Exercise testing elite young athletes

Medicine and Sport Science

Volumn 56, Issue , 2010, Pages 106-125

  Barker, Alan R ^a   Armstrong, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; CHILD; EXERCISE TEST; FITNESS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPORT;

ADOLESCENT; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; CHILD; EXERCISE TEST; HUMANS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL FITNESS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPORTS;

EID: 78751559379     PISSN: 02545020     EISSN: 16622812     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000320642     Document Type: Article

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