COSS
COMING SOON!
C.O.S.S. (COSS) – Climbing Ordered Stress Score. This will be a "Stress Score" to evaluate your training progress. You will be able to log in, have your history be anonymous, and follow a continual training/climbing log that will be as relatively accurate as you are.
As we all know, climbing has a limited research base, however, we have tried to make the values as evidence-based as much as possible. Some of the value based scores are subjective, based on what we thought had more effect toward the “stress” concerning climbing performance and recovery. The values are also an attempt to be as “user-friendly” as possible.
This score is an attempt to allow dedicated climbers an opportunity to log information into the type and magnitude of physiological adaptations to climbing. Climbing intensity, frequency and duration are important factors for performance improvement AND recovery.
As a general rule, as climbing intensity goes up volume must come down, and vice-versa, or else you will potentially become over-trained. To help quantify the psycho-social and physiological load, COSS uses your data input to calculate a “stress score” for every climbing day, week, and month, together with your current physiological/fitness status, providing a graphical picture on your individual page. COSS is an attempt to quantify both the intensity (how hard) and the volume (how much) of each climbing session, and can be viewed as a predictor of the current level of “stress” you have accumulated.
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