Correlations of anthropometric and body composition variables with the performance of young elite weightlifters

Journal of Human Kinetics

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 125-131

  Siahkouhian, Marefat ^a   Hedayatneja, Meysam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MOHAGHEGH ARDABILI   (Iran)

Author keywords

Body mass index; clean jerk; cormic index; snatch; weightlifters

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958004742     PISSN: 16405544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10078-010-0040-3     Document Type: Article

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