Coach Leo and Health Connect
Health Connect is Android's shared health data layer — the place Samsung Health, Fitbit, Garmin Connect and most fitness apps deposit your workouts so other apps can read them. Coach Leo reads your training history from it inside the Android app, on the device itself. It is Apple Health's counterpart, and it is a genuinely separate integration: different platform, different permission model, different apps feeding it.
Read-only, on device
What you need — The Coach Leo app on Android. Health Connect is Android's shared health data layer, written to by Samsung Health, Fitbit, Garmin Connect and most fitness apps.
What Leo reads
- Your recorded workouts: type, duration, distance and heart rate
- Only the record types you grant on the Health Connect permission screen
How the sync works
On demand from the Android app, reading whatever Health Connect holds at that moment — including workouts recorded by an app that has no link to Coach Leo whatsoever.
What it does not do
- Android app only. On the web or on iOS this source does not exist — the iOS equivalent is Apple Health.
- Read-only. Coach Leo does not write anything back into Health Connect.
- Leo only sees what other apps have actually deposited there. A watch whose app does not write to Health Connect leaves nothing for Leo to read.
- It occupies the same single source slot as Strava, Suunto and Polar.
One source at a time
Leo reads one activity source at a time. Strava, Suunto, Polar and your phone's health store all carry the same workouts — a health store is fed by the same watch — so connecting a second one would duplicate every outing and leave you unable to tell which source Leo is actually reading. Switching sources takes two clicks on your connections page.
Your data
Permissions are granted per record type on Android's own Health Connect screen and can be withdrawn there at any time. Coach Leo explains in the app why each permission is requested, and health data is never used for advertising and never sold.
Your data, already in sync.
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Frequently asked questions
Is Health Connect the same thing as Apple Health?
They play the same role on different platforms and are two separate integrations. Health Connect is Android's health data layer; Apple Health is Apple's. Coach Leo supports both, each inside its own native app.
My Garmin writes to Health Connect. Does that mean Coach Leo can read my Garmin?
Yes, indirectly: if Garmin Connect deposits your workouts into Health Connect, Leo reads them from there. Going through Strava usually gives Leo a richer record, including your full history.
Does Coach Leo write my training plan into Health Connect?
No. The integration is read-only.
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