Effect of Additional Weight on Stability of Human Squat Exercise

Author

Jose De Jesus Galarza Lozano, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Date of Award

8-2021

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department

Mechanical Engineering

First Advisor

Dr. Dumitru I. Caruntu

Second Advisor

Dr. Alley Butler

Third Advisor

Dr. Robert Freeman

Abstract

The main focus of the study is to analyze the stability of the squat exercise. The squat is a common exercise that persons do for exercise. The study analyze the time series of the normal component of the ground reaction forces and each coordinate of the center of pressure. Theses time series are used to estimate the Lyapunov Exponents using Rosenstein method. MATLAB from Mathworks is used to calculate the graphs and program the methods. We compare this result with the literature and previous experiments. This work gives more information relating the safety of the squat exercise when adding additional weight.

Comments

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Recommended Citation

Galarza Lozano, Jose De Jesus, "Effect of Additional Weight on Stability of Human Squat Exercise" (2021). Theses and Dissertations. 864.
https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/etd/864