Energy expenditure of walking and running: Comparison with prediction equations

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2128-2134

  Hall, Cameron ^a   Figueroa, Arturo ^a   Fernhall, Bo ^a   Kanaley, Jill A ^a,b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Caloric cost; Mode of exercise; Predicted energy cost; Prediction tables

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PREDICTION; RUNNING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREADMILL EXERCISE; WALKING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ENERGY METABOLISM; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFERENCE VALUES; RUNNING; WALKING;

EID: 10044229557     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/01.MSS.0000147584.87788.0E     Document Type: Article

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