Start Date
11-12-2019 9:55 AM
Description
Long-distance running is the most widely participated in activity that helps people stay healthy in the world. My research explores whether or not retraining running gait has a positive effect on the body and performance in a 5-kilometer time trial. There is a significant amount of related research to this topic, but the niche this experiment would fill is the effect of retraining for the recreational runner under the analysis of performance and damage to the body (assessed via the size of the joint space using ultrasound). The experimental protocol dictates that participants will begin with their habitual heel-strike during a 5-kilometer time trial with ultrasound evaluation, follow a two-week retraining program to a forefoot-strike, take another time trial with ultrasound evaluation, and then after four weeks of training on the participants’ own, the participants come in for a final time trial and ultrasound evaluation. The expected results are a decrease in performance and increase in the joint space from the initial time trial to the second time trial and then an increase in performance and decrease in joint space from the first and second trial to the third trial.
Effects of Gait Retraining on Performance and the Body
Long-distance running is the most widely participated in activity that helps people stay healthy in the world. My research explores whether or not retraining running gait has a positive effect on the body and performance in a 5-kilometer time trial. There is a significant amount of related research to this topic, but the niche this experiment would fill is the effect of retraining for the recreational runner under the analysis of performance and damage to the body (assessed via the size of the joint space using ultrasound). The experimental protocol dictates that participants will begin with their habitual heel-strike during a 5-kilometer time trial with ultrasound evaluation, follow a two-week retraining program to a forefoot-strike, take another time trial with ultrasound evaluation, and then after four weeks of training on the participants’ own, the participants come in for a final time trial and ultrasound evaluation. The expected results are a decrease in performance and increase in the joint space from the initial time trial to the second time trial and then an increase in performance and decrease in joint space from the first and second trial to the third trial.
