Feature Request: Rucking Activity on Fenix (7) Devices?

It would be a great feature for new parents too. 

Often carrying a baby, being able to add the weight during walks would be nice.

Even like a babywalk (custom) activity, but maybe that is Connect IQ territory for now

I am dumbfounded, like many, that the rucking feature wasn't  brought to the F7. Wonder if it has to do with the software rewrite they did? 

Edit: the workaround mentioned works, for now. At the same time it raises more questions too, because it is possible then in connect, for all models, just they choose not to?

Selling me a $800 watch, want me to buy a $8 monthly Connect+ subscription and then cheese me out  of a small weight option to an activity? Come on Garmin, I can understand  some major changes being new models only, but this is minor stuff that retains customers and want to buy the next model

Build a watch like a tank, but obsolete the software in less than 2 years. You know the outdoor crowd likes to be sustainable? Then stop making throwaway Fenixes please, to motivate to buy new ones.

Keep your eye out on the next Beta for the Fenix 7....that will tell the tale.

I asked for "pack weight" on trail running and hiking activities over two years back. It's such a simple calculation for Vo2, yet here we are with this recommendation being implemented on a new model and not shipped to the people who were giving the product ideas a couple of years ago. Makes me pretty sad.

In the mean time the workaround will just be to stand on the scales with the pack on prior to a run and use that fake weight to calculate the Vo2 Max. Step back on the scales again following the run.

Indeed this would be much needed feature. Garmin please add it.

marvelmike said:

f3b's app somewhat correctly approximates calories based on body + pack weight. 

Calories change automatically, since by carrying more weight, the heart rate increases, HRV decreases, and respiration rate is faster too. That's all what the watch needs. There is no need for additional apps to correct the Calories.

I recommend f3b

Entry level Instinct 3 got it but last year top end F7Pro needs wierd workarounds to handle additional weight. Seriously, this is not a responsible product policy, its a joke Garmin...

marvelmike said:

They don't if you edit an activity from say walking to trucking for a fenix 7.

The type of activity does not matter either. The only thing that matters is the heart rate, and HRV (that's also used for the respiratory rate). That's all what is needed to estimate the metabolic rate (the Calories).