Metabolic, cardiovascular, neuromuscular and perceptual responses to repeated military‐specific load carriage treadmill simulations.
Bouts of military load carriage are rarely completed in isolation; however, limited research has investigated the physiological responses to repeated load carriage tasks. Twelve civilian men (age, 28 ± 8 years; stature, 185.6 ± 5.8 cm; body mass 84.3 ± 11.1 kg and maximal oxygen uptake, 51.5 ± 6.4 m...
| Publicado en: | European Journal of Sport Science Vol. 24; no. 8; pp. 1110 - 1120 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Aug2024
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