Neuro-musculoskeletal and performance adaptations to lower-extremity plyometric training

Sports Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 859-895

  Markovic, Goran ^a   Mikulic, Pavle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Training

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ENDURANCE; FITNESS; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHY; LEG; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; LOWER EXTREMITY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; PHYSICAL FITNESS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 77956579714     PISSN: 01121642     EISSN: 11792035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/11318370-000000000-00000     Document Type: Article

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