Use Indoor FTP in Workout planning

[Hans_Petter_Bieker]

@david I have the same problem for some other sports where Indoor FTP is not shown when creating the workout. I think this is a general issue, but here is my case.

I do cross country skiing (Nordic skiing) and with Garmin you now get skiing power similar to running power.

I also do indoor ski training on a machine with a power meter (SkiErg) and this will automatically be uploaded as Nordic Skiing. The powers for skiing outside and inside cannot really be compared as skiing engages your full body (even more than running) does that to a lesser extent. I therefore requested a separate activity for that:

SkiErg activity

Will it be possible to add “SkiErg” or similar as an activity type? Concept2 SkiErg is an indoor training equipment used to train/simulate polling in XC skiing. The equipment will give out data such as cadence, pace/distance, and watt. By default this is logged as Nordic Skiing on Strava. It is true that it is related to Nordic Skiing / XC Skiing, but so is Roller Skiing as well – which is a separate activity type. My main reason for asking is that any pace records and watt records will be ver…

Would it be possible to:
a) create a skierg activity,
b) add support for user/custom activities, or
c) add support for selecting indoor for all activities (or at least if both an indoor and outdoor FTP is defined).

Maybe b) could be a good option as the list of sports are potentially endless. Even for Nordic skiing you would normally differentiate between classic and skate as these will have a 10 % difference in speed, use different equipment, and very different in technique.