Creating an app to minimise risk to injury.
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Hey guys, recently people around me, both long time climbers and beginner ones, have been getting seriously injured. I've hence been sketching an app idea on managing injury risks and want honest pushback on the core piece before I sink more time into it. Specifically, how it scores injury risk.
The idea in one line:
you log your sessions (roughly how hard it felt, how long, what kind of climbing), and it gives you a daily color instead of a number — green, yellow, or red — for how much risk you're carrying right now.
How it decides the color, roughly:
* It looks at whether this week is a big jump from your last few weeks — not total volume, just how fast it's ramping up.
* Harder grip types (crimping) count for more than easier ones (open hand), same logic as a heavier lift counting for more than a lighter one.
* It also asks a 10-second daily "how are you feeling" check-in (sleep, soreness, stress) and lets that override the math — if you say you're sore, it doesn't argue with you.
A couple of examples of how it'd actually play out:
* You've been climbing 3x/week steadily for a month, nothing's changed → green.
* You jump from 2 sessions/week to 5, and start crimping way harder than you have been → red.
* Everything's normal on paper but you tell it you slept badly 3 nights running → it still bumps you to yellow, because you know your body better than a load formula does.
What I actually want opinions on:
Do those two example scenarios match what you'd expect the color to be (based on experience)?
What would make you distrust the grading, or ignore it?
Is there something obvious about how you personally gauge "am I pushing it too hard" that this doesn't account for?
Not selling anything!!! Thank you all for your help!!