Using session-RPE to monitor training load in swimmers

Strength and Conditioning Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 72-76

  Wallace, Lee ^a   Coutts, Aaron ^a   Bell, Jon ^a   Simpson, Narelle ^a   Slattery, Katie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aquatic exercise; Monitoring training; Periodization; Quantifying training; Swimming

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649938969     PISSN: 15241602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1519/SSC.0b013e31818eed5f     Document Type: Article

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