Sex differences in association of race performance, skin-fold thicknesses, and training variables for recreational half-marathon runners

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 653-668

  Knechtle, Beat ^a   Knechtle, Patrizia ^b   Rosemann, Thomas ^a   Senn, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Gesundheitszentrum ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FITNESS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RECREATION; RUNNING; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; STATISTICS; SWITZERLAND; TIME;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL FITNESS; RECREATION; RUNNING; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; SWITZERLAND; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79952531712     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: 1558688X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/05.25.PMS.111.6.653-668     Document Type: Article

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