Should endurance athletes supplement their training program with resistance training to improve performance?

Strength and Conditioning Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 50-55

  Laursen, Paul B ^a   Chiswell, Sheree E ^b   Callaghan, Jessica A ^a  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

Author keywords

Endurance; Performance; Resistance training; Strength training

Indexed keywords

EID: 27644579127     PISSN: 15241602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1519/00126548-200510000-00008     Document Type: Review

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