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The Determinants of the Preferred Walking Speed in Individuals with Obesity
| العنوان: | The Determinants of the Preferred Walking Speed in Individuals with Obesity |
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| المؤلفون: | Aitor Fernández Menéndez, Mathieu Saubade, Didier Hans, Grégoire P. Millet, Davide Malatesta |
| المصدر: | Obesity Facts, Pp 1-11 (2019) |
| بيانات النشر: | Karger Publishers, 2019. |
| سنة النشر: | 2019 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Nutrition. Foods and food supply LCC:Nutritional diseases. Deficiency diseases |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Recovery, Energy cost, Perceived exertion, External work, Self-selected walking speed, Nutrition. Foods and food supply, TX341-641, Nutritional diseases. Deficiency diseases, RC620-627 |
| الوصف: | Background: The preferred walking speed (PWS), also known as the “spontaneous” or “self-selected” walking speed, is the speed normally used during daily living activities and may represent an appropriate exercise intensity for weight reduction programs aiming to enhance a more negative energy balance. Objectives: The aim of this study was to examine, simultaneously, the energetics, mechanics, and perceived exertion determinants of PWS in individuals with obesity. Methods: Twenty-three adults with obesity (age 32.7 ± 6.8 years, body mass index 33.6 ± 2.6 kg/m2) were recruited. The participants performed 10 min of treadmill familiarization, and PWS was determined. Each subject performed six 5-min walking trials (PWS 0.56, 0.83, 1.11, 1.39, and 1.67 m/s). Gas exchanges were collected and analyzed to obtain the gross energy cost of walking (GCw), rated perceived exertion (RPE) was measured using a 6–20 Borg scale, and the external mechanical work (Wext) and the fraction of mechanical energy recovered by the pendular mechanism (Recovery) were computed using an instrumented treadmill. Second-order least-squares regression was used to calculate the optimal walking speed (OWS) of each variable. Results: No significant difference was found between PWS (1.28 ± 0.13 m/s) and OWS for GCw (1.28 ± 0.10 m/s), RPE cost of walking (1.38 ± 0.14 m/s), and Recovery (1.48 ± 0.27 m/s; p > 0.06 for all), but the PWS was significantly faster than the OWS for Wext (0.98 ± 0.56 m/s; p < 0.02). Multiple regression (r = 0.72; p = 0.003) showed that ∼52% of the variance in PWS was explained by Recovery, Wext, and height. Conclusion: The main finding of this study was that obese adults may select their PWS in function of several competing demands, since this speed simultaneously minimizes pendular energy transduction, energy cost, and perceived exertion during walking. Moreover, recovery of mechanical work, external work, and height seem to be the major determinants of PWS in these individuals. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1662-4025 1662-4033 |
| Relation: | https://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/501968; https://doaj.org/toc/1662-4025; https://doaj.org/toc/1662-4033 |
| DOI: | 10.1159/000501968 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/dbfc608ebbe3466385684a66535291eb |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsdoj.bfc608ebbe3466385684a66535291eb |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 16624025 16624033 |
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| DOI: | 10.1159/000501968 |