Treadmill Adaptation and Verification of Self-Selected Walking Speed |
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| Authors: | Paulo S Roberto Amorim Andrew Hills Nuala Byrne |
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| Institution: | 1. Physical Education Department , Vi?osa Federal University, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation at Queensland University of Technology;2. Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation , Queensland University of Technology |
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| Abstract: | Abstract Eighty-two male college students were divided into three equal-size groups for the purpose of testing the transfer effects between motor skills judged similar in perceptual components but different in motor components. Criterion measures of gross movement ability and static balance were analyzed and practice tasks similar to these criterion measures in perceptual components but different in motor components were developed. All subjects were pretested on the criterion measures, after which groups 1 and 2 practiced 3 min. per day for 28 days on the practice tasks while group 3 performed unrelated isometric exercises. On the post-test, the experimental groups were found to be significantly superior to the control group on gross movement accuracy and static balance. It was implied that the transfer resulted from the similarity in perceptual components of the two motor skills, and that perceptual abilities were subject to improvement through practice. |
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| Keywords: | preferred walking pace reproducibility treadmill accommodation younger |
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