Influences of body composition upon the relative metabolic and cardiovascular demands of load-carriage

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 380-384

  Lyons, Jason ^a   Allsopp, Adrian ^a   Bilzon, James ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF NAVAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Absolute VO2max; Body composition; Cardiovascular demand; Fitness tests; Lean body mass dead mass ratio; Load carriage; Metabolic demand; Occupational relevance

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; AEROBIC CAPACITY; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; CALORIMETRY; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; LOAD CARRYING CAPACITY; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; METABOLIC REGULATION; MUSCLE MASS; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUNNING; STATISTICAL MODEL; STEADY STATE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; TREADMILL EXERCISE; VELOCITY; VOLUNTEER; WALKING;

ADULT; BODY COMPOSITION; ENERGY METABOLISM; EXERCISE TEST; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; WEIGHT-BEARING; WORK CAPACITY EVALUATION;

EID: 23844551035     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqi087     Document Type: Article

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