Quantifying movement demands of AFL football using GPS tracking

Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 531-536

  Wisbey, Ben ^a   Montgomery, Paul G ^a   Pyne, David B ^b,c   Rattray, Ben ^a  

^a Fitsense Australia   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF SPORT   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australian football; Exertion index; Fitness; Global positioning system; Movement patterns

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; FITNESS; FOOTBALL; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); RUNNING; VELOCITY;

EID: 77955655339     PISSN: 14402440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsams.2009.09.002     Document Type: Article

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