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This exchange is well documented at normal speeds but could break down at very slow speeds. We examined energy transduction through the phase shift between potential and kinetic energy in human walking at a wide range of speeds (0.1\u20132.0\u2005m\u2005s\u22121), specifically capturing very slow speeds (&amp;lt;0.6\u2005m\u2005s\u22121). We measured phase shift with two different methods. One method used two classical phase shifts of \u03b1 and \u03b2 from ( Cavagna and Legramandi, 2020). The second method utilized cross-correlation across each stride. We calculated phase shift from a human gait study and from two simple inverted pendulum-type walking models ( Srinivasan and Ruina, 2006; Rebula and Kuo, 2015). Participants walked at 13 prescribed speeds between 0.1 and 2.0\u2005m\u2005s\u22121 on a split belt instrumented treadmill. We found that phase shifts increased as speed decreased. However, at speeds slower than 0.3\u2005m\u2005s\u22121, the phase shifts approached zero. 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