Activity Sport Caloria Wheelchair
Equal rights, no discrimination against people with disabilities. You have just one activity for wheelchair users (basketball), but there are studies analysed on the Internet that include 124 activities for wheelchair users, ranging from sports, housework, wheelchair driving, all measured per kcal/h/
See here. Why is it so difficult to integrate this into Cronometer?
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/A-compendium-of-energy-costs-of-physical-activities-Conger-Bassett/4623bed394dded9b036c9777da065e02643932f8
Comments
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Isn't it possible to track wheelchair driving/housework simply as regular driving/housework?
Other than that, you can always add your own custom exercises:
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Thank you very much, I did not know that you can enter something yourself, I translate all with deepl.com. I must have overlooked that. Nevertheless, it would of course be nice if you could expand the database ;-) so that we don't feel discriminated against ;-).
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I just log the closest matching wheelchair activity and then tweak the calories based on my pace and effort. Adding notes helps me keep things consistent and fair for my own tracking.
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My Polar brand heart rate monitor tracks dozens and dozens of activities, but only two wheel chair activities. But what I have learned, over time, is that it all boils down to calories burned over time. Whether it's hiking, walking, swimming, push-ups, etc, etc...at the end of the day, it's how many calories I burned over time. So, I just pick 'treadmill' and leave it set at that for my logged activity. I then extract the calories I burned for each session from my heart rate monitor program (which can be synced to Cronometer) and enter that data into Cronometer. Simplifies my life greatly. My heart does not know, or care, what I'm doing. It just pumps blood based on my physical needs no matter what. However, if your HR monitor does not collect heart rate data and computed calories burned, it can be difficult to get an estimate of calories expended. Choosing a good HRM is a health investment (my opinion) and I rely on it to track my heart health.
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I track wheelchair workouts by logging similar-intensity activities and then adjusting based on my heart rate. Mixing in something fun keeps me motivated too, like checking Egypt league tables and player ratings while cooling down. For the calorie side, pairing your own heart rate data with Cronometer’s custom exercise entries usually gets you pretty close, and you can tweak the numbers over time as you see patterns.
