No association between skinfold thicknesses and race performance in male ultra-endurance cyclists in a 600 km ultra-cycling marathon

Human Movement

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 91-95

  Knechtle, Beat ^a,b   Knechtle, Patrizia ^a   Rosemann, Thomas ^b  

^a Gesundheitszentrum St Gallen   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anthropometry; Body fat; Ultra endurance

Indexed keywords

EID: 77049114023     PISSN: 17323991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10038-009-0018-y     Document Type: Article

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