A Conversion Table For Running On Lower Body Positive Pressure (LBPP) Treadmills

Physiological and Biomechanical Responses to Running on Lower Body Positive Pressure Treadmills in Healthy Populations

“…Thus, it is not surprising that, as BW Set is reduced within a given speed, _ VO 2 demand is decreased, and thus, HR and ventilation are also reduced. Kline et al [27] reported that the proportion of metabolic demand to BW Set was found to be near equivalent for 70-90 % BW Set ; however, at the extreme ends, the proportion of metabolic demand differed significantly from the proportion of BW Set . Thus, individuals training on an LBPPT with the goal of achieving a specific metabolic stimulus while unweighted may need to increase the treadmill speed or incline to achieve the desired overall metabolic stimulus, and it is even possible to achieve _ VO 2max at reduced BW Set .…”

“…Eight studies [16,20,22,23,[27][28][29][30] met the inclusion criteria for evaluation of metabolic parameters. All studies that examined _ VO 2 and HR during submaximal running found these parameters to decrease with unweighting.…”

“…Two studies [27,28] provided sufficient _ VO 2 data in tabular format, and we obtained tabular data from one published study directly from the author [22]. …”

“…Through evaluating the available data, we determined that three studies [22,27,28] could be used to develop an equation to predict _ VO 2 based on running speed and BW Set (Eq. 1).…”

Effects of unweighting and speed on in-shoe regional loading during running on a lower body positive pressure treadmill

“…6). Though LBPPT unweighting does reduce metabolic stimulus (Kline et al, 2015;Raffalt et al, 2013), higher speed running may be more neuromechanically equivalent to that experienced during training, and thus, LBPPT has potential to allow injured athletes to maintain their typical training structure through rehabilitation.…”