If we’re walking faster and faster, the point at which we spontaneously switch from walking to running coincides with the point at which it would become more energy-consuming to walk than run.

snek_boi@lemmy.ml · 3 days ago

If we’re walking faster and faster, the point at which we spontaneously switch from walking to running coincides with the point at which it would become more energy-consuming to walk than run.

moody@lemmings.world · 3 days ago

They can tell from the bones where the muscles attached, and what movements they made. They could piece together an animal’s walking gait just from that.

Looking only at a dead person’s bones, one could deduce what sports they practiced, for example.

If we’re walking faster and faster, the point at which we spontaneously switch from walking to running coincides with the point at which it would become more energy-consuming to walk than run.

If we’re walking faster and faster, the point at which we spontaneously switch from walking to running coincides with the point at which it would become more energy-consuming to walk than run.

Walking or running: for the same distance, which consumes more energy?