Estimating braking and propulsion forces during overground running in and out of the lab.

ABSTRACT: Accurately estimating kinetic metrics, such as braking and propulsion forces, in real-world running environments enhances our understanding of performance, fatigue, and injury. Wearable inertial measurement units (IMUs) offer a potential solution to estimate kinetic metrics outside the lab when combined with machine learning. However, current IMU-based kinetic estimation models are trained and evaluated within a single environment, often on lab treadmills. The transferability of these treadmill-trained models during overground running in and out of the lab is underexplored, and the individualization and validation of such models remain a challenge. Toward bridging this gap, we trained a generalized model on treadmill data of 15 recreational runners and evaluated braking and propulsion forc

SUBMITTER: Baker LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12410772 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature