Partitioning the metabolic cost of human running: A task-by-task approach

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1084-1098

  Arellano, Christopher J ^a   Kram, Rodger ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; BODY WEIGHT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; RUNNING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME;

BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; BODY WEIGHT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; RUNNING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84905681299     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icu033     Document Type: Conference Paper

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