No association of skin-fold thicknesses and training with race performance in male ultra-endurance runners in a 24-hour run

Journal of Human Sport and Exercise

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 94-100

  Knechtle, Beat ^a   Knechtle, Patrizia ^b   Rosemann, Thomas ^a  

^a Gesundheitszentrum St Gallen ^*  (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anthropometry; Body composition; Body fat; Performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865105506     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19885202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4100/jhse.2011.61.11     Document Type: Article

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