What activity to use for calisthenics?

Calisthenics is what I do, too, and I use Strength. Works absolutely fine.

The only issues are:

- the current Garmin screens for structured workouts needs improvement (there is a few threads on this)

- the Garmin list of exercises is fixed and not very good (you cannot program an exercise if it is not on the list)

Thanks for your reply. I tried the strength activity in free mode. Is that the one you use? . Let me ask you this. Since calisthenics is mostly about working with body weight, do you enter any "weight" when asked at the end of the set?

It may sound silly but how can the calculations be any accurate by the end of it, if the app isn't really understanding what I'm doing. Doing pull-ups isn't the same as dips or Bulgarian push-ups, face pulls, bodyweight row and so on. Do you do anything that helps the watch be more accurate? 

thnks!

Thank you Ilya, I will give it a try!

It's a little bit fiddly -- but once you're done, you don't have to worry about the algorithm trying to guess what you're doing.

I found a tutorial: www.youtube.com/watch

This is fantastic! Thanks a lot Ilya :)

don't add weight if using bodyweight. When you review in Garmin it will note that bodyweight was used.

Load calcs are based on EPOC, which is determined off HR - so the more strenuous it is whether additional weights or with just bodyweight will auto picked up by the effort required.

sfs