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Uphill and Downhill Biomechanics with Wouter Hoogkamer PhD | Koopcast Episode 87

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Is There a Difference Between Uphill Running and Level Running?

The biggest takeaway from that is that I mean it's different right so for cycling it doesn't really necessarily matter if you're using all the power you put at the pedals to overcome air resistance or to go uphill however for running there's a huge difference between level running and uphill running. The downside of the study was we can't necessarily test that directly because if you for example start pulling people upwards when they run uphill you're changing a lot at the same time right. We did a lot of these experiments before for level running to find out how much is the cost of supporting your body weight versus how much is propelling yourself vs leg swing versus arm swing for uphill It's all there including

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