The effect of weighted vest walking on metabolic responses and ground reaction forces

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 746-752

  Puthoff, Michael L ^a,b   Darter, Benjamin J ^a   Nielsen, David H ^a   Yack, H John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b ST AMBROSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerobic training; Exercise; Gait; Osteoporosis; Resistance training

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AEROBIC EXERCISE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BONE METASTASIS; CLOTHING; EXERCISE; EXERCISE INTENSITY; FEMALE; GAIT; GROUND REACTION FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OSTEOPOROSIS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; TRAINING; UNITED STATES; WALKING; WALKING SPEED; WEIGHT BEARING; WEIGHTED VEST;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CLOTHING; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; WALKING; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 33645999060     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/01.mss.0000210198.79705.19     Document Type: Article

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