Testing: Complete

The testing at the science festival has now been completed, with over 200 Wingate cycling tests being done, by people aged between 7 years and 70 years old. 

This was a great result, in terms of getting a large subject group in such a small space of time, and I´m  very grateful to everybody who took time out of their day at the festival to be part of the research.

The next stage of the process will take much longer than the data collection, but is equally, if not more important.  This stage is the data analysis.  This is the stage in which the data pertaining to power variables during the test, and changes in local muscle oxygen saturation, will be collated for each person.  I will then make comparisons between group means for adults and children of different ages, and also males and females.  The next stage is to look for trends within this grouped data, and see if they match trends seen in similar data which has previously been collcted by other researchers.  With such a large subject group, I hope we will see some interesting trends emerging.  I am also very keen to see if there are distinct differences in the oxygen saturation profile in the muscle for people who exercise very reguarly, compared with those people who do not.  There are a variety of statistical tests which can be used to assess whether the trends which are seen are significant or not.

So there is much to do, and as soon as there are some interesting results to show, I will post them up here, so you can see how the data is taking shape.

For now, I wish everybody a happy easter, and hope you all enjoy the sunshine,

Catherine