How do I sync StrongLifts with Apple Health?

StrongLifts can save your workouts to Apple Health.

Each workout goes to Health with its total workout duration and calories. This also works when you log the workout on your Apple Watch.

Turn on Apple Health

1. Open StrongLifts on your iPhone.
2. Tap Settings, then Apple Health.
3. Turn on Apple Health sync.
4. On the Apple sheet, allow all the items, then tap Allow.

StrongLifts then saves each workout to Apple Health when you finish it.

Apple Health on your Apple Watch

Your first workout on your Apple Watch asks for access to Health workouts. Allow it, so StrongLifts stays open on your Watch and your Watch vibrates when your rest is done.

To change this later, open the Health app on your iPhone, tap Summary, then tap your picture or initials. Under Privacy, tap Apps, then StrongLifts.

What StrongLifts saves to Apple Health

• The workout, as Traditional Strength Training, with its start time and duration.
• Active Energy: the calories that StrongLifts calculates for the workout.
• Resting Energy: the calories your body burns at rest during the workout.
• Body weight, when you log it in Progress > Body Weight with the + button. Health keeps one weight per day from StrongLifts. A later weigh-in on the same day replaces the earlier one.

Weights from Apple Health show in the body weight chart in Progress. To log your weight, read How do I log my body weight?

If you change a workout in History, StrongLifts changes it in Health too.

Activity rings and other apps

The calories of your StrongLifts workouts count toward your Move ring.

Other apps can read your StrongLifts workouts and calories from Health, if you give them access in Health.

To learn how StrongLifts calculates your calories, read How does StrongLifts calculate the calories of my workout?.

If Active Energy in Health shows a lower number

Your Apple Watch also measures calories all day, also during your workout. So for the same minutes, Health gets calories from your Watch and from StrongLifts.

Health does not add the two. It keeps only the source that is higher in its list. Your Apple Watch is above StrongLifts by default. So the Active Energy total shows the Watch number for your workout time. Your Move ring still counts the StrongLifts calories.

To use the StrongLifts calories in Health:

1. Open the Health app and search for Active Energy.
2. Scroll down and tap Data Sources & Access.
3. Tap Edit, then drag StrongLifts above your Apple Watch.
4. Tap Done.

Health then uses the StrongLifts calories for your workout time. Outside your workouts, it still uses your Watch.