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BIO Web of Conferences
Volume 1, 2011
The International Conference SKILLS 2011
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| Article Number | 00036 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/bioconf/20110100036 | |
| Published online | 15 December 2011 | |
Stabilizing the Locomotor-Respiratory Coupling Using a Metronome to Save Energy
Movement to Health (M2H) Laboratory, EuroMov, Montpellier-1 University, France
E-mail: charles.hoffmann@univ-montp1.fr
The Locomotor-Respiratory Coupling (LRC) is often evidenced by phase- or frequency-locking patterns. The model of the sine circle map is used here to characterize LRC. Several studies have suggested that a sound emitted by an external metronome can stabilize the LRC. Participants in our task were asked during a cycling exercise to synchronize either their respiration or their pedaling rate with an external auditory stimulus corresponding to their preferred respiratory and pedaling frequencies respectively. Our results showed a significant reduction in energy expenditure when participants breathed in sync with the auditory stimulation, but not accompanied by a change in the stabilization of LRC. A large within- as well as between-participants LRC variability, together with the spontaneous adoption of the most stable pace, contributes to explain this result.
© Owned by the authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2011
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