Muscular and metabolic costs of uphill backpacking: Are hiking poles beneficial?

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 2093-2101

  Knight, C A ^a   Caldwell, G E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromyography; Hikingg; Kinematics; Load carriage; Oxygen Consumption; Trekking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; MUSCLE METABOLISM; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; SIMULATION; TREADMILL; WEIGHT BEARING;

EID: 0033664024     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005768-200012000-00020     Document Type: Article

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