Do Poles Improve Performance in Trail Running with Nicola Giovanelli PhD | KoopCast Episode 173
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The Cost of Transport and Oxygen Savings of Poles
In really long races oxygen is not as much of a premium or the rate of oxygen consumption is not really at a premium you're running it your locomoting at such a low intensity that even if the cost of transport were two or three percent higher using poles over a hundred kilometers would still save money. "When when you use poles and uh when athletes that participated in our studies uh use poles they always add lower rate of perceived exertion so it is probably more muscular," he says. The difference maybe you don't do the difference during uphill but you can be faster downy lowering the runnable sections of the race.
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