The relationship between selected body composition variables and muscular endurance in women

Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 272-277

  Esco, Michael R ^a   Olson, Michele S ^a   Williford, Henry N ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY AT MONTGOMERY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropometrics; Female athletes; Fitness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDURANCE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 77956987291     PISSN: 02701367     EISSN: 21683824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02701367.2010.10599675     Document Type: Article

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