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Climbing and stress reading

JS Berlin
over 3 years ago

I can't seem to find an activity profile that corresponds to sport climbing. My body battery bottoms out and stress levels are high and the vertical activity is not registered as movement. It will be the 5 minutes climbing and the 15 minutes resting or belaying on and off for 3 or 4 hours. Any ideas? 

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    The activity profile "Climb indoor" can be used for climbing outdoors if you don't have Rock Climbing on your watch. Then change the type to Rock Climbing in Garmin Connect afterwards. That should do it.

    Body battery needs low stress to recharge. That usually happens during sleep. The stress needs to be lower than 25 to recharge. Check the stress readings during sleep. 

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to e7andy

    Thank you, I will try the indoor climbing activity profile. Regarding stress: my body battery is 100% when I wake up, I do know how HRV and rest work. My question was in regard to the interpretation of exercise induced stress. When I cycle or run the exercise stress is INTERPRETED differently by my garmin device than when I climb.

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to JS Berlin

    What does the body battery/stress graph look like for days with climbing?

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to JS Berlin

    Climbing is usually not much movement compared to walking or running.

    Why don't you start an activity during your climbs? It might determine the stress differently when you have started an activity.

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to e7andy

    Yes, I agree, it is rather different from those continuous, repetitive exercises. I actually tried "cardio" and it switches off after a moment of inactivity. So I would have to start an activity before every single route I climb and I would end up with 10 acivities in my log. Also I would have to use my chalked up hands to fumble with my device.... I wanted to avoid this, that's why I asked if another profile is used by other climbers.

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to e7andy

    Also I guess horizontal movement is measured more easily by most devices. And upwards movement in hard climbing may be anything from 3 meters to 80 meters. For my garmin this is low HRV and high heart rate, pure stress, no movement.