Fitness tracker with HR monitor. Best setting for bouldering?

localgrr

Hello,

I'm experimenting trying to get an accurate bouldering read with MapMyFitness (or similar). I tried it on "Indoor climbing" and it said I burned 800 calories in 70 minutes. Um... Nope! (11cal/min) Then I tried it on gym workout and it's 245 calories for 45 minutes, still seems way too high. (5cal/min)

Any idea of a good setting? I assume with weight lifting/ gym settings on these apps they take in to account the rests you need to take. I don't want to have to manually paise every time I stop I'll just forget to restart.

Thanks

sijomial

I think basing it on HR would be terribly flawed.

You could just log the duration of your session as "strength training" from the database here to get an estimate based on your weight and METS?
(BTW - the strength training is based on total duration including recovery periods).

andrealnicholson4215

Hi. A bit late to this thread but hopefully helpful. This is a good calculator that factors your weight and the level/intensity of climbing you’re doing. I found it was less than the oft quoted 700-900 calories per hr. I’m 138lbs and one hour of low-intermediate level climbing cane out as just under 400 calories. Having done competitive sport all my life this seems to me a more realistic calorie expenditure for comparable effort: https://captaincalculator.com/health/calorie/calories-burned-rock-climbing-calculator/