Making weight in combat sports

Strength and Conditioning Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 25-39

  Langan Evans, Carl ^a   Close, Graeme L ^a   Morton, James P ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boxing; Dehydration; Energy restriction; Judo; Taekwondo; Wrestling

Indexed keywords

EID: 82955217160     PISSN: 15241602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1519/SSC.0b013e318231bb64     Document Type: Article

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