Development of a baseball-specific battery of tests and a testing protocol for college baseball players

Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1051-1058

  Kohmura, Yoshimitsu ^a   Aoki, Kazuhiro ^a   Yoshigi, Hiroshi ^a   Sakuraba, Keishoku ^a   Yanagiya, Toshio ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Batting; Evaluation of baseball performance; Fielding; Multiple regression; Partial correlation; Running

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; BASEBALL; EXERCISE TEST; FITNESS; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; BASEBALL; EXERCISE TEST; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICAL FITNESS;

EID: 51249121889     PISSN: 10648011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1519/JSC.0b013e31816eb4ef     Document Type: Article

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