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Table 2. Controlled activities performed while wearing hip- and wrist-worn accelerometers

Order	Task	Description
1	Lying quietly	Laying supine on a plinth
2	Keyboarding	Type the Declaration of Independence (hard copy provided) in a Word document on a desktop computer
3	Window washing (simulated)	Whiteboard erasing of a 1.2 × 2.4 m (4 × 8 ft) whiteboard using the dominant hand was used to simulate window washing
4	Sweeping†	Using a standard broom, participants swept confetti into a pile and then using a dustpan, placed the confetti into a garbage bag
5	Over-ground walking†	At a self-selected velocity, participants walked 350 m (1,145 ft) through hallways. Mean walking speed was calculated (distance/time)
6	Ascending stairs	Walked up 7 flights of stairs at a comfortable pace, minimal handrail use. The mean climbing speed calculated
7	Descending stairs	Walked down 7 flights of stairs at a comfortable pace, with minimal handrail use. The mean descending speed calculated
8	Modified Bruce protocol (MBP) stages 1–5	Subjects progressed from Stages 1 through 5 as tolerated without rests; subjects were discouraged from using handrails unless necessary Stage conditions: Stage 1: 2.74 km/h (1.7 mph), 0% incline Stage 2: 2.74 km/h (1.7 mph), 5% incline Stage 3: 2.74 km/h (1.7 mph), 10% incline Stage 4: 4.0 km/h (2.5 mph), 12% incline Stage 5: 5.5 km/h (3.4 mph), 14% incline
9	Sitting in a chair	Between treadmill activities, sat quietly in a chair
10	Treadmill walking†	4.8 km/h (3 mph), 0% incline
11	Treadmill jogging	8.0 km/h (5 mph), 0% incline
12	Treadmill running 1	Subjects ran at their choice of 9.7, 11.3, or 12.9 km/h (6, 7, or 8 mph) (if they felt comfortable doing so), with 0% incline
13	Treadmill running 2	Subjects ran at their choice of 14.5 or 16.1 km/h (9 or 10 mph) (if they felt comfortable doing so), with 0% incline

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†: performed tasks again after 1st 17 tasks in the following order: treadmill walking, followed by overground walking, and lastly sweeping

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to acknowledge the efforts of several graduate students in the collection of this data: Henry Byl; Lauren Fleener; Krista Hannasch; Taylor Helms; Nathan Kleckner; Josh Krutsinger; Garrett McGrane; Michael Mueller; Rebecca Spitz; Brittany Treichler; Daniel Vogel; Abe Ward; Leigha Yerk. In addition, salary support for SLM was provide by the U.S. Army. Any citations of commercial organizations and trade names in this article do not constitute an official Department of the Army or DoD endorsement of approval of the products or services of these organizations.

Author contributions

LAFL: Conceptualization, Investigation, Formal analysis, Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing, Supervision. SLM: Investigation, Writing—review & editing. DD: Validation, Writing—review & editing, Supervision. KAS: Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing—review & editing. All authors read and approved the submitted version.

Conflicts of interest

Prof. Laura A. Frey-Law who is an Associate Editor of Exploration of Musculoskeletal Diseases had no involvement in the decision-making or the review process of this manuscript. The other authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

Ethical approval

The study was approved by the University of Iowa Biomedical Institutional Review Board (201412729).

Consent to participate

Written informed consent to participate in the study was obtained from all participants.

Consent to publication

Not applicable.

Availability of data and materials

Data is available upon request to the corresponding author, LAFL.

Funding

While this study was not directly supported by external funding, support for REDCap was possible through funding by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number [UM1TR004403]. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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