You should always be using hrTSS for any aerobic/anaerobic activity! So if you did a hike with 3,000ft and 10% body weight you should add an additional 40TSS on top of your hrTSS. As long as you are consistent with the way you add TSS onto weighted uphill hikes your data will work great! This is how I calculate it additional TSS for my athletes.

This article explains it in another way, slightly different than Carolyn and I calculate but the same exact idea with other examples: https://uphillathlete.com/aerobic-training/trainingpeaks-metrics-ctl-tss/

I hope that helps!
Maya

Oh no, I can see the link! I will try and post it again: https://uphillathlete.com/aerobic-training/trainingpeaks-metrics-ctl-tss/

Did that work?

If you are carrying 20% body weight, add an additional 10TSS. If you want to add that/hour or per 1,000ft, that is up to you. I differ from that article, and I am pretty sure CP does too. I count the weight once rather than per/1,000ft, as the article says. So if you are going out for a 2hrs hike with 20% body weight and 2,000ft elevation gain, I would add 20TSS for the weight and 20TSS for the vertical. The time is accounted for based on your hrTSS, so the longer you go, the higher the number is that you add on to. For a 4hr hike with 20% body weight and 4,000vertical ft. I would add 60TSS to hrTSS. 20TSS for the weight and 40TSS for the vert.

Make sense? Either way works, just depends on how you want to do it 🙂
Maya

Hi there
When I try to add to hrTSS in TP to adjust for altitude gain, it defaults to TSS i.e it won’t stay on hrTSS. I used to be able to change it but I realised recently I’d been forgetting to adjust it so want to go back through my schedule to tweak it. Any ideas/insights?