'Psyching-up' and muscular force production

Sports Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 47-58

  Tod, David ^a   Iredale, Fiona ^b   Gill, Nicholas ^b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b WAIKATO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; AROUSAL; ATHLETE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; GRIP STRENGTH; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE; WEIGHT LIFTING;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; EXERCISE; EXERTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX FACTORS; SPORTS; SPORTS MEDICINE;

EID: 0037230479     PISSN: 01121642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00007256-200333010-00004     Document Type: Review

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