Garmin integration is coming soon.
In the meantime, connect Strava to bring your Garmin workout data into Rudder.
What data comes in (when live)
- ·Training Readiness score
- ·Body Battery
- ·HRV Status
- ·Sleep (duration, stages, score)
- ·Resting heart rate
- ·Stress level
- ·Respiration rate
- ·Blood oxygen
What Garmin is good at
The most comprehensive single-device data source in endurance sports. Training Readiness combines sleep, recovery, training load, and HRV into one score. Body Battery tracks energy throughout the day. No other wearable gives you this many signals from a single device.
What it misses
The same thing every device misses — how you actually feel. Plus Garmin’s Training Readiness and Body Battery often disagree with each other. “Pretty sure if it were up to my Garmin, I’d just be staying in bed all day.” Garmin gives you more data than any other device. It doesn’t tell you what to do with it.
How Rudder will use it
Garmin feeds two channels:
- ·Recovery channel — HRV, RHR, sleep quality and duration
- ·Load channel — training load data
Same normalization pipeline as Oura and WHOOP. Garmin’s readiness score becomes one input, not the final word. When Training Readiness and Body Battery disagree, Rudder resolves the conflict by looking at the underlying signals instead of the composite scores.
Best for
The largest wearable user base in endurance sports. Athletes who already wear Garmin but find Training Readiness unreliable for daily decisions.
Example decision
Training Readiness says 28 (low). Body Battery says 65 (moderate). You feel fine. Which one do you trust? Rudder checks: HRV trend stable, sleep 7h (adequate), recent load just 1 hard session in 3 days.
Rudder recommends GO — the low readiness score is noise from a late-night HRV reading, not genuine fatigue.
Frequently asked
- How does Rudder connect to Garmin?
- Rudder reads your Garmin workout data through Strava sync. Connect your Garmin to Strava, then connect Strava to Rudder. Your workouts, heart rate, and power data flow through automatically.
- Does Rudder use Garmin's Training Readiness score?
- Not directly. Rudder reads the raw workout data and computes its own assessment using your feel plus the training load history. This provides a richer picture than a single readiness number.
Want to know when Garmin integration launches?
Connect Strava now to get started. Your Garmin workout data already flows through Strava.
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