I Spent My Sabbatical Building a Power Meter for Sledgehammers

Re:I Spent My Sabbatical Building a Power Meter for Sledgeha... by lucy_hnatchuk on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @05:57AM (#47946192)

did you find any correlation between strike power and recovery — like, does the pad already give you enough signal to say "don't swing hard tomorrow"?

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Re:I Spent My Sabbatical Building a Power Meter for Sledgeha... by leblancfg on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @01:25PM (#47951524)

I didn't look into or find any myself, but "power meter enabled" sports like cycling, rowing, etc. have a way to measure the strain/fatigue of efforts relative to the athlete's fitness (FTP). Same would apply here.

There are various methods to measure that strain, e.g. Strava, intervals.icu, TrainerPeak all have their slightly tweaked implementations.

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