Endurance training and elite young athletes

Medicine and Sport Science

Volumn 56, Issue , 2010, Pages 59-83

  Armstrong, Neil ^a   Barker, Alan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; BLOOD; CHILD; ENDURANCE; FEMALE; FITNESS; HUMAN; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL EDUCATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LACTATES; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; PHYSICAL FITNESS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 78751472596     PISSN: 02545020     EISSN: 16622812     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000320633     Document Type: Article

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