Age and gender interactions in physiological functional capacity: Insight from swimming performance

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 846-851

  Tanaka, Hirofumi ^a   Seals, Douglas R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; exercise mode specificity; gender difference

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUNNING; SEX DIFFERENCE; SWIMMING;

EID: 0031002538     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jappl.1997.82.3.846     Document Type: Article

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