Static and Dynamic Acute Stretching Effect on Gymnasts' Speed in Vaulting

Pediatric Exercise Science

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 383-391

  Siatras, Theophanis ^a   Papadopoulos, Georgios ^a   Mameletzi, Dimitra ^a   Gerodimos, Vasilios ^a   Kellis, Spiros ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

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Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMIC EXERCISE; EXERCISE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; RUNNING; SCHOOL CHILD; STATIC EXERCISE; STRETCHING; VELOCITY;

EID: 0344011452     PISSN: 08998493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1123/pes.15.4.383     Document Type: Article

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