Metabolic effects of soldier performance on a simulated graded road march while wearing two functionally equivalent military ensembles

Military Medicine

Volumn 172, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 596-602

  Crowder, Todd A ^a   Beekley, Matthew D ^a   Sturdivant, Rodney X ^a   Johnson, Christopher A ^b   Lumpkin, Angela ^c  

^a UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY   (United States)

^b 196th Infantry Brigade ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (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; MILITARY MEDICINE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; SIMULATION; SOLDIER; WALKING; WEIGHT BEARING;

EID: 34250330381     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.172.6.596     Document Type: Article

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