Adding weights can simulate Earth-like gravitational resistance for walking on the Moon.
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Adding weights or resistance devices during lunar locomotion successfully replicates Earth-like mechanical loading, muscle activation, and metabolic costs.
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Horizontal running inside circular walls of Moon settlements: a comprehensive countermeasure for low-gravity deconditioning?
2024 · cited by 5
Paper [3] demonstrates that applying extra mechanical loads (such as bungee unloading to simulate lunar gravity while running) can successfully restore Earth-like physiological demands and peak forces.
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A Resistive Soft Robotic Exosuit for Dynamic Body Loading in Hypogravity.
2025 · cited by 2
Paper [6] shows that adding programmed resistance via a wearable exosuit in simulated Moon gravity successfully increases metabolic cost and muscle activation to match Earth levels.