Subject: Help with a high school science project Hi, I was wondering if anyone in this community had the time and would be willing to help my daughter gather some data for her high school science project. She is doing an experiment on the effect of visual feedback from heart monitors and cycling computers on your workouts. To do the experiment you will need:
. a bike (I assume we all have one of these )
. a trainer for your bike
. heart monitor
. bike computer
. an audio workout that prompts for levels of effort in terms of perceived exertion and % of heart rate. For example I used the Cardiocoach vol 3, but any 40 minute workout of varying intensity would work.
The experiment involves doing the same workout twice on different days. One using audio prompts, plus the cycling computer, plus the heart monitor. On the second workout cover the cycling computer, don't look at your heart monitor, and just follow the perceived exertion prompts. She is looking to collect the following data from the workout: distance, calories burned, average heart rate (bpm and % of max ), avg speed, max speed, max heart rate (bpm and % of max. For example here are two workouts that I did for her:
Workout 1 - Heart rate + computer feedback
Distance - 10.47
Avg HR - 121 - 70%
Calories - 430
avg speed - 15.88
max speed 24.02
max HR - 153 - 89%
Workout 2 - only audio prompts
Distance - 10.39
Avg HR - 116 - 67%
Calories - 403
Avg speed - 15.75
Max speed - 23.92
Max HR - 151 - 88%
Thanks in advance from both my daughter and myself if you have the time this week to do both workouts and post the results back here. I will repeat the experiment for her this week, but she really needs a larger sample than just myself and the couple of workouts I can log between now and Sunday when she needs to pull the data together and build her presentation.
Thanks again!
Doug
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