Strength gains following different combined concentric and eccentric exercise regimens

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 342-347

  Hilliard Robertson, P C ^a,b   Schneider, S M ^b   Bishop, Sheryl L ^a,c   Guilliams, M E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^c University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Countermeasures; Exercise; Muscle loss

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONCENTRIC MUSCLE CONTRACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; ECCENTRIC MUSCLE CONTRACTION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; ISOKINETIC EXERCISE; LEG; MALE; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; SPACE FLIGHT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRAINING;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

ADULT; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0347926157     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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