Does the twenty meter shuttle-run test elicit maximal effort in 11- to 16-year-olds?

Pediatric Exercise Science

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 55-62

  Voss, Christine ^a   Sandercock, Gavin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEFENSE MECHANISM; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LABORATORY; MALE; PERFORMANCE; RUNNING; SCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 63849201543     PISSN: 08998493     EISSN: 15432920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1123/pes.21.1.55     Document Type: Article

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