, where the recording captured it |
| Splits and intervals | Usually, where the original file contained them |
| Weeks of training load stacked up | Yes |
| Resting heart rate trend | No |
| Overnight HRV | No |
| Sleep | No |
In plain English: good session analysis, a thinner recovery picture. Everything your Apple Watch knows about your nights stays on your wrist and in Apple Health. What you ran, and how it went, comes through fine.
That matters because the recovery rows are the ones that answer "should I do this session at all". Without them, a plan can respond to what you have done but not to the cost of it. You can partly fill that gap yourself: look at your own sleep and resting heart rate in Apple Health, and read the direction of travel over a week rather than any single night. Our pieces on what HRV status is measuring and on a rising resting heart rate are written around Garmin's version of those numbers, but the physiology is the same whoever made the watch — and the signs of overtraining do not need a wearable to spot at all.
None of that is medical advice. If a resting heart rate stays high, if you feel persistently unwell, or if anything about your heart worries you, speak to a doctor rather than reading a graph.
If you are choosing a watch
The overnight rows in that table are the reason a Garmin connection gives a fuller picture than any route an Apple Watch has into this app. If you already own an Apple Watch, do not replace it on the strength of a table on a website — session data is the bulk of what coaching runs on, and you have that. If you are buying anyway, the Garmin guide sets out what the fuller connection carries.
Frequently asked questions
Does this app sync with Apple Health?
No. There is no Apple Health connection. The app connects to Garmin and to Strava, and your Apple Health data is not readable through either of those.
Can I use the app with an Apple Watch at all?
Yes, if your workouts reach Strava. The Strava app can record on an iPhone or an Apple Watch, and third-party bridging apps exist to move Apple Watch workouts into Strava. Once an activity is in Strava, a Strava connection can read it.
Will my Apple Watch sleep and HRV come through?
No. Those live in Apple Health and travel through neither a Garmin nor a Strava connection. Strava holds activities, not overnight health data.
What do I lose without the overnight data?
The recovery side of the picture. Session analysis and training load work from your activities and are unaffected, but nothing can tell you that you are starting today already depleted without a resting heart rate trend, sleep and HRV to read.
Can I export my Apple Health history in somehow?
Not into this app, no. Apple Health can produce an export of its own data, but there is no route for feeding that in here. Going forward, recording in a way that reaches Strava is the practical answer.
Work with the data you can actually get across
An Apple athlete is not short of training data — it is just sitting somewhere nothing can read it. Get your sessions into Strava and Lactate Training can read them, build and adapt a plan around them, and set your zones from your lactate threshold rather than an age-based guess.