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Using your COROS with Exakt and getting the most out of it

Garmin watch Exakt Health training plan
Philip Billaudelle
Philip Billaudelle
Mar 28, 2025
By pairing your COROS watch with Exakt, you can access and follow all your running sessions from your Exakt Plan directly on the COROS watch. No need to bring you phone anymore, get all the info you need right on your watch while doing the workout.

Benefits of training with a COROS watch

By connecting your COROS watch with the Exakt App, you can access your Exakt running plan within the COROS App and on your favourite COROS device.

Training with the COROS watch, you can leave your phone at home and still be guided through the structured Exakt running session via built-in audio and vibration cues from your watch.

At the same time you'll be tracking metrics like heart rate, distance, pace, and calories burned more accurately than before and all accessible at a glance on your wrist while out on the run.

Those metrics will be saved to your COROS App and synced back automatically to Exakt.

How to pair your COROS account

To connect your COROS watch with your Exakt running plan, follow these easy steps:

  1. Open the Exakt App
  2. Go to the App settings
  3. Open the "Smartwatch" settings
  4. Click on "COROS" and then on "Connect accounts"
  5. Now the COROS Login webview will load
  6. Enter your COROS Login details
  7. Agree to the Data Privacy policy
  8. Then authorize the Login

You're connected. Your Exakt training plan will be sent from the Exakt App to the COROS App.

Pairing Exakt with the Garmin Watch
Go to Settings > Smartwatches to pair with Garmin connect

Important: Start Exakt training plan on the COROS App

Now that you've connected the Exakt and COROS accounts, we will send your Exakt workouts to the COROS App.

But you still need to start the Exakt trainin plan from your COROS App in order to see your workouts in the COROS calendar and sync it to your watch. Here's how to do it:

  • Open the COROS App
  • Click on "Profile"
  • Go to "Training Plan Library"
  • Select the "Exakt Health Training Plan"
  • Click on "Start Training Plan"

Now you're all set. The Exakt running workouts are visible in your COROS calendar and are synced automatically to your COROS watch.

Start an Exakt running workout on the COROS watch

To start your running workout from the COROS Watch, you have several options to get to and start your Exakt running sessions. The exact navigation will also depend on your device model:

1. On your COROS watch, go to the calendar view and then navigate to the day your Exakt running session is scheduled. You can click on the session to preview its structure and start it from there.

2. If you have a run scheduled for today, swipe up to see today's activity. Click on it to see the workout details and click again to start it.

3. If you have a run scheduled for today, click on starting a new Run and you'll be suggest to start your Exakt workout.

Exakt running workout on your Garmin Watch
Start your workout with your Garmin Watch

Follow an Exakt running workout on the COROS watch

Once you've started a workout, you can navigate through the workout with the usual gestures that you know from your COROS watch. The exact behaviour will depend on your COROS model.

You'll be automatically guided through the workout with audio cues and vibration when you reach the time or distance of your current step.

Complete workouts in the Exakt App

Workouts completed on your watch are automatically stored in your COROS App and synced back to the Exakt app everytime you open the App. Your corresponding running session will be marked as completed and you can review the running summary in the Exakt app.

Automatically sync completed runs
Your completed runs will automatically sync back to the Exakt App
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Philip Billaudelle
Philip Billaudelle
Philip Billaudelle is a co-founder and CEO of Exakt Health. He is passionate about trail running and helping people manage their injuries, as he also dealt with a chronic hamstring injury.
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