Jumping capacity of athletes engaged in various sports

Biology of Sport

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 253-263

  Skurvydas, A ^a  

^a LITHUANIAN SPORTS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Adaptive specificity; Jumping; Muscle mechanics; Stretch shortening cycle

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001681884     PISSN: 0860021X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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