The Rockport Fitness Walking Test (RFWT), a maximal-paced 1-mile track walk, appears to satisfy several considerations deemed important in field tests that estimate...

How seniors perform on a simple walking test could predict their chances of getting ill or dying within the next five years, according to a study in the May 3 Journal of the...

...for predicting V|O.sub.2^max using a 1-mile walk protocol. This test, which has become known as the Rockport Fitness Walking Test (RFWT), was developed on a broad age range (30-69 years) of males and females who were heterogeneous in terms of aerobic...

Kids in special schools will be tested to find out if they can walk to school under a council's cash-cutting plans. Buses for 200 children in south London may be axed because Greenwich Council's transport budget is pounds 394,000 in the red. Liz Morris, who has a partially-sighted son Billy, four,

Just as automakers and apparel manufacturers have fled the stringent labor and environmental laws of developed countries to set up shop in the developing world, pharmaceutical companies have streamed across the border in pursuit of warm bodies for the testing of new experimental drugs. By 2006,

Drunken-driving suspects can refuse to try walking a straight line, but their refusal could be used against them in court, the state Supreme Court ruled yesterday. The 5-4 ruling reversed a Court of Appeals decision that a suspect's refusal to take a field sobriety test was protected by the Fifth

...cycle ergometer test, and the 2-km walking test. However, limited data exist on...cycle ergometer) and the estimated (walking test) VO^sub 2^max and walking performance...on a cycle ergometer. The 2-km walking test parameters were the walking time...

Encouraged 6-min Walking Test Indicates Maximum Sustainable Exercise...severe COPD, an encouraged 6-m`in walking test (6MWT) is a high-intensity submaximal...critical walking speed; and (4) timed walking test at critical walking speed (CWS) to...

...complete a quarter-mile extended walking test were three times as likely to live...supports the use of the extended walking test as a baseline for human fitness...Tennessee. Their performance on the walking test was recorded every six months...

...complete a quarter-mile extended walking test were three times as likely to live...supports the use of the extended walking test as a baseline for human fitness...Tenn. Their performance on the walking test was recorded every six months and...