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The energy cost and heart-rate response of trained and untrained subjects walking and running in shoes and boots

BRUCE H. JONES U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Natick, Massachusetts, 01760, U.S.A
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MICHAEL M. TONER U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Natick, Massachusetts, 01760, U.S.A
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WILLIAM L. DANIELS U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Natick, Massachusetts, 01760, U.S.A
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JOSEPH J. KNAPIK U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Natick, Massachusetts, 01760, U.S.A
Pages 895-902 | Received 11 Oct 1983, Accepted 25 Oct 1983, Published online: 31 May 2007

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