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Send a training to your watch

Get your coach's intervals on your wrist, on Apple Watch or Suunto.

For members Updated July 2026

No more squinting at your phone between reps, or trying to remember whether the third interval was 800 or 1000. Send the session your coach built to your Watch and it counts the intervals for you.

What you need, whichever watch you have

  • A training that has a structured workout in it. A session with only a description has nothing to send.
  • A training type of running, cycling, or swimming. Fitness sessions are not supported, and multisport goes to an Apple Watch only.

Send it

  1. Open the training

    Tap the session in your club's training list to open its detail screen.

  2. Tap Export to my watch

    The button sits just below Add to Calendar, and it now asks where the session should go: Apple Watch or Suunto. If you cannot see the button at all, the session is missing one of the requirements above, most often a structured workout. Once sent, each destination reports back on its own: Apple reads On your Apple Watch, Suunto reads In your Suunto account.

On an Apple Watch

What it needs

An iPhone running iOS 17 or later, and an Apple Watch paired to it. Konia does not check for the Watch, so the button appears either way, but there is nothing to receive the workout without one.

On iOS 18 or later you also get your coach's notes as the step names on the Watch. On iOS 17 the steps show Apple's generic labels instead, so you see "Work" where an iOS 18 user sees "controlled, not flat out".

Confirming the send

Apple's own workout preview opens, showing the session broken into its steps. Add it from there.

The first time you do this, Konia shows a short explainer on where to find the workout, because it does not land where most people look. It is in the Workout app on the Watch, in its own Konia section, usually near the top of the list.

Sessions that schedule themselves

This is the part worth knowing. For a future training with a fixed start time, Konia schedules the workout, and it appears on your Watch automatically on the day of the session. You do not have to go looking for it on Tuesday evening: it is there.

Two kinds of session do not get scheduled, and reach your Watch only if you add them yourself from Apple's preview sheet:

  • Free-time trainings, since there is no start time to schedule against.
  • Past trainings, if you are looking back at something to repeat.

If your coach changes the session: send it again. Konia replaces the workout on your Watch rather than adding a second copy, so you never end up choosing between three versions of Tuesday intervals.

What actually arrives

For running, cycling, and swimming, the full structure comes across: every step, its distance or duration, and whatever target your coach set, whether that is a pace, a speed, watts, or a zone. Swim workouts now carry their targets too. A zone travels as a plain number, so it is your own watch's zone settings that decide what it asks of you, not your coach's.

Multisport is different. It exports as a proper multisport workout with automatic swim, bike, and run transitions, which is the point of it. What it cannot carry is interval structure inside each leg, because Apple's multisport workouts do not support it. So you get the shape of the session and the transitions on your wrist, and the detail of each leg stays in the Konia app.

A target can occasionally not make it. Apple decides which kinds of alert it accepts for each activity, and silently ignores any it will not take. When that happens the step still arrives with its distance or duration, just without the alert, and nobody is told. If a target matters for a session, put it in the step note as well, where it becomes the step name on iOS 18 and later.

On a Suunto watch

Connecting

Connect once from Me, then My preferences, then Watches. After that Suunto appears in the picker alongside Apple Watch. Unlike the Apple route there is no iPhone requirement: Suunto works from an Android phone too.

Your account first, then your watch

A Suunto guide reaches your Suunto account first, not the watch. Open the Suunto app to sync it across, which is why the button settles on In your Suunto account rather than claiming it is already on your wrist. While you are in there, the guide's details screen lists every step in order, so you can read the whole session on your phone before you head out.

On the watch, the lap button moves you to the next step whenever you are ready, even on a step that would otherwise run to a time or a distance. A step measured in distance counts down as you go, so a 400 m rep tells you how much of it is left instead of only your pace and heart rate.

What is different

Three differences worth knowing before you rely on it:

  • No multisport. Running, cycling and swimming only. A brick session has to stay on Apple Watch.
  • Zone targets show as text, not as a gauge, and pool length comes from your watch's own settings rather than the session.
  • Coach notes are shortened to roughly 40 characters on the wrist, without accents. The full note is on the guide's details screen in the Suunto app.

Disconnecting

To stop, go back to Watches and choose Disconnect. Konia stops sending, and anything already sent stays in your Suunto account.

If it will not send

Apple Watch

  • The button is missing: the training has no structured workout, or it is a fitness session. On a multisport session it also stays hidden until at least one step is tagged with a sport. Ask your coach to check.
  • "Konia isn't allowed to schedule workouts": permission was turned off. On your Apple Watch, go to Settings > Workout > Connected Apps and allow Konia again.
  • Nothing on the Watch afterwards: open the Workout app on the Watch and scroll to the Konia section. A scheduled session only appears on the day it takes place.

Suunto

  • "Reconnect needed": your Suunto authorisation expired or was withdrawn. Open Me, then My preferences, then Watches, and connect again. Konia offers Connect rather than a retry, because the old link is gone.
  • "Multisport isn't supported on Suunto": send a brick session to an Apple Watch instead.
  • "This workout has too many steps for a Suunto guide": a very long session with many repeats holds more steps than a Suunto guide can carry. Shorten it, or split it into two sessions.
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