Is body fat a predictor of race time in female long-distance inline skaters?

Asian Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 131-136

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

^a not available   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Body fat; Physical endurance; Skating; Skinfold thickness; Training volume

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861404183     PISSN: 2008000X     EISSN: 20087209     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5812/asjsm.34853     Document Type: Article

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