PMID- 25448638
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20150630
LR  - 20191210
IS  - 1879-2219 (Electronic)
IS  - 0966-6362 (Linking)
VI  - 41
IP  - 1
DP  - 2015 Jan
TI  - The effects of specific athletic training on path selection while running.
PG  - 323-5
LID - S0966-6362(14)00717-6 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2014.09.018 [doi]
AB  - Apertures that are smaller than 1.3 times the shoulder width (SW) require that 
      individuals make an adjustment to their normal walking behavior [6]. When given a 
      choice, individuals will choose to avoid apertures smaller than this ratio, 
      rather than rotate their shoulders and walk through [7]. Research has yet to 
      determine whether this choice in path selection can be influenced by the speed at 
      which one approaches the aperture or by experience/training. Therefore, the 
      current study investigated whether approach speed and/or specific athletic 
      training influences the choice in path selection. Specifically-trained athletes 
      (n=6) and non-trained (n=6) young adults ran toward a visible goal placed at the 
      end of the path and avoided an aperture (created by two poles) placed along the 
      midline of the path. The separation between the poles ranged between 0.6 and 1.8 
      times each participant's SW, in increments of 0.2. Participants were permitted to 
      either run through or around the aperture to get to the end goal. Results 
      demonstrated that regardless of training experience, participants ran around 
      apertures smaller than 1.4x the SW and ran through apertures larger than this 
      ratio. Increased approach speed (i.e., running) therefore appears to elicit 
      similar aperture crossing behaviors as walking [2,3,6,7]. Additionally, when 
      faced with the choice to run around or to run through apertures, individuals who 
      are specifically-training to run through small spaces chose similar paths as 
      individuals who are not trained to do so. Therefore, specific training does not 
      appear to influence voluntary path selection.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
FAU - Hackney, Amy L
AU  - Hackney AL
AD  - Department of Kinesiology, University of Waterloo, ON, Canada.
FAU - Zakoor, Allison
AU  - Zakoor A
AD  - Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, Wilfrid Laurier University, ON, 
      Canada.
FAU - Cinelli, Michael E
AU  - Cinelli ME
AD  - Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, Wilfrid Laurier University, ON, 
      Canada. Electronic address: mcinelli@wlu.ca.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20141002
PL  - England
TA  - Gait Posture
JT  - Gait & posture
JID - 9416830
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - *Athletes
MH  - Biomechanical Phenomena
MH  - Choice Behavior
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Judgment/physiology
MH  - Male
MH  - Practice, Psychological
MH  - *Psychomotor Performance/physiology
MH  - Running/*physiology
MH  - Shoulder Joint/physiology
MH  - Space Perception/*physiology
MH  - Task Performance and Analysis
MH  - Young Adult
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Action-scaled
OT  - Aperture crossing
OT  - Athletic training
OT  - Path selection
EDAT- 2014/12/03 06:00
MHDA- 2015/07/01 06:00
CRDT- 2014/12/03 06:00
PHST- 2014/02/27 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2014/09/15 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2014/09/20 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2014/12/03 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2014/12/03 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2015/07/01 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0966-6362(14)00717-6 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2014.09.018 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Gait Posture. 2015 Jan;41(1):323-5. doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2014.09.018. Epub 
      2014 Oct 2.