Effect of goal difficulty, goal specificity and duration of practice time intervals on muscular endurance performance

Journal of Sports Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 125-135

  Bar Eli, Michael ^a,c   Tenenbaum, Gershon ^b   Pie, Joan S ^c   Btesh, Yaacov ^c   Almog, Asher ^c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c WINGATE INSTITUTE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Goal difficulty; Goal specificity; Goal setting; Muscular endurance performance

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDURANCE; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTIVATION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; TIME;

EID: 0030962364     PISSN: 02640414     EISSN: 1466447X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/026404197367407     Document Type: Article

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