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Why do we transition from walking to running? Energy cost and lower leg muscle activity before and after gait transition under body weight support.
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- Behavioural energetics in human locomotion: how energy use influences how we move.The Journal of experimental biology · 2025Review
- Do speed amplitude and period affect gait variability and step followability under sinusoidal speed changing conditions?Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Article
- Alterations in step frequency and muscle activities using body weight support influence the ventilatory response to sinusoidal walking in humans.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- The role of external power demand on the choice of technique in classic cross-country skiing.PloS one · 2023Article
- The interplay between gastrocnemius medialis force-length and force-velocity potentials, cumulative EMG activity and energy cost at speeds above and below the walk to run transition speed.Experimental physiology · 2023Article
- Economical and preferred walking speed using body weight support apparatus with a spring-like characteristics.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2021Article
- Steep (30°) uphill walking vs. running: COM movements, stride kinematics, and leg muscle excitations.European journal of applied physiology · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundMinimization of the energetic cost of transport (CoT) has been suggested for the walk-run transition in human locomotion. More recent literature argues that lower leg muscle activities are the potential triggers of the walk-run transition. We examined both metabolic and muscular aspects for explaining walk-run transition under body weight support (BWS; supported 30% of body weight) and normal walking (NW), because the BWS can reduce both leg muscle activity and metabolic rate.
methodsThirteen healthy young males participated in this study. The energetically optimal transition speed (EOTS) was determined as the intersection between linear CoT and speed relationship in running and quadratic CoT-speed relationship in walking under BWS and NW conditions. Preferred transition speed (PTS) was determined during constant acceleration protocol (velocity ramp protocol at 0.00463 m·s
resultsThe EOTS was significantly faster than the PTS under both conditions, and both were faster under BWS than in NW. In both conditions, MPF decreased after the walk-run transition in the dorsiflexor and the combined plantar flexor activities, especially the DISCUSSION: The walk-run transition is not triggered solely by the minimization of whole-body energy expenditure. Walk-run transition is associated with reduced TA and
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