Cardiac responses under diverse combinations of marching speed and backpack load

Title: Cardiac responses under diverse combinations of marching speed and backpack load
Creator: Scott, Patricia A, Christie, Candice J
Date: 2000
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:6755
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1009457
Description: Thirty seasoned foot-soldiers were exposed to a total of 16 combinations of marching speed and backpack load, each soldier experiencing 8 of the combinations between 3.5km.h-1 with a 20kg load and 6.5km.h-1 with a 65kg load. Detailed physiological analyses were conducted, of which the heart rate responses are reported here. Steady state was achieved with all combinations under 5.5km.h-1 speed and 35kg load. Excessively elevated heart rates were elicited by all loads over 20kg at 6.5km.h-1 marching speed; by loads over 35kg at 5.5km.h-1 marching speed and by the 65kg load even at 4.5km.h-1 marching speed.
Format: 12 pages, pdf
Language: English
Relation: Scott, P.A. and Christie, C.J. (2000) Cardiac responses under diverse combinations of marching speed and backpack load. Ergonomics SA : Journal of the Ergonomics Society of South Africa, 12 (1). pp. 49-60.

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Christie, Candice Jo-Anne‏ (Assoc Prof)

RU Department of Human Kinetics and Ergonomics

SDG 03. Good Health and Well-Being

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