The association between flexibility and running economy in sub-elite male distance runners

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 737-743

  Craib, Mitchell W ^a,b   Mitchell, Vicki A ^a   Fields, Karl B ^a   Cooper, Theresa R ^a   Hopewell, Regina ^a   Morgan, Don W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^b GUILFORD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

DORSIFLEXION; STANDING EXTERNAL HIP ROTATION; SUBMAXIMAL AEROBIC DEMAND

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; JOINT MOBILITY; JOINT STABILITY; MALE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; RELIABILITY; RUNNING; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

ADULT; BACK; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MOVEMENT; MUSCULOSKELETAL PHYSIOLOGY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; RUNNING;

EID: 0029975171     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005768-199606000-00012     Document Type: Article

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