Weight carried as a variable for sessions

Hi,

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.

Thanks for any thoughts, Tom

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I’d love that too. I’m planning on starting with weights as well.

Rebadged as feature request, in case that helps!

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.

I’ve never thought about that, but yes, HR sounds like what you’re describing that right.

For running though I’d use power, no clue how that would change things. I’ve yet to get weights for my plate carrier to try while running.

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.

You can add a custom activity field for “Weight carried”:

You could also create a custom interval field with a script to calculate kg/m ascent for intervals.

Thanks - ill have a look at it.

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