Does lifelong training temper age-related decline in sport performance? Interpreting differences between cross-sectional and longitudinal data

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 27-48

  Young, Bradley W ^a   Weir, Patricia L ^b   Starkes, Janet L ^c   Medic, Nikola ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LIFELONG LEARNING; PESSIMISM; RUNNING; SPORTING EVENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPERAMENT; TRAINING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH AMERICA; PHYSICAL FITNESS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RUNNING; TRACK AND FIELD;

ELAGATIS;

EID: 38149074168     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: 10964657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610730701761924     Document Type: Article

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