Interaction of Step Length and Step Rate during Sprint Running

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 261-271

  Hunter, Joseph P ^a   Marshall, Robert N ^a,b   McNair, Peter J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b EASTERN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

^c AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Ground reaction impulse; Negative interaction; Stride length; Stride rate

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; RUNNING; VELOCITY;

ADULT; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RUNNING;

EID: 0842324934     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/01.MSS.0000113664.15777.53     Document Type: Article

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