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[pct-l] Hiking pole study



At 04:10 PM 1/25/2001 -0800, Jim Serio wrote:
>At 09:11 PM 1/24/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>>Howdy listers,
>>Just published in the American College of Sports Medicine journal
>>"Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise".  I saw the article in the
>>Riverside Press Enterprise and haven't been able to find it (for free)
>>on the web. Exercise physiologist Christopher Knight tested 5 men and 5
>>women on a treadmill set at 5% grade carrying 30% of their body weight.
>
>I don't put a lot of faith in treadmill exercise.

I should state that I was contradicting the finding of this study that poles
are "useless". Treadmills are great fat burners.

Jim