Personal best time, percent body fat, and training are differently associated with race time for male and female ironman triathletes

Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 62-68

  Knechtle, Beat ^a   Wirth, Andrea ^a   Baumann, Barbara ^a   Knechtle, Patrizia ^a   Rosemann, Thomas ^b  

^a St Gallen Health Center   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Gender; Race experience; Ultraendurance

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BICYCLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; RUNNING; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SWIMMING; SWITZERLAND; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME;

ACCELERATION; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; BICYCLING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RUNNING; SEX FACTORS; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; SWIMMING; SWITZERLAND; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77950113747     PISSN: 02701367     EISSN: 21683824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02701367.2010.10599628     Document Type: Article

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