Evaluation of an upper-body strength test for the cross-country skiing sprint

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1160-1169

  Stöggl, Thomas ^a,b,c   Lindinger, Stefan ^a,b   Müller, Erich ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE FOR MICROELECTRONICS   (Austria)

^c Department of Sport Science and Kinesiology ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

Double poling; Maximal speed; Power; Predictors; Rollerboard

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BODY BUILD; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENDURANCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SKIING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRENGTH; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; TIME; TRAINING; VALIDITY; VELOCITY;

ADULT; AUSTRIA; EXERCISE TEST; EXERTION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RUNNING; SKIING; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 34347348251     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/mss.0b013e3180537201     Document Type: Article

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