BDN Health Website Runs Treadmill Study News
The Bangor Daily News health website highlighted a UMaine news release about researchers who have been comparing athletes’ performance on an underwater treadmill versus a traditional treadmill. The group, which included graduate students Philip Watson and Travis Bouchard and undergraduate Cassandra Mendonca, who received degrees in May 2012, along with professor Robert Lehnhard, had found there was no metabolic data quantifying how much exertion is involved with the underwater treadmill. Lehnhard said the treadmill fits well for rehabilitation patients, but doesn’t think it’s a tool one would use for intense conditioning.
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