Predicting walking METs and energy expenditure from speed or accelerometry

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1216-1223

  Brooks, Anthony G ^a   Gunn, Simon M ^a   Withers, Robert T ^a   Gore, Christopher J ^b   Plummer, John L ^c  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b South Australian Sports Institute   (Australia)

^c FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

CSA; MTI; Self paced; Velocity

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER; ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; EXERCISE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; VALIDATION PROCESS; VELOCITY; WALKING;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; WALKING;

EID: 22144449943     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/01.mss.0000170074.19649.0e     Document Type: Article

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