The purposes of this study were to determine: (1) the method of measuring and analyzingthe movement intensity and capacity in human locomotion by accelerorneters; (2) therelationships between speed, distance and the accelerometer signal; (3) the difference of theaccelerometer signals between waist and knee; (4) the difference of the movement intensityand capacity in different locomotion. Three repetitive trials of six subjects in differentlocomotion were evaluated. Two tri-axial accelerometers were attached on the right tibia2-cm under the knee and the back waist of 4th to 5th lumbar vertebrae. After setting thespeed of the treadmill, subjects performed different types of locomotion including slow walk(v=1.2 m/s), fast walk (v=1.8m/s), jog (v=3.0m/s) and run (v=4.0m/s). After the treadmillkept in stable speed, the Biopac system started to record the signals of both accelerometersfor 10 seconds (Sampling rate is 1000 Hz). Acqknowledge 3.5 was used to determine theranges as well as the root-mean-square of absolute integral (RMSAI) from the accelerometersignals on both knee and waist. It showed that the impact vibration on the waist is smaller compared to the knee and theratio of the values is about 0.54. Furthermore, significant differences were found in theranges and the RMSAI of accelerometer signals among different locomotion as expected.More importantly. High correlation wwre found between speeds and all the ranges ofaccelerometer signals. Among all the ranges, the superior-inferior axis on the waist has thehighest correlation coefficient (r=.88). In the same way, high correlation were found betweenthe distances and the RMSAI of both accelerometer signals. Thus, we are confident that therange in superior-inferior axis and the RMSAI of the accelerometer signals on the waist couldbe used as the indexes of movement intensity and movement capacity in the humanlocomotion, respectively. In the future, we hope to obtain more quantitative agreement byattaching a portable accelerometer on the back waist to representing the movement intensityand capacity.