Come along and be part of a scientific study!

Testing is open to adults and children of all abilities. We'll be testing between 10am and 4pm on the 4th floor of the City Arts Centre every day from Monday 11th April until Saturday 16th April, and also on Monday 18th and Tuesday 19th. See you there!

Tuesday 12 April 2011

The first results are in...

Hello everybody,

I'm pleased to say that the results for everybody who completed the Wingate cycling test on Saturday 9th, Sunday 10th and Monday 11th April are now available. 

For the adults, we have had 38 people completing the test so far.  The average results of that group are as follows: Peak Power (PP) = 528W; Average Power (MP) = 429W, and Peak Power relative to body weight (this is the important one if you want to compare your results with those of your children) = 6.9 W/kg.  For the 36 children we've tested so far, average results are: Peak Power (PP) = 230W; Average Power (MP) = 201W; and Peak Power relative to body weight = 5.85W/kg. 

Have a look at the full results for adults and children to see how your performance compared to everybody elses!  If you've lost your subject number, get in contact and I can tell you what it is. 

Remember to keep checking back during the rest of the festival, to see how your relative ranking changes as we complete more tests and add more data to the lists.  At present, we only have two groups: adults and children.  When more date has been collected I will split people's results up into age categories.  I'll also be adding information about the near infrared measurements of muscle oxygenation (for those of you who had those taken as well), so please check back for that,
Thank you again for taking part, hopefully everybody is fully recovered from the exercise: who knew 20 seconds could seem so long!

Catherine

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Posted by Catherine Hesford at 20:07
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6 comments:

  1. Anonymous12 April 2011 at 21:42

    I am Calum Crawford I am a kid but I have lost my number

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  2. Catherine Hesford12 April 2011 at 22:29

    Hi Calum,

    If you send me an email: chesfo@essex.ac.uk, and tell me your date of birth and the day you were at the festival, I'll find your subject number for you and email it back to you.

    Thanks,

    Catherine

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  3. profchriscooper13 April 2011 at 08:50

    Catherine,

    Great stuff. It might be worth mentioning to the adults that we made it a bit easier for them (less power) to make sure everyone finished the test OK. They might end up with a higher peak power if we tested them back at our lab in Essex. But the kids have done great!

    all the best

    Prof. Chris

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  4. Anonymous13 April 2011 at 09:45

    My son really enjoyed doing the test and his friend is thinking of going along to see if he can beat him! I'm a high school teacher, and it would be great if this could be done with school groups. There is a whole section on Physiology, Health and Exercise in Advanced Higher.

    Thanks again, Fiona

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  5. profchriscooper14 April 2011 at 08:54

    Fiona,

    Thanks for this comment. We do research of this type with school groups, but of course we are based in Essex so not much help to you. Heriot Watt have a good sports science department. You might see if they have any schools outreach. I'll ask around my contacts.

    Glad your son enjoyed it!

    Prof. Chris Cooper

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  6. Jerry Moriarty15 April 2011 at 12:46

    It was great coming top of the children. Very proud of myself.

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