What influences race performance in male open-water ultra-endurance swimmers: Anthropometry or training?

Human Movement

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 5-10

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

^a Gesundheitszentrum St Gallen   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

anthropometry; percent body fat; skin fold thickness; ultra endurance

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955257616     PISSN: 17323991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10038-009-0021-3     Document Type: Article

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