Kenyan dominance in distance running

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 161-170

  Larsen, Henrik B ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Energy cost; Fractional utilization of V O2max; Kenyan runners; Muscle; Trainability; V O2max

Indexed keywords

3 HYDROXYACYL COENZYME A DEHYDROGENASE; AMMONIA; CITRATE SYNTHASE; LACTIC ACID; OXIDOREDUCTASE; OXYGEN;

ATHLETE; BODY MASS; CAPILLARY DENSITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HUMAN; KENYA; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LEG MUSCLE; MARATHON RUNNER; MUSCLE MITOCHONDRION; MUSCLE TRAINING; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL STRESS; REVIEW; RUNNING; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SLOW MUSCLE FIBER; SPORTS MEDICINE;

ELAGATIS;

EID: 0142011216     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(03)00227-7     Document Type: Review

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