Take a top level track sprinter. They produce likely over 2000 watts for a couple seconds. But is that their true power output, when you closely analyze it down to the fractions of a second?
Nope!
Using the data shown from Metrigear on this link, you can see that true peak watts are about double the actual displayed watts. Well, we kind of already knew that.
http://www.metrigear.com/2010/02/26/the-cyclist-as-a-two-cylinder-two-stroke-engine/
But it's still cool to think that for a fraction of a second, one leg is producing ~4000 watts. Pretty sick stuff.
I remember reading about olympic weight lifters producing upwards of 5000watts during the fastest portion of a clean. And that's with using 100% of both legs (and body of course).
I SOOOOO want to get a MetriGear. I'm going to go crazy over analyzing with that
Nope!
Using the data shown from Metrigear on this link, you can see that true peak watts are about double the actual displayed watts. Well, we kind of already knew that.
http://www.metrigear.com/2010/02/26/the-cyclist-as-a-two-cylinder-two-stroke-engine/
But it's still cool to think that for a fraction of a second, one leg is producing ~4000 watts. Pretty sick stuff.
I remember reading about olympic weight lifters producing upwards of 5000watts during the fastest portion of a clean. And that's with using 100% of both legs (and body of course).
I SOOOOO want to get a MetriGear. I'm going to go crazy over analyzing with that