Open AccessStep Accumulation per Minute Epoch Is Not the Same as Cadence for Free-Living Adults
Author(s) -
Philippa M. Dall,
Paul McCrorie,
Malcolm Granat,
Ben Stansfield
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
medicine and science in sports and exercise
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.703
H-Index - 224
eISSN - 1530-0315
pISSN - 0195-9131
DOI - 10.1249/mss.0b013e3182955780
Subject(s) - cadence , duration (music) , mathematics , medicine , physical medicine and rehabilitation , physics , acoustics
The term cadence has been used interchangeably to describe both the rate of stepping and the number of steps in a minute epoch. This is only strictly true if walking is continuous within that epoch. This study directly compared these two outcomes in minute epochs of data from free-living adults to assess the scale of any difference between them.