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Recumbent handbike set-up for sports performance

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posted on 2019-11-21, 14:50 authored by Ben Stone
Handcycling has become a popular recreational and sporting exercise modality for individuals with lower limb impairments. Literature has focussed on attachable-unit and touring handbikes as a form of mobility and recreation. Conversely, recumbent handcycling is an endurance sport, where athletes compete in time trial (TT) and road race disciplines lasting 20 to 140 minutes. Therefore, despite 20 years of handcycling research, very little is known about recumbent handbike configuration, physiology or biomechanics, which is critical for the development of sports performance. [Continues.]

Funding

EP/M507489/1

History

School

  • Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

Publisher

Loughborough University

Rights holder

© Benjamin Stone

Publication date

2019

Notes

A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of Loughborough University.

Language

  • en

Supervisor(s)

Vicky Tolfrey ; Barry Mason

Qualification name

  • PhD

Qualification level

  • Doctoral

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