Professional paper
Estimation of energetic capacities of mountain routes of the Nature park Medvednica: a pilot study
Mario Kasović
; Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Kineziološki fakultet; Fakultet sportskih studija, Sveučilište Masaryk, Brno, Republika Češka; Triatlon klub Maksimir, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Marina Popijač
; Javna ustanova Park Prirode Medvednica, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Mladen Budinščak
; Javna ustanova Park Prirode Medvednica, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
The nature and open space lovers want to know a very important information regarding health benefits of hitchhiking different mountain routes. By knowing this information, they can plan time, volume and intensity towards their abilities and track and control physical fitness. The main aim of this study was to present the new protocol and to classify mountain routes of the Nature park Medvednica by using up to date functional and diagnostic methods to estimate energy capacities and to quantify the differences between the two most popular ones. The protocol to estimate energy capacities of each mountain route is consisted of laboratory and field bases testing. The parameters obtained from the laboratory testing will be used as referent values and starting point to differentiate between field based testing and energy capacities of each mountain route. In the present study, two sophisticated system of Quark CPET and METAMAX 3B were used. Results showed significant qualitative differences between mountain routes in the majority of parameters. The study showed the possibility of a new protocol to classify mountain routes by using new functional and diagnostic methods to estimate energy capacities. The results can be used in hitchhiking and add a significant value of health-benefits of the nature park Medvednica. The next level of this study will be discovering other southern routes of the mountain to get an overall picture and energy capacity estimation of mountain routes near the city of Zagreb.
Keywords
hitchhiking; energy estimation; Nature park Medvednica
Hrčak ID:
237554
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Publication date:
30.4.2020.
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