Relationship between fundamental movement skills and body mass index in 7-to-8 year-old children

World Applied Sciences Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1354-1360

  Siahkouhian, Marefat ^a   Mahmoodi, Hiva ^a   Salehi, Masoud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MOHAGHEGH ARDABILI   (Iran)

Author keywords

Body Composition; Body mass index; Fundamental movement skills; Locomotor skills; Object control skills

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856186993     PISSN: 18184952     EISSN: 19916426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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