Monitoring training load and fatigue in rugby sevens players

Asian Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 175-184

  Elloumi, Mohamed ^a,b,c   Makni, Emna ^b   Moalla, Wassim ^b,d   Bouaziz, Taieb ^b   Tabka, Zouhair ^b   Lac, Gérard ^a   Chamari, Karim ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUSSE   (Tunisia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANOUBA   (Tunisia)

^d University of Sfax   (Tunisia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Performance; Rugby sevens; Score of fatigue; Training load

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876510978     PISSN: 2008000X     EISSN: 20087209     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5812/asjsm.34688     Document Type: Article

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