Impact of body size on women's military obstacle course performance

Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation

Volumn 34, Issue , 1997, Pages 357-362

  Kusano, Maile A ^a   Vanderburgh, Paul M ^a   Bishop, Phillip ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allometric scaling

Indexed keywords

ABILITY TESTING; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

BODY SIZE; INDOOR OBSTACLE COURSE TEST (IOCT); PHYSICAL FITNESS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

ADULT; ARMY; BODY FAT; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FITNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PHYSICAL FITNESS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031399620     PISSN: 00678856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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