Effects of static stretching in warm-upon repeated sprint performance

Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2155-2162

  Sim, Aaron Y ^a   Dawson, Brian T ^a   Guelfi, Kym J ^a   Wallman, Karen E ^a   Young, Warren B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

Author keywords

Drills; Dynamic activities; Sprint time

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449375362     PISSN: 10648011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1519/JSC.0b013e3181b438f3     Document Type: Article

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