Age, training, and previous experience predict race performance in long-distance inline skaters, not anthropometry

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 141-156

  Knechtle, Beat ^a   Knechtle, Patrizia ^b   Rüst, Christoph Alexander ^a   Rosemann, Thomas ^a   Lepers, Romuald ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Gesundheitszentrum St Gallen ^*  (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADULT; AGE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; ENDURANCE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL EDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; SPORT;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANTHROPOMETRY; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); SKATING; SKINFOLD THICKNESS;

EID: 84861373279     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: 1558688X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/05.PMS.114.1.141-156     Document Type: Article

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