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Researchers at Nevada State University have discovered a surprising truth about the most efficient way to travel on two legs.
If you have two legs, there are a variety of ways you can get around. Walking, running, leaping, hopping, skipping, prancing, powerwalking, heck, even grape-vining. The list goes on and on. But what is the most efficient?
Not the fastest, but the most efficient: requiring of the least amount of energy to cover the most ground.
This was the question that began to plague Dr. Astrid Berglundson, a researcher in the Sports Medicine Program at Nevada State University after she heard that astronauts on the Apollo mission preferred skipping over all other means of getting around on the moon.
So she took careful measurements of dozens of subjects on treadmills. And what she found may surprise you.
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If you have two legs, there are a variety of ways you can get around. Walking, running, leaping, hopping, skipping, prancing, powerwalking, heck, even grape-vining. The list goes on and on. But what is the most efficient?
Not the fastest, but the most efficient: requiring of the least amount of energy to cover the most ground.
This was the question that began to plague Dr. Astrid Berglundson, a researcher in the Sports Medicine Program at Nevada State University after she heard that astronauts on the Apollo mission preferred skipping over all other means of getting around on the moon.
So she took careful measurements of dozens of subjects on treadmills. And what she found may surprise you.
More...