Postural adjustments and perceptual responses of Nordic running: concurrent effects of poles and irregular terrain.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

In the natural environment, humans must continuously negotiate irregular and unpredictable terrain. Recently, the poles have been extensively used during trial running events. However, we know little about how humans adjust posture and bilateral coordination to use poles in irregular terrain. Here, we compared kinematics, bilateral coordination and perceptual responses between regular (compact dust) and irregular terrain (medium-length grass) during running at preferred speed with and without poles.

Methods

In this transversal observational study, thirteen young healthy adults (8 men; mean ± SD; age 29.1 ± 8.0 years, body mass 76.8 ± 11.4 kg; height 1.75 ± 0.08 m) were evaluated during running at a self-selected comfortable speed with and without poles on regular and

SUBMITTER: Ivaniski-Mello A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11129971 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature