This week’s blog is short and sweet, because what I accomplished was monumental in terms to my project as a whole, but in the end only took up a few lines of notebook paper. I realized as I was planning my treadmill test, in which I will run to exhaustion, that I would need someone to make some sort of objective observations on me as I ran, since I need to be using every ounce of energy and focus I have on the run. This will require very intense observation and some sort of scale to keep the data interpretable. A simple 1-10 scale would not suffice, for this I needed something that could not be left too much up to the person observing me, but also something that wouldn’t rely all on my own memory of the test. For this, I created an equation that I call the “Exertion Ratio Formula”. I have yet to put the finishing touches on it, but with what I know for now, it is perfect. The “Exertion Ratio Formula” is as follows:
ER= [HR(7/10xP)x(8/10xO/3)] / (MHR x 25)
HR= Instant HR
P= Perceived effort (0-25) (Weighted at 7/10, as modern physiology believes that when the human body is as the point of “exhaustion” it has between 20-40% more to give)
O= Observed effort (0-25) (Weighted at 8/10, as to not give observation too much power, being my observers are not professionals)
MHR= Max Heart Rate (Constant, my MHR ever recorded was 210)
1-25= Scale for exertion ratio, 1 being “at rest” and 25 being “dead or near death”
I will write in my next blog the factors that will go into the observers’ observations on my performance, also to keep it objective. This ratio compares my instant fatigue at any given point (Every quarter mile of the test) to my maximum exertion which, theoretically, so long as the law of homeostasis stays true, is impossible to reach. Thanks for tuning in! Next week we will be attacking some different athletes and finishing up the scalars to be used in my “Exertion Ratio Formula”.
ER= [HR(7/10xP)x(8/10xO/3)] / (MHR x 25)
HR= Instant HR
P= Perceived effort (0-25) (Weighted at 7/10, as modern physiology believes that when the human body is as the point of “exhaustion” it has between 20-40% more to give)
O= Observed effort (0-25) (Weighted at 8/10, as to not give observation too much power, being my observers are not professionals)
MHR= Max Heart Rate (Constant, my MHR ever recorded was 210)
1-25= Scale for exertion ratio, 1 being “at rest” and 25 being “dead or near death”
I will write in my next blog the factors that will go into the observers’ observations on my performance, also to keep it objective. This ratio compares my instant fatigue at any given point (Every quarter mile of the test) to my maximum exertion which, theoretically, so long as the law of homeostasis stays true, is impossible to reach. Thanks for tuning in! Next week we will be attacking some different athletes and finishing up the scalars to be used in my “Exertion Ratio Formula”.
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