Enhancing Performance: Maximal Power Versus Combined Weights and Plyometrics Training

Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 173-179

  Lyttle, Andrew D ^a   Wilson, Greg J ^a   Ostrowski, Karl J ^a  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Muscular assessment; Power training; Strength development

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030487702     PISSN: 10648011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1519/00124278-199608000-00008     Document Type: Article

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