β-alanine supplementation improves YoYo intermittent recovery test performance

Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition

Volumn 9, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Saunders, Bryan ^a   Sunderland, Caroline ^a   Harris, Roger C ^b   Sale, Craig ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Junipa Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

alanine; Carnosine; Repeated sprint activity; Team sport specific exercise capacity; YoYo Intermittent recovery test

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865341266     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15502783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1550-2783-9-39     Document Type: Article

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