Cross‐Country Skiing: Effects of speed on temporal patterns in classical style and freestyle cross‐country skiing

Sports Biomechanics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 85-108

  Nilsson, Johnny ^a,b   Tveit, Per ^a   Eikrehagen, Olav ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF SPORT SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b SWEDISH SCHOOL OF SPORT AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cross country skiing; Cycle duration; Cycle length; Cycle rate; Phase duration; Relative duration; Speed adaptation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARM; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; LEG; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SKIING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ARM; BIOMECHANICS; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; SKIING; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 3142724678     PISSN: 14763141     EISSN: 17526116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14763140408522832     Document Type: Article

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