ArticleEuropean journal of applied physiology2021
Metabolic cost in healthy fit older adults and young adults during overground and treadmill walking.
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- The Ramp protocol: Uncovering individual differences in walking to an auditory beat using TeensyStep.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Role of Walking Energetics and Perceived Fatigability Differs by Gait Speed: The Study of Muscle, Mobility and Aging (SOMMA).The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2024Article
- Increased Metabolic Demand During Outside Walking in Darkness With No Vision or With Visual Aid.Military medicine · 2023Article
- Onset of cardiovascular drift during progressive heat stress in young adults (PSU HEAT project).Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2023Article
- Comparative study of young-old and old-old people using functional evaluation, gait characteristics, and cardiopulmonary metabolic energy consumption.BMC geriatrics · 2023Observational
- The elevated metabolic cost of walking at preferred speeds of healthy elderly on treadmills compared to overground is not related to increased self-reported anxiety.European journal of applied physiology · 2023Article
- Relatively minor influence of individual characteristics on critical wet-bulb globe temperature (WBGT) limits during light activity in young adults (PSU HEAT Project).Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2023Article
- Heat stress vulnerability and critical environmental limits for older adults.Communications earth & environment · 2023Article
- Adverse heat-health outcomes and critical environmental limits (Pennsylvania State University Human Environmental Age Thresholds project).American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2023Review
- Core temperature responses to compensable versus uncompensable heat stress in young adults (PSU HEAT Project).Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2022Article
- Critical environmental limits for young, healthy adults (PSU HEAT Project).Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2022Article
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Abstract
purposeThe purpose of this study was to determine whether net metabolic cost of walking is affected by age per se.
methodsWe selected 10 healthy, active older adults (mean age 75 years) and 10 young adults (mean age 26 years), and determined their preferred overground walking speed. On the same day, in a morning and afternoon session, we had them walk at that speed overground and on a treadmill while we measured oxygen consumption rate. From the latter we subtracted the rate in sitting and calculated net metabolic cost.
resultsAnthropometrics were not different between the groups nor was preferred walking speed (1.27 m s
conclusionFirst, there is no effect of age per se on metabolic cost of overground walking. Second, older adults tend to have higher metabolic cost of walking on a treadmill than walking overground at preferred speed, and adaptation may take a long time. The commonly reported age-related elevation of metabolic cost of walking may be due to confounding factors causing preferred walking speed to be lower in older adults, and/or due to older adults reacting differently to treadmill walking than young adults.
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