Maximal Responses to Treadmill and Deep Water Running in High School Female Cross Country Runners |
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| Authors: | Nancy Kay Butts Mary Tucker Robert Smith |
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| Institution: | Human Performance Laboratory, Department of Physical Education , University of Wisconsin–La Crosse , USA |
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| Abstract: | Abstract Seven untrained, nonathletic women 19–42 years of age participated in a daily five-minute rope skipping program during a four-week period. As a result of this training program, there was a significant improvement in physical work capacity as judged by pulse response to a standardized submaximal work load, or by the estimated maximal oxygen uptake based upon the pulse response to submaximal ergometer work according to the Åstrand nomogram. It is suggested that rope skipping can be adopted as a simple method of improving the physical work capacity of a large segment of our population. |
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