RESEARCH PROJECT



A Joint Norwegian - U. S. Military Medical Research Project


The G2 Expedition, provides a unique opportunity to define currently unknown consequences of a world record sustained physical effort to physical performance capabilities. They agreed to be studied by a medical research team from the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine and the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment.

Information to be gained from this study includes:
  1. Effects of prolonged work on physical performance (specificity of training, detraining an "overtraining")
  2. The level of self - paced effort (energy expenditure) which can be sustained during such a prolonged effort
  3. Adequacy of 6.000 kcal/d to maintain body weight and performance in extended ground operations in the cold.
  4. Physical characteristics of successful elite performers (such as lean mass, strength, and aerobic capacity)

Baseline measurements included detailed analyses of the body composition by dual- energy x- ray absorptiometry, magnetic resonance imaging, and physical performance tests including power and speed strength. During the expedition, the two men dosed themselves at 3 time points with doubly-labelled water / heavy water and collected biological samples which allow precise calculation of energy expenditure rates. All the baseline tests were repeated few days after the end of the expedition.

Today there are no results to publish from the research project, but it will come. General the results before start of the expedition indicated that Rune and Torry had a very high strength and work capacities, exceeding the average fit male.

Results from two applied tests before the expedition:

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