Data and code for "The energetic cost of human standing balance and gait initiation over a range of natural postures"

This dataset contains experimental data, musculoskeletal simulation outputs, and analysis code supporting: Leeuwis et al., 2026 “The energetic cost of human standing balance and gait initiation over a range of natural postures.” Experiment 1: Quiet standing energetics Includes motion capture, ground reaction forces, electromyography, metabolic analyzer data, and OpenSim simulations. Experiment 2: Gait initiation energetics Includes motion capture, ground reaction forces, OpenSim simulations, and derived energetic estimates.

The repository contains the participant-averages used for statistical analysis in the manuscript, code for the reproduction of all figures, and provides time-synchronized timeseries data for all measurement systems.