The Development of a High Intensity Dance Performance Fitness Test

Journal of Dance Medicine and Science

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 3-9

  Redding, Emma ^a   Weller, Peter ^c   Ehrenberg, Shantel ^a   Irvine, Sarah ^a   Quin, Edel ^a   Rafferty, Sonia ^a   Wyon, Matthew ^b   Cox, Carol ^c  

^a Laban   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DANCING; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FITNESS; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DANCING; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL EXERTION; PHYSICAL FITNESS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 66849102021     PISSN: 1089313X     EISSN: 23748060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1089313X0901300101     Document Type: Article

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