Speed, gradient and workrate in uphill running

Speed, gradient and workrate in uphill running

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Article ID: iaor19951742
Country: United Kingdom
Volume: 46
Issue: 1
Start Page Number: 43
End Page Number: 49
Publication Date: Jan 1995
Journal: Journal of the Operational Research Society
Authors: , ,
Keywords: statistics: experiment
Abstract:

A series of treadmill experiments is described concerned with a runner’s speed, heart-rate and the gradient. Together with the results of similar experiments, some of them carried out over 50 years ago, the results suggest that for a given heart-rate, log(speed) is linearly related to gradient, and that for a given gradient, heart-rate is linearly related to speed. The result suggest: (1) that athletes who run p% faster on the level will run p% faster up a slope, if they maintain the same heart-rate; (2) that athletes will use the same number of heart beats running up a hill of uniform slope no matter how fast or slowly they run; (3) that athletes should run directly up any slope of less than about 20° and try to zigzag up slopes greater than this.

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