The changing shape characteristics associated with success in world-class sprinters

Journal of Sports Sciences

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1085-1095

  Watts, Adam S ^a   Coleman, Iain ^a   Nevill, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

body composition; body mass index; reciprocal ponderal index; Sprint running

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LEG; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; RUNNING; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOMATOTYPE;

ADULT; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ORGAN SIZE; RUNNING; SOMATOTYPES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864535764     PISSN: 02640414     EISSN: 1466447X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02640414.2011.588957     Document Type: Article

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