Effects of heavy load carriage during constant-speed, simulated, road marching

Military Medicine

Volumn 172, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 592-595

  Beekley, Matthew D ^a   Alt, Jonathan ^a   Buckley, Clyde M ^a   Duffey, Michael ^a   Crowder, Todd A ^a  

^a UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; LUNG VENTILATION; MALE; MOTIVATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; SIMULATION; SOLDIER; TREADMILL; WALKING; WEIGHT BEARING;

EID: 34250310063     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.172.6.592     Document Type: Article

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