How to maintain the same level of healthy physical activity when moving from a mountain bike to an electric mountain bike – a case study

The parameters measured during the tests were, heart rate (HR), cycling speed (CS), power output (PO), pedaling cadence (PC), slope (SLP), rate of perceived exertion (RPE), TRaining IMPulse (TRIMP) and Training Stress Score (TSS).A Garmin Edge 1030 bicycle counter (Cardiosport, Waterlooville, Hampshire, UK), paired with a hub-mounted and properly calibrated Garmin Bluetooth Ant+2 speed sensor, was used to measure cycling speed (CS), slope (SLP), distance and altitude. A Garmin HRM Pro sensor worn on the subject's chest, paired with the Garmin Edge 1030 bicycle counter, was used to measure physical exertion as measured by heart rate (HR). A VCT power meter Garmin Vector paired with the Garmin Edge 1030 bicycle counter was used to measure power output (PO) and pedaling cadence (PC).The data recorded after each ride was saved in the Garmin Connect software cloud, from where it was further exported to a file with a “.csv" extension. This file contained detailed ride information with a 1-second recording interval and was analyzed within a MS Excel spreadsheet in order to calculate TRIMP (Edwards, 1994), TSS (Allen et al., 2019) and normalized power (NP) (Allen et al., 2019).