Effects of hatha yoga practice on the health-related aspects of physical fitness

Preventive Cardiology

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 165-170

  Tran, Mark D ^a   Holly, Robert G ^a   Lashbrook, Jake ^a   Amsterdam, Ezra A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; ELBOW FLEXION; ENDURANCE; FEMALE; FITNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNEE FUNCTION; LUNG FUNCTION; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; YOGA;

EID: 0034753455     PISSN: 1520037X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1520-037X.2001.00542.x     Document Type: Article

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