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Energetic cost of walking with increased step variability
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Step-to-step variability is known to increase walking costs.
“Step-to-step variability is known to increase walking costs (O'Connor, Xu, & Kuo, 2012), and thus is another factor that could make walking on natural terrains such as those in forests more energetically expensive.”
From Forest terrains influence walking kinematics among indigenous Tsimane of the Bolivian Amazon (2022) · cites this paper as O'Connor, Xu, & Kuo, 2012
Variability in stride length and timing and fluctuations in speed have been reported to affect metabolic cost, perhaps due to the effort of varying gait.
“Variability in stride length and timing [37] and fluctuations in speed [24] have been reported to affect metabolic cost, perhaps due to the effort of varying gait.”
From Human walking in the real world: interactions between terrain type, gait parameters, and energy expenditure (2021) · cites this paper as [37]
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- Authors
- O’Connor, S. M., Xu, H. Z., & Kuo, A. D.
- Venue
- Gait & Posture
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2012-05
- Volume
- 36
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 102-107
- ISSN
- 0966-6362
- PMC
- PMC3372656
- Cited by
- 163
- References
- 0
- Language
- en
- Funders
- Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant
- NIH DC6466
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