💦 Who does not love a good sprint on the Assault bike…
👀 In this post we explain some of the reasons why sprinting expends disproportionally more kcals than cruising. Hence, why it is a good idea to sprint if the goal is to burn X amount of kcals as quick as possible.
👉 Next, we also wanted to answer the burning question whether an Echo Bike is ‘harder’ in terms of burning a given amount of kcals per minute than an Assault bike. Because logically, this does not make sense. 400 W on an Echo should burn exactly the same amount of kcals/min as 400 W on an Assault bike. Because physics…
1W is 1 J/s and 1J is 0.00024 kcal.
🔥 So, is any difference? See last slide. Yes, it seems that on the assault bike you get slightly higher Kcal / s for a given RPM than on the echo. At low RPMs this will not make much of a difference, but when you are sprinting it does. The kcals will tick away slower on the echo, although you are producing the same amount of energy. See last slide.
❓ Best test would be to put a power meter on both machines and compare the actually produced watts to the watts displayed on the screen. Has anyone of our followers done this? Let us know.
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Souces: Reddit: angrytongan, www.assaultfitness.com
and google doc: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GRdMN4jv2MpNTnJIlSRL3hSRZiKGM6DybyNHpXrR_z8/edit#gid=180105326
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