Effect of Cycling on a Stationary Bike While Performing Assembly Tasks on Human Physiology and Performance Parameters.

Atef M Ghaleb,Adham E Ragab,Tamer M Khalaf,Ahmed Badwelan,Mohamed Z Ramadan

doi:10.3390/ijerph17051761

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https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17051761

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Abstract

Objective: This study evaluated participants’ ability to assemble a computer keyboard while at a cycling workstation. Depending on task completion time, error percentage, and workload based on subjective workload ratings, subjective body discomfort, electroencephalography (EEG) and electrocardiographic (ECG) signals, human performances were compared at four different cycling conditions: no cycling, low level cycling (15 km/h), preferred level cycling, and high level cycling (25 km/h). Method: The experiment consisted of 16 participants. Each participant performed the test four times (each cycling condition) on different days. Results: The repeated measure test showed that the alpha and beta EEG signals were high during session times (post) when compared with session times (pre). Moreover, the mean interbeat (R-R) interval decreased after the participants performed the assembly while pedaling, possibly due to the physical effort of cycling. Conclusions: Pedaling had no significant effect on body discomfort ratings, task errors, or completion time.

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Regular exercise contributes to managing depression, improving mental health, and preventing chronic diseases and premature death [1,2]
The EEG power was measured at frontal regions F3 and F4 and analyzed using two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA)
The repeated design results of the EEG data are listed in Table 3 which reveals that the overall significance is from the session times

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Regular exercise contributes to managing depression, improving mental health, and preventing chronic diseases and premature death [1,2]. The minimum amount of time adults should spend on moderate to high-intensity physical activities is about 30 min/day [5]. Despite these facts, most people find it difficult to devote time to regular exercise due to typically long workdays that consume 8 to 9 h/d leaving little time for regular leisure-time exercises [6]. Increased body mass, decreased physical and work efficiency, increased risk of health problems, increased rates of occupational injuries, and increased mortality have been observed in adults [9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16]

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