November 1, 2001

Measuring Fitness in Healthy Older Adults: The Health ABC Long Distance Corridor Walk

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Providing a warm-up walk and using a target distance instead of time encouraged subjects to work closer to their maximum capacity. This low-cost alternative to treadmill testing can be used in research and clinical settings to assess fitness and help identify early functional decline in older adults.

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synapsesocial.com/papers/69dd4c47caee84831440c57f https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1532-5415.2001.4911247.x

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