Curious which would be more accurate. I did a 2.5hr ride today and I know the "3.6*avg P*(minutes/60)" yields approximate calories burned, but since normalized power is the stress your body deals with and adapts to, would that also be said for caloric burn? Todays NP was 262, average power was 228. The difference would be like 300 calories. Which means I'd be guilt-free for a beer later haha.
Going to a hypothetical extreme, if for a 1hr workout your NP was 300 and average pwr was 150 (as painful as that'd be), it's comparing 1080 calories burned to 540. It would make more sense to take average power in my head, since there would be a lot of super easy spinning in that scenario, which doesn't take much effort at all. But there might be some muscle-use-oxygen-fat-burning-science?
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Going to a hypothetical extreme, if for a 1hr workout your NP was 300 and average pwr was 150 (as painful as that'd be), it's comparing 1080 calories burned to 540. It would make more sense to take average power in my head, since there would be a lot of super easy spinning in that scenario, which doesn't take much effort at all. But there might be some muscle-use-oxygen-fat-burning-science?
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