Título: | COMFORT ON ROAD BIKES FOR LONG DISTANCE RACES: AN ERGONOMICAL APPROACH | |||||||
Autor: |
RICARDO LINHARES |
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Colaborador(es): |
CLAUDIA RENATA MONT ALVAO BASTOS RODRIGUES - Orientador |
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Catalogação: | 15/DEZ/2006 | Língua(s): | PORTUGUESE - BRAZIL |
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Tipo: | TEXT | Subtipo: | THESIS | |||||
Notas: |
[pt] Todos os dados constantes dos documentos são de inteira responsabilidade de seus autores. Os dados utilizados nas descrições dos documentos estão em conformidade com os sistemas da administração da PUC-Rio. [en] All data contained in the documents are the sole responsibility of the authors. The data used in the descriptions of the documents are in conformity with the systems of the administration of PUC-Rio. |
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Referência(s): |
[pt] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=9390&idi=1 [en] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=9390&idi=2 |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.17771/PUCRio.acad.9390 | |||||||
Resumo: | ||||||||
Road Cycling is a sport that moves millions of people all
around the world, between
professionals, amateurs, and weekend enthusiasts. The
present literature shows that there
are humans costs associated with the positions cyclists
assume while riding. In Brazil
there´s very little literature about this subject, and it
is necessary to deepen up academic
research on this specific area of the sport. The research
assumes initially that athletes,
aiming for better results, end up leaving their own
comfort aside, and that generates
human costs that could be avoided. The research was
conducted during road cycling
races in different states of Brazil, where initially an
unsystematic observation of the
conditions of the cyclists was made. Then interviews were
made with six athletes. These
interviews generated a questionnaire that was applied to
twenty cyclists. Results found
show that human costs exists due to the material employed
by the cyclists during road
races, and that around seventy per cent of those
questioned suffer from constant pain
while cycling, specially in the lumbar area, the back, the
neck and the legs. The
information serves as a starting point to other researches
in areas like Industrial Design,
Ergonomics, Biomechanics and Sports Medicine.
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