Cycle Ergometry Estimation of Physical Fitness among Israeli Soldiers

Military Medicine

Volumn 169, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 217-220

  Huerta, Michael ^a   Grotto, Itamar ^a   Shemla, Samuel ^a   Ashkenazi, Isaac ^a   Shpilberg, Ofer ^a   Kark, Jeremy D ^b  

^a MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

^b HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BICYCLE ERGOMETRY; CIGARETTE SMOKING; ERGOMETRY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FITNESS; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MALE; MILITARY MEDICINE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; SOLDIER;

EID: 1542409114     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.169.3.217     Document Type: Article

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