BulkForged — Lifting Coach
· v1.0.10
About
Requires the BulkForged phone app and a BulkForged account. The phone app is on
Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bulkforged.app
Android today. iPhone owners can join the waitlist at
https://bulkforged.com/apply -- there is no iPhone app to install yet.
Make the account in the app, then pair. Pairing itself takes about a minute and
happens entirely on the watch.
BulkForged puts your next set on your wrist.
Strength training and gym workouts, logged from the watch: sets, reps, weight and
reps-in-reserve, with no phone in your hand and no connection needed.
The BulkForged phone app runs a progressive-overload engine that decides what you lift
next -- double progression, applied for you, exercise by exercise. This watch app is the
wrist half of it: your routines arrive on the watch, you log every set from your wrist,
and finished sessions flow back.
ON THE WATCH
- Guided sessions - your routine, exercise by exercise, with the prescribed weight and
rep range for the set you are on.
- Log from your wrist - weight, reps and reps-in-reserve.
- Rest timer between sets.
- Cardio bouts - indoor or outdoor, with GPS distance and calories outdoors.
- Bodyweight logging.
- Deload-aware - during a deload week the watch simply prescribes the lighter numbers.
- Fully offline - start, run and finish a workout with no phone and no connection.
Everything queues and syncs when a connection returns.
- An equal peer to the phone - a workout started on either device shows on the other,
set for set, while it is still in progress.
FOR LIFTERS
Barbell, dumbbell, machine, cable and bodyweight work -- push/pull/legs, upper/lower,
full body, or a split of your own. The phone app builds the plan and moves the targets;
the watch runs the session.
SETUP
In the phone app open Settings, then Account, and tap Generate pairing code. On the watch
open BulkForged and choose Pair to enter the 8-digit code. Pairing happens on the watch,
so the Connect Mobile app-settings screen is never needed.
WHY THESE PERMISSIONS
- Communications - talks only to BulkForged's own sync service, to pull your routines and
upload finished sessions. Workouts run fully offline.
- Positioning and FIT - GPS distance and calories for outdoor cardio only. Indoor cardio
never turns GPS on.
- Sensor History - reads the Body Battery and stress history already on your watch to
show a training-readiness signal.
Runs on 41 Garmin models - fenix 6, 7 and 8, epix, Enduro, MARQ and Forerunner.
BulkForged is a training tool, not medical advice. Train within your limits.
What's new
Adds the fēnix 9 family to the store listing: fēnix 9 43mm, fēnix 9 47mm / 51mm, fēnix 9 Pro 43mm / 47mm / 51mm, and fēnix 9 Pro Solar 47mm / 51mm — seven products, 48 declared in all. No behaviour change; the same build as 1.0.9 compiled for the wider list. Garmin added these devices to the Connect IQ SDK Manager on 2026-08-25, and every one of them carries the round display, five-key input and 768 KB watch-app budget the app already targets. The layout suite passes on all seven screens, including the one glass size new to the list: 466px on the 9 Pro 51mm. The 9 Pro Solar's 260/280px MIP panels are sizes the fēnix 6, 7 and 8 entries already covered.