Navy recruits: Fitness measuring, validation, and norming

Military Medicine

Volumn 171, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 749-752

  Sekulic, Damir ^a   Males, Boris ^a   Miletic, Djurdjica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARMY PHYSICAL FITNESS TEST; ARTICLE; CROATIA; FITNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NAVY; NORMAL HUMAN; STANDARD; TRAINING; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 33746945986     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.171.8.749     Document Type: Article

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