Adding weights can simulate Earth-like gravitational resistance for walking on the Moon.
Adding weights or resistance devices during lunar locomotion successfully replicates Earth-like mechanical loading, muscle activation, and metabolic costs.
The provided literature (specifically papers [3] and [6]) indicates that countermeasures involving additional mechanical loading or resistive suits effectively simulate Earth-like physical and metabolic demands for walking or running under reduced lunar gravity.
Minetti AE, Luciano F, Natalucci V, Pavei G. Horizontal running inside circular walls of Moon settlements: a comprehensive countermeasure for low-gravity deconditioning?. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.231906
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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Pulvirenti E, Diteesawat RS, Pavei G, Natalucci V, Hauser H, Minetti A, Rossiter J. A Resistive Soft Robotic Exosuit for Dynamic Body Loading in Hypogravity.. 2025. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202506057
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.
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