Apple Watch Training Peaks Integration: How It Actually Works!

Here's everything you need to know about Apple Watch & TrainingPeaks integration.

It’s been more than 6 months since Apple and TrainingPeaks announced plans for integration back at WWDC, and it’s finally here. In some ways, it’s kinda funny. From an end-user perspective, this actually isn’t some mind-bending new fancy feature. Instead, it’s a slate of mostly behind-the-scenes programmatic changes that makes it seamless and easy to execute your pre-planned TrainingPeaks structured workouts using the Apple Watch. In other words, it’s about dramatically increasing the ‘just works’ factor.

You see, back in June at Apple’s developer conference, they announced a few development features that let companies ‘push’ workouts to the Apple Watch. This is a big deal because previously a company like TrainingPeaks would had to have developed their own entire Apple Watch workout app (plus a corresponding iPhone app). Everything from dealing with GPS recording to power sensor data to running and cycling metrics and more. Things that take teams of people to do at scale. Now? No Apple Watch app at all. They just send a workout file to Apple, and you use the native Apple Watch Workout app. Easy-peasy.

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