Twenty-year follow-up of aerobic power and body composition of older track athletes

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1508-1516

  Pollock, Michael L ^a,b   Mengelkoch, Larry J ^a   Graves, James E ^a   Lowenthal, David T ^a   Limacher, Marian C ^a   Foster, Carl ^a   Wilmore, Jack H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; bone mineral density; maximal oxygen uptake; weight training

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AEROBIC CAPACITY; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; BONE DENSITY; BONE MINERAL; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUNG FUNCTION; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAINING;

EID: 0030925226     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jappl.1997.82.5.1508     Document Type: Article

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