Influence of the psoas major and thigh muscularity on 100-m times in junior sprinters

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2138-2143

  Hoshikawa, Yoshihiro ^a   Muramatsu, Masataka ^a   Iida, Tomomi ^a   Uchiyama, Akiko ^a   Nakajima, Yoshiharu ^a   Kanehisa, Hiroaki ^b   Fukunaga, Tetsuo ^c  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Body composition; Cross sectional area; Gender difference; Running speed; Track and field athletes

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENDER; HAMSTRING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERFORMANCE; PSOAS MUSCLE; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RUNNING; THIGH; VELOCITY;

ACCELERATION; ADOLESCENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RUNNING; SEX FACTORS; THIGH;

EID: 33845367567     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/01.mss.0000233804.48691.45     Document Type: Article

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