Outdoor Walking Speeds of Apparently Healthy Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Walking outdoors can be used by many individuals to meet public health guidelines for moderate-to-vigorous-intensity physical activity. The speed at which adults walk may be a proxy for intensity. Traditional estimates of indoor walking speed are unlikely to reflect self-selected usual or other instructed paces of outdoor walking speed.

Objective

To inform estimates of pace-based walking speed of apparently healthy adults in outdoor settings.

Methods

We searched four electronic databases for articles published in English between January 1970 and March 2019. Studies that reported walking speed (m/s), cadence (steps/min), or intensity (mL/kg/min) of ambulatory, apparently healthy, and community-dwelling adults (> 18 years) were included. Walking speed categor

SUBMITTER: Murtagh EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7806575 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature