Alternating consecutive maximum contractions as a test of muscle function

Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1605-1615

  Bozic, Predrag ^a,b   Suzovic, Dejan ^a   Nedeljkovic, Aleksandar ^a   Jaric, Slobodan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b Republic Institute for Sport   (Serbia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

force; Isometric; Knee; Reliability; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE TEST; HUMAN; KNEE; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

EXERCISE TEST; HUMANS; KNEE; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960105185     PISSN: 10648011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1519/JSC.0b013e3181ddfd0a     Document Type: Article

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