Evaluation of Margaria staircase test: The effect of body size

European Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 115-120

  Nedeljkovic, Aleksandar ^a   Mirkov, Dragan M ^a   Pazin, Nemanja ^a   Jaric, Slobodan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Allometric; Body mass; Muscle power; Normalization; Scaling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CALCULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MODEL; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGING; ALGORITHMS; ANAEROBIOSIS; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; ENERGY METABOLISM; EXERCISE TEST; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 34249281312     PISSN: 14396319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00421-007-0401-3     Document Type: Article

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