Soccer players' muscular imbalances: Restoration with an isokinetic strength training program

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 151-159

  Gioftsidou, A ^a   Beneka, A ^a   Malliou, P ^a   Pafis, G ^a   Godolias, G ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUSCLE STRENGTH; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPORT; TEACHING;

ADULT; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SOCCER; TEACHING;

EID: 33751062858     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PMS.103.1.151-159     Document Type: Article

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