Physiological, biomechanical and anthropometrical predictors of sprint swimming performance in adolescent swimmers

Journal of Sports Science and Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 398-404

  Lätt, Evelin ^a   Jürimäe, Jaak ^a   Mäestu, Jarek ^a   Purge, Priit ^a   Rämson, Raul ^a   Haljaste, Kaja ^a   Keskinen, Kari L ^b   Rodriguez, Ferran A ^c   Jürimäe, Toivo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b Finnish Society of Sport Sciences   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Energy cost; Front crawl; Oxygen uptake; Stroke index

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958066908     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13032968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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