Preferred transition speed between walking and running: Effects of training status

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1864-1870

  Rotstein, Arie ^a   Inbar, Omri ^a   Berginsky, Tatiana ^a   Meckel, Yoav ^a  

^a WINGATE INSTITUTE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Energetically optimal transition speed; Energy cost of locomotion; Heart rate; Oxygen consumption; Rate of preceived exertion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ENERGY COST; GAIT; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; RUNNING; TRAINING; WALKING SPEED;

ADULT; ENERGY METABOLISM; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; RUNNING; WALKING;

EID: 28044449692     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/01.mss.0000177217.12977.2f     Document Type: Article

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