EFFECTS OF A 12-WEEK AEROBIC TRAINING PROGRAM UTILIZING KANGOO JUMPS???
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Abstract
Kangoo Jumps™ are a boot with a similar appearance to roller blade boots, with a cantilever spring system on the bottom as opposed to wheels. Kangoo Jumps™ are designed to dissipate the impact forces experienced through the ankles, knees, hips and back during running. PURPOSE To investigate whether the use of Kangoo Jumps™ provides a greater cardiovascular improvement, with fewer injuries, when compared to conventional runners in a walk/run program over a twelve-week period. METHODS A group of thirteen subjects completed a 12-week training program, consisting of 3 sessions per week, using normal running shoes (NG) (age: 28.8 ± 4.7; 75.1±25.2kg), and twelve participants using Kangoo Jumps™ (KG) (age: 25.4± 5.3; 67.4± 18.0kg), completed the same 12 week program. Peak oxygen uptake (VO2 peak) was measured pre and post training program, using a continuous treadmill protocol. All data were analyzed using ANCOVA (α = 0.05), with age being co varied; injury rates were analyzed with Chi-square 2X2 table (α = 0.05). RESULTS VO2 peak significantly increased in the KG (7.8 ± 3.5 mL/kg/min) compared with NG (1.3 ± 2.8 mL/kg/min), (p < 0.05). NG also had a significantly greater incidence of lower leg injuries when compared to KG (χ2 (1)= 6.7, p < 0.05). The NG suffered 42.8% greater lower leg injuries, which required a minimum of one-week rest from running. CONLUSION Training with Kangoo Jumps™ provides an effective means of improving aerobic capacity, while reducing the rate of injury when compared to training with normal running shoes. Supported by Jump Canada Inc.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".