Participation in community-based sport skills learning programmes, physical activity recommendations and health-related fitness for children in Greece

Sport Sciences for Health

Volumn 6, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 93-102

  Dimitriou, Martina ^a   Michalopoulou, Maria ^a   Gourgoulis, Vassilios ^a   Aggelousis, Nikolaos ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Fitnessgram; Healthrelated fitness; Pedometry; Sport skills; Youth

Indexed keywords

EID: 80155151791     PISSN: 18247490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11332-011-0103-4     Document Type: Article

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