The metabolic cost of force generation

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 623-629

  Sih, Bryant L ^a   Stuhmiller, James H ^a  

^a TITAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Cycling; Energetics; Locomotion; Metabolic rate; Muscle; Running

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CYCLING; ENERGY METABOLISM; EXERCISE; FAST MUSCLE; FAST MUSCLE FIBER; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE LENGTH; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; RUNNING; SKIING; SLOW MUSCLE; SLOW MUSCLE FIBER; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPORT; THEORETICAL MODEL; VELOCITY; WEIGHT BEARING;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; ENERGY METABOLISM; EXERCISE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS, FAST-TWITCH; MUSCLE FIBERS, SLOW-TWITCH; SPORTS; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 0037387346     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/01.MSS.0000058435.67376.49     Document Type: Article

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