Training in the aging athlete

Current Sports Medicine Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 200-206

  Foster, Carl ^a   Wright, Glenn ^b   Battista, Rebecca A ^b   Porcari, John P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN LA CROSSE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ATHLETE; BODY COMPOSITION; COMPETITION; DNA DAMAGE; ENDURANCE; EXERCISE; HUMAN; MUSCLE ATROPHY; PERFORMANCE; REVIEW; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPORTING EVENT; TRAINING;

AGING; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; BODY COMPOSITION; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING;

EID: 34250652331     PISSN: 1537890X     EISSN: 15378918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11932-007-0029-4     Document Type: Review

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