Zwift and Rouvy rides can count toward your Garmin training load, MyWhoosh rides cannot, according to Garmin’s current list. What counts is the platform’s own link to Garmin Connect: a ride that arrives that way can update your training metrics, a file you download and import yourself is not covered by that list.
Which platforms are on Garmin’s list?
Garmin’s support page Can Third-Party Activities Impact My Garmin Training Metrics?, read on 13 October 2026, names seven platforms whose activities “will impact your Garmin training metrics”:
| Platform | On Garmin’s list |
|---|---|
| Zwift | yes |
| Rouvy | yes |
| MyWhoosh | no |
| Concept2, Peloton, SYSTM, TrainerRoad, Wahoo | yes |
The metrics Garmin names are Training Status, the activity’s training load, aerobic and anaerobic Training Effect, the primary benefit and VO2 max. An older Garmin page, Why Is My Training Status Not Updating, still lists a shorter set: the Tacx Training app, Zwift, Rouvy and TrainerRoad. Both agree on Zwift and Rouvy, and neither mentions MyWhoosh.
What does Garmin require even for Zwift and Rouvy?
Three things, all on the same Garmin page. Your Garmin device has to support Unified Training Status. An activity of the same type has to be recorded on your Garmin device itself, with a VO2 max estimate measured during it. After the platform’s ride arrives in Garmin Connect, you sync your Garmin device twice: the first sync brings the ride to the device, the device calculates, the second sync sends the result back.
What is the difference between the linked app and a file?
The linked app is the case Garmin describes: the ride arrives “from the third-party platform” you linked to your Garmin account. A file is something else. Garmin Connect lets you import a FIT file on its website, but nothing on Garmin’s list says that an imported file counts, whichever app recorded it.
We saw both sides on our own account. A Zwift ride from 9 September 2026, which Zwift had sent through its own link, showed a Training Effect with the primary benefit “Base”. A Wahoo ride from 31 August 2026, which another sync app had uploaded as a file, showed distance, heart rate and power, but no Training Effect and no training load.
Where does that leave MyWhoosh?
Outside the list. A MyWhoosh ride that reaches Garmin Connect arrives as a file from a platform Garmin does not name, so the conditions above do not apply to it. Garmin’s page offers no other way for it.
Is the training load in the Zwift file?
No. We read two Zwift ride files fetched from Garmin Connect on 27 September 2026, and neither carries a Training Effect or load field. Garmin calculates the values itself, which is why the link matters and the file alone does not. More in why an uploaded ride shows no Training Effect in Garmin Connect.
Does Nabe send Zwift or MyWhoosh rides?
No. At launch Nabe reads from Wahoo, Strava, Apple Health and FIT files you import, and writes to Garmin Connect, Strava and Apple Health; it has no connection to Zwift, MyWhoosh or Rouvy. A virtual ride that Wahoo lists without a ride file is skipped for Garmin with the reason “no file at Wahoo”. What Nabe changes in the files it does send is in what changes in a FIT file when Nabe sends it to Garmin.