Variability in energy cost and walking gait during race walking in competitive race walkers

(Variability in energy cost and walking gait during race walking in competitive race walkers)

The aim of this study was to examine the variability of energy cost (Cw) and race walking gait after a 3-h walk at the competition pace in race walkers of the same performance level. The results indicated that competitive race walkers are able to maintain their walking gait with exercise duration apart from a systematic increase in energy cost. Moreover, in this form of locomotion the effect of fatigue on the gait variability seems to be an individual function of the race walk constraints and the constraints of the performer.
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Notations:endurance sports biological and medical sciences
Published in:Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
Language:English
Published: 1998
Online Access:https://journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/Fulltext/1998/09000/Variability_in_energy_cost_and_walking_gait_during.16.aspx
Volume:30
Issue:9
Pages:1451-1455
Document types:article
Level:advanced