Optimal Peak Power in Relation to Age, Body Size, Gender, and Thigh Muscle Volume

Pediatric Exercise Science

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 406-418

  Santos, Amândio M C ^a   Armstrong, Neil ^a   De Ste Croix, Mark B A ^a   Sharpe, Peter ^a   Welsman, Joanne R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY GROWTH; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; GROWTH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE MASS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIMAL PEAK POWER; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; THIGH MUSCLE; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE;

EID: 0345305680     PISSN: 08998493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1123/pes.15.4.406     Document Type: Article

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