A 20-yr longitudinal study of Olympic oarsmen

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1150-1156

  Hagerman, Fredrick C ^d   Fielding, Roger A ^b   Fiatarone, Maria A ^e   Gault, Janice A ^e   Kirkendall, Donald T ^c   Ragg, Kerry E ^d   Evans, William J ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

AEROBIC AND ANAEROBIC CAPACITIES; AGING ELITE ATHLETE; BODY COMPOSITION; CARDIORESPIRATORY FUNCTION

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID;

ADULT; AEROBIC CAPACITY; AGING; ANAEROBIC CAPACITY; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BODY COMPOSITION; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; ERGOMETRY; EXERCISE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUNG VENTILATION; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY;

EID: 0029830672     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005768-199609000-00011     Document Type: Article

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