Aging performance for masters records in athletics, swimming, rowing, cycling, triathlon, and weightlifting

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 453-477

  Baker, A Barry ^a   Tang, Yong Q ^a  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; AUSTRALIA; BICYCLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENDURANCE; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPORT; STANDARD; SWIMMING; TASK PERFORMANCE; WEIGHT LIFTING;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; AUSTRALIA; BICYCLING; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; SEX FACTORS; SPORTS; SWIMMING; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TRACK AND FIELD; WEIGHT LIFTING;

EID: 77956927471     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: 10964657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0361073X.2010.507433     Document Type: Article

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