Muscle strength and endurance do not significantly vary across 3 phases of the menstrual cycle in moderately active premenopausal women

Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 238-241

  Fridén, Cecilia ^a,b   Hirschberg, Angelica Lidén ^b   Saartok, Tönu ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Estrogen; Hormones; Muscle performance; Progesterone

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDURANCE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISOKINETIC EXERCISE; LUTEAL PHASE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; OVULATION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNIVERSITY; URINE LEVEL;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COHORT STUDIES; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; LUTEAL PHASE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULOSKELETAL PHYSIOLOGY; OVULATION; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; PHYSICAL FITNESS; PROGESTERONE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0041672195     PISSN: 1050642X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00042752-200307000-00007     Document Type: Article

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