Changes in cardiovascular performance during an 8-week military basic training period combined with added endurance or strength training

Military Medicine

Volumn 173, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1173-1179

  Santtila, Matti ^a,b   Keijo, Häkkinen ^b   Laura, Karavirta ^b   Heikki, Kyröläinen ^b,c  

^a Personnel Division of Defence Command   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^c NATIONAL DEFENCE UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; CARDIOVASCULAR PERFORMANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDURANCE; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; SOLDIER; TRAINING; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 57449093768     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.173.12.1173     Document Type: Article

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