The dancer as a performing athlete: Physiological considerations

Sports Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 651-661

  Koutedakis, Yiannis ^a,b   Jamurtas, Athanasios ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; FERRITIN; GONADORELIN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; HYDROCORTISONE; IRON; OXYGEN; SOMATOMEDIN;

AEROBIC CAPACITY; ATHLETE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; BONE DENSITY; BONE MINERAL; BURNOUT; CALORIC INTAKE; CHOREOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DANCING; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; ERYTHROCYTE VOLUME; EXERCISE; FITNESS; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; INJURY; IRON BINDING CAPACITY; JOINT MOBILITY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MEGALOCYTOSIS; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; MUSCLE STRENGTH; OVEREXERTION; PERFORMANCE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SKILL;

ATHLETIC INJURIES; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY CONSTITUTION; CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGY; DANCING; ENERGY INTAKE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL PHYSIOLOGIC PROCESSES; SPORTS;

EID: 4644362658     PISSN: 01121642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00007256-200434100-00003     Document Type: Review

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