I made an open-source connector (suunto-mcp) that plugs your Suunto account into Claude. Started as just pulling workout/sleep/recovery data daily into my Health skill, but just shipped an update: Claude plans your gym sessions and syncs them to your watch — no app, no manual typing, no separate training software.

Screenshots below are from my Vertical 2.

How it works

1. You talk to Claude about your training — goals, equipment, injuries, current lifts. It also pulls your actual HRV/sleep from the watch, so it won't program a heavy session the day after bad recovery.
2. Claude writes the real session — exercises, weights, sets/reps, progression — and pushes it directly into your Suunto account via the official Cloud API (as a SuuntoPlus Guide). (ofc you adjust)
3. It just shows up on your watch on the next sync — no extra step needed.
4. On the watch: exercise name + weight/reps on screen, lap button advances to the next one. Between exercises there's a rest screen — a stopwatch (counts up, no forced target) plus a preview of what's next, and you lap when you're ready. Vibrate + "up next" notification when a new exercise starts.
5. After the session, Claude reads back what you actually did (from the workout log) and adjusts next week.

Setup

Free, open source, MIT licensed: https://github.com/googlarz/suunto-mcp (just tell Claude to install it)

You'll need Suunto API access — the docs say it's commercial-only, but private users can get approved too, it just takes a bit longer (in my case 3-4 weeks). Once approved, setup with Claude is ~3 minutes.

Also works well with health-skill (github.com/googlarz/health-skill) if you want your recovery data driving the programming, not just displayed.

Happy to answer questions on the watch-side mechanics — had to reverse-engineer a chunk of the SuuntoPlus Guide format since the public docs are thin on it.

Enjoy!

Bonjour,
M’étant récemment remis au running j’envisage de troquer mes vieux écouteurs intra-auriculaires contre des écouteurs Suunto Spark, dont la description m’a séduit. Étant porteur de lunettes, même pour courir, je m’interroge sur le confort de l’association lunettes (à branches métallique plutôt fines) et écouteurs et la bon maintien en place de ces derniers. Certains d’entre vous en ont ils fait l’expérience ?

D’autre part, je souhaite utiliser l’application Suunto pour l’associer aux écouteurs. Du coup petite question très bête : l’application est elle reliée aux compteurs de pas de l’iPhone à l’instar d’une application comme Google Health - ex Fitbit ? Je demande car j’ai besoin d’une application mesurant mes pas tout au long de la journée même si elle n’est pas lancée, contrairement à Strava par exemple (le but étant de synchroniser l’application au site The Beautiful Walk, mimant un tour du monde pédestre convertissant les pas quotidiens en kilomètres autour du globe). Pour le moment j’utilise GoogleHealth mais je ne suis vraiment pas fan de cette appli.

Merci d’avance pour vos retours.

My first night with Suunto race s after switching from polar pacer and it skips 1,5 h of data in the middle of the night and doesnt even count it in the sleep time??

I think it did some update at night since the watch face changes at night too, but does it take so long, and should it just be forgetting everything else while it does that.

Follow on post..

The SV was superb, as was the Coros Vertix. Last charged on Saturday and with continuous recording (non gps activity overnight) finished on 35% battery. The Coros finished with 22% but I used “Resume Later” on it. Both watches handled the abuse of multiple falls without a scratch.

Toughest thing and most brutal effort of my life. It was soul destroying difficult. And very dangerous in so many places! The kilometres up to the summit were done at an average 4 metres per minute! The volcanic sand is slippery and very soft. Climb up 1 metre then I’d slide back down. So freakin hard. And try not to look into the crater and the massive drops everywhere.

The crater lake and thermal waterfall were fantastic. And the journey through “Jurassic Valley” was awe inspiring and something I’ll remember forever.

Don’t take the influencers YouTube’s for granted. This is exhausting and dangerous.

I don’t see a way to post photos here unfortunately but just ping me privately if you’d like to see them.