Reliability and accuracy of handheld stopwatches compared with electronic timing in measuring sprint performance

Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1969-1976

  Hetzler, Ronald K ^a   Stickley, Christopher D ^a   Lundquist, Kelly M ^a   Kimura, Iris F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Infrared timers; Split times; Timing correction; Timing precision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RUNNING; TIME;

ADULT; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RUNNING; SPORTS EQUIPMENT; TIME;

EID: 61949282483     PISSN: 10648011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1519/JSC.0b013e318185f36c     Document Type: Article

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