Ratio scaling of V̇O2(max) penalizes women with larger percent body fat, not lean body mass

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1204-1208

  Vanderburgh, Paul M ^a   Katch, Frank I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

ALLOMETRY; POWER FUNCTION RATIOS; THEORY OF SIMILARITY

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY DENSITY; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; CALORIMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; LUNG VENTILATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREADMILL EXERCISE; ADIPOSE TISSUE; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY WEIGHT; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION;

EID: 0029658257     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005768-199609000-00019     Document Type: Article

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