Characteristics of body composition and muscle strength in college Sumo wrestlers

International Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 510-515

  Kanehisa, H ^a   Kondo, M ^b   Ikegawa, S ^c   Fukunaga, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Tokyo Metropolitan Coll   (Japan)

Author keywords

B mode ultrasound; Fat free mass; Heavy weight athletes; Isokinetic force; Muscle cross sectional area

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; B SCAN; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELBOW; ELBOW FLEXION; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNEE; MALE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; WRESTLING;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARM; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; ELBOW; ELBOW JOINT; ERGOMETRY; HUMANS; JAPAN; KNEE; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; THIGH; UNIVERSITIES; WRESTLING;

EID: 0030708879     PISSN: 01724622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-972673     Document Type: Article

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