Logging routes and injuries
How to record your sport and boulder ascents in ClimbrLab, and how to track an injury so your coach can factor it into your plan.
The app interface is currently in Spanish only. Buttons and messages are quoted as you will see them, with the English meaning in brackets.
Your ascents
In Mis ascensiones (My ascents), the Nueva ascensión (New ascent) button opens the form. What gets recorded:
- Date and discipline (sport or boulder)
- Grade, in the system you chose in your profile
- Country and area, and optionally the sector and the name of the route or boulder
- Attempts, and whether it was sent
About grades: they are stored exactly as you enter them and converted on the fly for whoever is looking. If you work in French and your coach in Yosemite, each of you sees their own system without either having to translate anything.
Filling in area and sector is worth the effort even when you cannot be bothered: it is what later lets you see where you actually climb and on what rock style you progress.
Injuries
In Control de lesiones (Injury tracking) you can record an issue two ways: with the + Nueva incidencia (New issue) button, or by clicking directly on the area on the body diagram and pressing + Registrar aquí (Log here).
For each injury we store:
- Area or muscle - the more specific the better: “A2 pulley - right ring finger” says far more than “finger”
- Type - tendinopathy, overuse, whatever it is
- Severity - high, medium or low
- Start date and next review
- Status - under treatment, recovering, monitoring or resolved
- Description - how it happened, symptoms, context
- Treatment notes - exercises, restrictions, timeframes
Your coach gets a notification the moment you log an injury. It is the fast route to making sure they know your plan needs adjusting - more reliable than telling them at the gym and hoping they remember.
Each record keeps track of who logged it: you, your coach or a physiotherapist. That way it is clear where each instruction came from.
When you recover, edit the injury and mark it resolved rather than deleting it. The history of resolved injuries is exactly what helps spot whether something is happening to you repeatedly.