Effect of a FastSkin™ suit on submaximal freestyle swimming

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 519-524

  Roberts, Benjamin S ^a   Kamel, Khaled S ^a   Hedrick, Clay E ^a   McLean, Scott P ^a   Sharp, Rick L ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active drag; Buoyancy; Oxygen uptake; Swimming economy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FORCE TRANSDUCER; FRICTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; METABOLISM; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; SURFACE TENSION; SWIMMING; SWIMSUIT; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY; WATER FLOW; BLOOD; BODY COMPOSITION; CLOTHING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING;

LACTIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; BODY COMPOSITION; CLOTHING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; LACTATES; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SWIMMING;

EID: 0037370488     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/01.MSS.0000053699.91683.CD     Document Type: Article

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