Impact of body weight on performance of a weight-supported motor fitness test in men

Military Medicine

Volumn 173, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1108-1114

  Bishop, Phillip A ^a   Crowder, Todd A ^b   Fielitz, Lynn R ^b   Lindsay, Timothy R ^c   Woods, Amanda K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AEROBIC CAPACITY; ANAEROBIC CAPACITY; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; COHORT ANALYSIS; FITNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE EXERCISE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SKINFOLD THICKNESS;

EID: 56049084663     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.173.11.1108     Document Type: Article

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