Walking for fitness: Is it enough to maintain both heart and bone health?

Australian Journal of Primary Health

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 86-88

  Waddington, G ^a   Dickson, T ^a   Trathen, S ^a   Adams, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

accelerations; cardiovascular fitness

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ACCELEROMETRY; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BONE DENSITY; CARDIOVASCULAR PERFORMANCE; CLIMBING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FITNESS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PILOT STUDY; WALKING; WALKING SPEED;

AGED; AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; ERGOMETRY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OSTEOPOROSIS; PHYSICAL EXERTION; PHYSICAL FITNESS; WALKING;

EID: 79952962751     PISSN: 14487527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/PY10035     Document Type: Article

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