Add Cold-plunge to Activities List

Can you (Garmin) add "Cold-Plunge" to the Create Manual Activity under Activity Type under the Gym and Fitness category? Variables for user to enter should be water temperature and duration of cold-plunge.

0 trux over 2 years ago

Connect IQ developers cannot add new activity types to the existing categories.

However, you can just use the standard Open Water Swimming activity. Or make a copy of it and rename it to Cold Plunge. Both the water temperature, and the duration will be recorded.

Or use any other activity type which has the temperature recording in the options (on recent models most activities can optionally record the temperature), if you do not want to use the OW Swim. For example Cardio could be also used for that purpose.

0 4525319 6 days ago

Connect IQ developers can't add new activity types, but you can get most of the way there with an app. I ended up building one, because I wanted my contrast sessions to land in Connect properly rather than as a stopwatch on the bench.

It records water temperature, duration and heart rate, and saves as a real activity that syncs on to Strava like anything else. Contrast rounds save as laps so the whole cycle shows up rather than one block.

The bit that actually needed solving was the timing. You can't see or hear a watch with your wrist under water, so every transition is a buzz pattern you can tell apart by feel. And between rounds it waits for you rather than starting the next timer — getting out of a barrel and into a sauna takes as long as it takes.

apps.garmin.com/.../805c0f49-e594-4df3-8993-652db7870251 if it's useful. Happy to answer anything.