For those people who have taken part so far, there are now some updated results available for you to see. These results split both adults and children into age group categories, so you can compare your test performance with those people of a similar age to yourself.
One trend we're looking at is the change in peak power at different ages in childhood; this graph shows some results which look at this question:
We can see from this graph that the general trend (represented by the straight line) is that peak power increases throughout the years of childhood. These results are similar to many other studies which have looked at the changes in muscle strength during childhood, and are probably what everybody would have expected to see: as children grow older, their muscles begin to develop and they therefore are able to produce higher power. This is a great start, but there are still many things to look at from the data we've collected: rates of fatigue; differences between males and females; comparing children's power to adult's power; and also investigating the local muscle changes in oxygen saturation, and how these parameters change according to age.
With only one more day of testing, I'd just like to say a big thank you to everybody who has taken part so far; it was great to meet everybody, and see some fantastic efforts during the tests. It's been great to see so many people who are so active: cycling to work/school; playing a wide range of sports; taking part in marathons and triathlons - keep up the good work everybody!
Catherine
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