Acute effect of alternating heavy and light resistances on power output during upper-body complex power training

Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 493-497

  Baker, Daniel ^a  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bench throw; Contrast loading; Neural bench press; Strength

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; EXERCISE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EXERCISE; FOOTBALL; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING; THORAX; WEIGHT LIFTING;

EID: 0141517212     PISSN: 10648011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1519/1533-4287(2003)017<0493:AEOAHA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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