Just crossing over to use the platform and getting started. I wondered if anyone has solved a persistent problem I’ve had: my main training is for mountaineering and carrying heavy packs uphill is a cornerstone of my sessions, in fact I seldom do an unweighted effort. So the weight has a huge influence on performance, and would be very useful to track. Carrying extra load also makes all of the other calculations, from calorie burn to TSS etc, inacurate.
I wondered has anyone found a solution to this? For a while I would edit to body weight for a particular day to include the extra weight carried, which was not ideal.
Do you have any ideas on how to handle this? Assuming there was a weight carried field. TSS based on HR should still work because presumably your HR will be higher stomping uphill with a big pack … or it will take longer which will also increase TSS.
Hi, thanks for having a think about this. Having the field would be a great start, could then possibly track it against elevation gain and distance seperatly, to provide an external load kg/m ascent or kg/km metric for training volume.
The scoring issue would be secondary to tracking, as there’s always perceived exertion to fall back on. I imagine though that the additional weight would interact with calorie expenditure, which would again help with tracking load more accurately.
You’re right of course HR TSS does capture something meaningful - but it seems to me to underrated significantly the muscular endurance component of weighted sessions and recovery needs. Uphill Athlete used to recommend editing hrTSS with a fudge factor of (I think) the percentage of body weight carried. That sort of thing would be best left manual though.