Elite sprinting: Are athletes individually step-frequency or step-length reliant?

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1055-1062

  Salo, Aki I T ^a   Bezodis, Ian N ^b   Batterham, Alan M ^c   Kerwin, David G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Athletics; biomechanics; coaching; individual analysis; single subject; sprint running

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; HUMAN; MALE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; RUNNING; VIDEORECORDING;

ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; HUMANS; MALE; RUNNING; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 79957986346     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e318201f6f8     Document Type: Article

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