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closeMeasuring nature of the effort
Posted by pledesma on 16 Apr 2019 at 13:14 GMT
With the technology available to cyclists, why did you base the study only on time spent cycling rather than measuring things like power output of the rider, heart rate, even just cadence of pedaling, to be glean some insights about the nature of the effort? Perhaps the speed afforded by the electric assist motivated the e-bike riders to exert more effort. Perhaps they tended to spin more and "mash" less.
RE: Measuring nature of the effort
lleyland replied to pledesma on 17 Apr 2019 at 12:43 GMT
Thank you for your comment. For this part of the project, we were focusing on the cognitive and well-being measures to assess whether there was an effect of cycling on these aspects and we needed to make choices which measures to include for this initial study. We certainly agree, that in future work, these additional measures of physiological output would be useful to determine a dose rate of cycling and to investigate the relative contributions of aerobic exercise compared to other benefits of cycling, including increasing mobility an independence, in terms of their impact on increasing cognition and well-being.