Each of five subjects performed a total of 25 cranking and walking tasks, 16 of which contained serial variation. The purpose was to test whether the caloric cost of a series of dynamic tasks performed sequentially could be predicted by summing the caloric cost of the individual tasks performed separately. The results indicate that, if work and recovery caloric values as measured by the integral method are considered for both sequential and separate tasks, such prediction is possible. However, when just the working caloric values as measured by the steady-state method are compared, such an equality cannot be assumed.
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