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Expectations for average Power, Calories, and Distance
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Indoor cycling participants have a wide range of experience and abilities; therefore, values
for AVERAGE POWER achieved, Calories accrued, and distance accrued in a class will vary
widely among participants.
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Riding an indoor cycling bike with a fixed gear and no outside environmental influences
is not the same as riding a bicycle outdoors that moves under the rider. Therefore, values
for AVERAGE POWER and distance should not be compared to outdoor riding; rather they
should be used as standalone performance parameters for training on a Schwinn indoor
bike equipped with an Echelon2G console and power sensor.
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Calories accrued on the Echelon2G are an accurate measure of the amount of the total
energy a participant puts into the cranks during an indoor cycling class, regardless of their
gender, height, weight, resting metabolic rate (RMR), and level of fitness. The Echelon2G
Calorie tally is not the same as the Calorie tally obtained from a heart rate monitor because
the Echelon2G only reports work done on the bike.
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Indoor cycling participants that want to track the Calories they burn during a workout on
the bike are encouraged to use a reputable, commercial heart rate monitor with a watch
and/or smart phone app to determine and track Caloric expenditure. Most top brands of
heart rate monitors and smart phone apps allow users to enter personal data that enables
the heart rate monitor to more accurately estimate their Calories burned.
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Participants that are interested in using the Echelon2G for serious cycling training are
encouraged to establish their functional threshold power (FTP) with the Echelon2G, and
establish training zones based on their Echelon2G FTP, just as outdoor riders would estab-
lish their FTP and training zones for different power meters. Indoor training zones with
the Echelon2G will typically be different than outdoor training zones in terms of ranges of
power; however, the adaptations of training in the indoor training zones will be the same
as training outdoors in outdoor training zones.
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POWER ADJUST can be used to boost the amount of power displayed on the console by
the percentage entered into the POWER ADJUST settings.
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While the Echelon2G’s metrics are most accurate at 0%, there may cases where studios
wish to boost the amount of power their riders see.
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POWER ADJUST settings will also boost the Calorie and distance accrued by the same per-
centage as power.
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It is normal that a level of power that is very difficult for some participants to maintain is
very easy for other participants.
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Calories and distance on the Echelon2G are calculated from power, and since it is normal to
have a widely varying range of average power values in a class, it is also normal that values
for Calories and distance accrued will also vary widely.
